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| LouisvilleMom |
Posted - Aug 26 2009 : 7:40:24 PM
My HOA will not let me dry my clothes outside so I have to do it inside. I usually run the shirts and slacks for a few minutes to get the wrinkles out and then hang. The problem I have always run into is socks and underwear. There are too many in a family of 6 to hang on the drawers, etc. One day I was literally turning in circles in my laundry room trying to find another spot to hang a sock and I stopped when I realized I had a great big bulletin board with lots of empty tacks! Now I tack all the socks (by the toes), underwear and kitchen towels on the bulletin board. It works great and the kids think it is hilarious to go untack their underwear in the morning.
As a side note I bought my gigantic bulletin board for $2 at a moving sale.
Hope this helps someone!
SAHM mom to four great boys.
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| katalind |
Posted - May 21 2010 : 08:09:33 AM
I LOVE my retractable clothes line. It's on my back porch and I use it all year long. I like to dry my darks on it out of the sun to keep them from fading, and I like to dry my lights out in the sun for the natural bleaching action of the sun. |
| Dawniamw |
Posted - Mar 21 2010 : 9:23:37 PM
Hi Everyone,
Has anyone ever used the retractable laundry lines that roll up back into their cord containers? Rather like a retractable dog leash casing, but with laundry cord. They also make ones that have multiple lines,but watch for quality.
If you were able to mount a hook on both sides of the porch or a nearby structure you could hang the clothes during the day and then retract the cords in the evening, or do double duty: while drying blankets and sheets, take advantage of the impromptu "awning" and have some lemonade!
Another option, that my neighbor has, is attaching their laundry line posts, one to each side, of their deck. They could double for hanging topsy-turvy tomatoes (re-usable shopping bags work great for this!), lettuce baskets, strawberry baskets, or flower pots. |
| dellsworth |
Posted - Dec 30 2009 : 07:13:45 AM
I mail ordered a very high quality (not like the flimsy bargain store ones) and very large wooden drying rack similar to Marian's a long time ago from a place called Vermont Country Store, or something like that. I don't even know if they still exist. But I do know that Lehman's, which is another store with online and mail ordering carries all sorts of things related to non-electric clothes drying including racks and lines. They cater to the Amish community in their original brick and mortar stores so they have all kinds of cool stuff.
Deanna
Farmgirl Sister #909 |
| dutchy |
Posted - Dec 29 2009 : 11:49:18 PM
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Originally posted by Betty J.
........--no one has any business looking in my backyard. Who knows, I might be sunbathing in the altogether--of course not today.
Betty in Pasco
LOL about the sunbathing , but not today haha!! I was trhinking the same thing about HOA not being allowed to look in your backyard. They have no right here without my consent anyway. But we are also allowed to have washing lines up so no worries about that anyways :)
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
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| Betty J. |
Posted - Dec 29 2009 : 6:02:44 PM
Do you get the fresh laundry smell from hanging inside? I don't know where these HOA's get off forbidding clotheslines, especially in the back yard. I can see them not wanting unsightly stuff in the front yard, but in the back yard--no one has any business looking in my backyard. Who knows, I might be sunbathing in the altogether--of course not today.
Betty in Pasco |
| Faransgirl |
Posted - Dec 29 2009 : 5:50:36 PM
I have one of the umbrella clothes lines in my back yard. I have a HOA the will not let you have a clothes line, but we went out in the front yard and looked in from both sides before we decided where to put it. You can't see it from the front of the house. For drying inside I have a bed with posts and a wrought iron rail around the top and I hang things from there with hangers.
Farmgirl Sister 572
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| MommaJ9 |
Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 8:35:32 PM
You can find the drying rack that dutchy showed at IKEA. I found a drying rack that is on a pully system (very simple) that we hung above our woodstove. Hang them before bed and by morning the clothes are dry! And the racks are out of the way if we need to use our family room for entertaining. Course, the clothes aren't on them! I don't think anyone needs to see the family "thunderwear"! BTW, we hung 2 and then have a wooden free-standing rack that's on its last leg. I think I'll try the one dutchy has next...looks a little more durable!
Farmgirl #783
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Nov 09 2009 : 06:21:22 AM
I use two wooden racks and hang a lot on hangers along the shower curtain rod. We have a woodstove so in the winter the drying racks get put near the stove. Takes a long time to dry them though. Since the heat rises I prefer to hang them upstairs in the extra bedroom. Today is beautiful out and so I am putting them on the line.
God is good....all the time.
Denise
www.torisgram.etsy.com |
| homsteddinmom |
Posted - Nov 09 2009 : 05:05:28 AM
I have a dry rack like the one above, i got it at Ikea for $20. I want to go back and get 2-3 more. The kids will each have there own for there rooms to hang up there clothes! That way they are already in their room so no folding and moving to their rooms. I also have 2 tension shower curtain rods in my laundry room that i use to hang things up on also.
Homesteading Mom in East Texas. Raising chickens, Rabbits and goats here on my farm! |
| knittingmomma |
Posted - Oct 14 2009 : 07:36:21 AM
We hang dry our clothes always. As a matter of frugality, we hung a rope along one far end of our bathroom and I hang the clothes alternating on hangers and clothespins and then we have a wooden fold up stand for the small items.
So far even with eight of us, it is working.
Warm wishes,
Tonya - Homesteading, Handcrafting Mom of 6 - http://plainandjoyfulliving.blogspot.com
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| SuzieQ |
Posted - Sep 23 2009 : 9:22:23 PM
I have the same px of HOA not allowing a clothes line. My DH put two lines in the garage for me and that works wonderful. |
| Cabinprincess |
Posted - Sep 16 2009 : 4:01:03 PM
They have pole clothes lines that open like a umbrella and when not in use they fold down. My aunt had one that attached to the side of the garage and she would pull it out and attach it to a single pole out in the yard. It had four lines and when she was done it would spring back in the case on the wall. They still have those to buy also. There are a couple of Non Electric catalogs that carry different types of outdoor clothes line at reasonable prices.
Smiles, Melody June
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| krissy |
Posted - Sep 16 2009 : 1:06:20 PM
My neighbor dries her clothes out on a line, but she's got a lot of flat space in back of her house. I do, however, have a large deck out beyond my laundry room. What could I use? Hmm... I'll have to think.
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| Jennifer Mulkey |
Posted - Sep 01 2009 : 8:33:52 PM
I have a large wooden indoor clothes line too, to use when it's just too darned cold to go out and chap my hands all up hanging clothes.
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Sep 01 2009 : 8:06:56 PM
I have a three teir one too because I live in a apartment, actually I have two. I can't remember if they were 20 dollars or 40......either way cheaper then a dryer! lol hahaha And will last longer too! I bought them ad Bed, Bath and beyond, they are wire wire with a white coating. And fold almost flat, I even take them on vacation!
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| LouisvilleMom |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 10:12:33 PM
This just gets them out of the way instead of having to find a place for a drying rack AND it provides a laugh when I see the kids underwear hanging from the wall!
SAHM mom to four great boys.
http://ksfarnsworth.blogspot.com/ |
| Montrose Girl |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 7:08:51 PM
I have a dryer similar to the one Dutchy provided. I can't remember where mo got it, but it's size adjustable, gets longer. I love it and sometimes it will be found in my bathtub (separate from the shower) for days.
You can buy wooden ones at Walmart and Target but they aren't as good. I like my metal one.
Best Growing |
| southerncrossgirl |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 07:07:30 AM
Dutchy, I never seen one of those. That is a wonderful clothes drying thingy
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| countrymum |
Posted - Aug 27 2009 : 8:53:33 PM
I have 3 clothslines in my laundry room in the basement.Of course they are not as long as the outside ones but it works for me in bad weather, I just can't do as many loads that day.
I do have to agree with Karin, I don't understand what's wrong with using the Earth's sun and wind to dry our clothes. It's better for the enviroment, it's free, and you can't beat slipping into bed at night with sheets that have been hanging out to dry.
"Life is brief & very fragile. Do that which makes you happy."- Flavia |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Aug 27 2009 : 04:47:56 AM
That's very funny! You know, I will never understand what people have against hanging clothes outside.
Karin
Farmgirl Sister
# 18 :)
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| dutchy |
Posted - Aug 26 2009 : 11:31:10 PM
Don't you guys have one of these? I have one and in wintertime I put it in my bathroom to dry my smalls...
They have been around here for as long as I know and eons longer. Bet they are there too, right??
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
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Almost daily updates on me and mine :)
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| Niamh |
Posted - Aug 26 2009 : 11:13:06 PM
LOL - that is really funny.
I'm trying to find a solution for hanging clothes inside in the winter. I don't want to hang them outside because I'm a wuss when it comes to cold weather and stiff as a board clothes.
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| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Aug 26 2009 : 9:28:15 PM
LMAO..................... that is too cute
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