Clotheslines stage a comeback

jerry old said:
Nothing, nothing beats the smell of clothes dried under direct sunlight.
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Except bacon & brie with a dollop of mango chutney, served up in a mini style French baguette. Smells wonderful.
But to get back onto the topic, my cat just loves clean sheets. If I were to let her, she would rip them apart the way she pounds her claws into them.
 

I still have a clothesline (umbrella type) and used to hang all my clothes outside to dry but both the heat and all the pollen in the air got to me, so I only dry the bigger stuff (blankets, bedspreads) outside. Plus the last 3 or 4 years, there've been so many fires that the air seems full of smoke & sometimes ash most of the summer and so you can't hang anything outside.
 
officerripley said:
Today (no fires yet, thank goodness altho they say they're coming) I'm going to hang to dry outside 1 bedspread and 2 electric blankets. (Altho they say you can dry elect. blankets in the dryer on low, I think they last longer if they're air dried.)
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That's a fact.
 
Aunt Marg said:
That's a fact.
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It really is; in fact, my dear departed MIL always used to say that no matter how strictly you followed the washing instructions for electric blankets, it seems like once they were washed, they never heated up again as well. She said she had even tried *handwashing* them in the bathtub (which meant she had to get down on her knees of course, which wasn't fun) and then drying outside and it still seemed like it affected the heating. I guess no matter what, water & electricity aren't the best combination.
 
Many many years ago someone stole some undies off my line. They wouldn’t anymore. 🤣. One, they wouldn’t be out there & two, they wouldn’t be desirable if they were.
 
Jules said:
Many many years ago someone stole some undies off my line. They wouldn’t anymore. 🤣. One, they wouldn’t be out there & two, they wouldn’t be desirable if they were.
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I've never understood the mentality of stealing from others, and I doubly will never understand why anyone would want to steal anything from someone's clothesline.

Back in the late 80's/early 90's, a pantie thief was on the prowl in our neck of the woods. That ended my days of leaving washing out on the line overnight.
 
I remember my mom had this big glass bottle with a aluminum top with a bunch of holes punched in it. She used to to moisten the things she was ironing. I often wonder did they not have spray bottles like Windex she could have used instead. Like many others she ironed our sheets. I always thought was dumb. Who is going to go in to our bedrooms and look at the sheets?
 
fmdog44 said:
I remember my mom had this big glass bottle with a aluminum top with a bunch of holes punched in it. She used to to moisten the things she was ironing. I often wonder did they not have spray bottles like Windex she could have used instead. Like many others she ironed our sheets. I always thought was dumb. Who is going to go in to our bedrooms and look at the sheets?
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I remember the old-fashioned sprinkle tops!

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LOL, about the ironing of the bed sheets!

I will be the first to admit what a fuss-nut I am when it comes to homemaking, but ironing bed sheets has never been something I have done, but do know a few that do.
 
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Capt Lightning said:
Tish, the Hills hoist rotary line is the line of choice up here. It's good and sturdy and stands up to the winds that we get.
Some of the old fishing villages had very little private ground to the cottages, so there were communal 'drying greens'.
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Around here they call 'em "umbrella" clothes lines but I think they're the best here too.
 
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