I use the line in spring/summer, but my timy strip of yard doesnt get sun in winter/autumn so I use the dryer full on, dont have room in my tiny flat for clothes horses everywhere
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I use the line in spring/summer, but my timy strip of yard doesnt get sun in winter/autumn so I use the dryer full on, dont have room in my tiny flat for clothes horses everywhere
Nappies and clothes go outside on the line if the weather is fine. Sheets, too. I love the smell if you hang them out in the evening and collect them mid-morning. It smells so fresh. No fabric conditioner can beat that.
If it's raining, I have a small clothes airer and a curtain rod in the laundry where I can hang things. But if I need to do more than one load, I put things in the dryer until almost dry, then hang them to finish off (haha, the exact opposite to what many of you are doing). I find I get less wrinkles if I don't use the dryer until clothes are completely dry. I have a "iron" setting on my dryer that gets it almost dry but not bone dry. I don't iron by the way).
Beach towels go on the line, too.But bath towels go in the dryer because I hate when they're stiff like a board.
I didn't use to use the line nearly as much as I do now. I grew up in Germany and my mother had no outside hanging space whatsoever (still doesn't). So she always used the dryer and finished things off by hanging them off a pipe in the cellar. She had no space for a clothes horse either. When I lived in Sydney, I didn't have a dryer. I hated having to dry everything on the line. So when I moved to Queensland and got myself a dryer, I ended up using it all the time, like I was used to from home. I think it was when I started using cloth nappies that I thought to myself: what's the point of using cloth when I use the dryer on them all the time. Plus nothing beats the sun for stains.
I always use our line, we have one out the back and DH made a really big one in the garage so that gets a work out through winter and I have a big one in the study under the heating vent. We only ever use the dryer if something needs to be used asap which is rarely. Our dryer prob gets used a handful of times in a yr.
oh, what a great idea, i could put my clotheshorse in the garage if it's raining. why didn't i think of that????
I had a bit of a giggle when I heard the term 'vintage clothesline' yesterday.. I never realised they were considered vintage!
I have never owed a dryer, all of our clothes/cloth nappies are dried on the clothesline or when its raining on the clotheshorse inside.
I never use my line. Feral dog, plus its really shady where it is. Nappies and the kids clothes go on a clothes airer on top of the trampoline when sunny, or in the garage. Pretty much all our stuff except non dryer friendly stuff goes in the dryer. Plus sheets and towels :)
It really is so handy. DH put screws with eyes on the ends into the brickwork and ran this heavy duty plastic covered cabling through it. We have 6 lines of it that run the width of the garage, so they can take lot's of washing.:
I do the tiniest bit of washing every week (It's only me at my house) and in winter my line doesn't get ANY sun. So I have to pop it in the drier.
In summer I hang it out on the line. My line is one of those fold out ones attached to the brick wall, and the genius that put it there put it REALLY high and I can hardly reach it, so it makes hanging out the washing sliiiightly difficult for me, being a short and all.
If you live in a block of units, and the garages somehow connect together - you can get exhaust fumes. But usually the garage is a good spot.:
I don't own a dryer. If it's not going to rain I hang my washing outside, otherwise I use clothes horses inside.
Pfft no! my clothesline is full of spider webs and gives me the willies!
my clothes either go in the drier or on clothes horses