Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for September 02, 2009

if you aren’t wearing shorts, who’ll notice?

as for the clothes, he’d probably be safer hanging up a clothes line.

Susan: Ahh! Only in the land of the Free!

My condo would rather we pollute the atmosphere than display our undies on a line

Fer some reason, I see Adam involved in ANOTHER type of “cook-out”!

It shouldn’t be a hard thing to do, but since it is Adam, I see burned to a crisp laundry coming up.

Susan001 said, about 4 hours ago

I believe that some towns have ordanances prohibiting line-drying as a blight to the environment. Maybe Adam’s town is one of those.

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Oh come on! That’s really going too far!

Macush: Even my mobile home park prohibits line drying, as does every home owners’ association in metro Phoenix.

“blight” to the environment has to be purely in visual terms, since clothes dryers are the number one energy suck in household appliance use.

It’s totally ridiculous that Phoenix would have anti-line-drying rules when they have the ideal climate for drying in a minimum of time, after which they’d be pulled in out of the sight of the offended!

When the weather is nice I always hang out my bed linens. Nothing feels better than crawling into bed at night with that fresh air smell.

a town where i lived in California had a new sub division built and some of the rules in place included, no line drying, no above utilities(electric/ telephone wires) and absolutely NO satellite dishes.

@Bald716, what were people supposed to do instead? I know you can use an electric dryer, and you can bury the wiring underground (there are good reasons for burying the wiring), but what can you substitute for satellite dishes?

Please forgive, I am technologically challenged…

The first time I ever heard of forbidding line drying was in Doonesbury, when his mother was being hassled for hanging her laundry outdoors. I thought Garry Trudeau was joking, exaggerating to make a point - I had never heard of such a thing myself. Then I discovered that he was describing something that did actually happen! I was shocked!

In a way I still am shocked, that people can make a fuss over such things. We had an incident recently where an immigrant wanted to celebrate something his country had done (say, win a cup in soccer - I don’t remember the details). He was Greek. So he painted a big Greek flag on his garage door. The fuss that ensued! The furore! The narrowness of mind!

all utilities and cable was buried , so pretty much because of the regulation the residents were slaves to the cable company i’m glad i didn’t stay there

How the mighty have fallen.

There are many places like Susan mentions - all sorts of restrictions on outside displays spelled out before you ever move in. Some say no holiday displays, or no flags, or no outdoor TV antennas, no boats or RVs, or anything you can think of that someone in the association might not care for. Clotheslines are no longer a welcome sight in newer USA areas.

I still have an old washtub and a scrub board. Although I don’t use them I figure to keep them in case of emergency.

This nation (USA) is getting crazier and crazier with wanting to control everything we do or say. This is why I love living in the country. No covenents no home owners associtaions, no body telling me what to do with MY house and land. I don’t like seeing pink flamingos in someone else yard, but hey this is America; not China; it’s not my place to tell them what they can do with their yard. BTY did everyone see how the ping pong champ of China is finally allowed to date someone. He’s 25 they said, so now he is old enough to date. This is where we are heading if we don’t start speaking out.

They must have a new guy in the wings to allow the champ to be so distracted by dating. He won’t have the frustration factor driving his aggression.