I remember when the neighborhood women hung laundry out in their backyards to dry. We had several tall poles with bars to attach the clothes lines. When taking down the lines after the clothes and sheets had dried (smelled so fresh) the women would quickly loop the lines back and forth from the fork between thumb and index finger down to the elbow. Where I live now, t’s against some ordinance to hang clothes outside that way.
I remember during the 70s or early 80s when some clever person offered a “Solar-powered clothes dryer” for sale. It consisted of a length of clothes line and several clothes pins.
Clean sheets in the sun and wind indicate hygenic humans to me! No bed bugs! Also UV light from the sun kills bacteria, herpes and other virus’s. I would be suspicious of a homeowners group that DIDN’T endorse clotheslines..Clothes lines in the basement in the winter & spriing were not as fun tho… rose must have a huge , clear basement! sigh..envy…
In Ontario it was illegal to hang your clothes outside, because it was ‘unsightly’. Then they got smart and realized how eco friendly it is, and changed their stance.
Most neighborhoods that ban clotheslines do so because they are only used by “Those Kinds of People”..Never mind Who “Those Kinds of People” are.
They just don’t “Like” them..No matter how much we deny it, Americans are lonely for the European system of “Upper” & “Lower” class people. Every neighborhood has to have Someone who “Doesn’t Belong”..
emptc12 almost 9 years ago
I remember when the neighborhood women hung laundry out in their backyards to dry. We had several tall poles with bars to attach the clothes lines. When taking down the lines after the clothes and sheets had dried (smelled so fresh) the women would quickly loop the lines back and forth from the fork between thumb and index finger down to the elbow. Where I live now, t’s against some ordinance to hang clothes outside that way.
cb795 almost 9 years ago
I remember during the 70s or early 80s when some clever person offered a “Solar-powered clothes dryer” for sale. It consisted of a length of clothes line and several clothes pins.
Comic Minister Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Oh yeah!!
visualeyes almost 9 years ago
Clean sheets in the sun and wind indicate hygenic humans to me! No bed bugs! Also UV light from the sun kills bacteria, herpes and other virus’s. I would be suspicious of a homeowners group that DIDN’T endorse clotheslines..Clothes lines in the basement in the winter & spriing were not as fun tho… rose must have a huge , clear basement! sigh..envy…
QueenNefertiri almost 9 years ago
In Ontario it was illegal to hang your clothes outside, because it was ‘unsightly’. Then they got smart and realized how eco friendly it is, and changed their stance.
Tarredandfeathered almost 9 years ago
Most neighborhoods that ban clotheslines do so because they are only used by “Those Kinds of People”..Never mind Who “Those Kinds of People” are.
They just don’t “Like” them..No matter how much we deny it, Americans are lonely for the European system of “Upper” & “Lower” class people. Every neighborhood has to have Someone who “Doesn’t Belong”..