Who hangs their clothes on the line?

[Phteven]

our washing machine recently broke, so went to town... a town that is the largest inland city in NSW...not a single laundromat exisits!!!

There is one in Ainslie.

[Rivlas]

Have just hung out two loads. Love the clean smell after the washing has been on the line.

[~Hestia~]

I don't have a dryer so it's clothes line for us it's under the carport in the backyard so can use it all year round.

[Erin_25]

I picked rarely......but they always get hung on the line, just not by me
(I was non stop all day, fill the basked. DH gets home & hangs them up)

[littlecharli]

Always on the line unless it's raining or I'm desperate for something that day! Hehe

[MusicLover83]

We've never had a dryer so it's always the line or the clothes horse. Makes it a bit difficult in winter especially when you need to wash the sheets etc and it all takes days to dry inside!

[indie24]

During the warmer months our washing is hung out on the clothes line (which is on its last legs atm) and cooler months I use 3 clothes airers inside. I do use the dryer sometimes but ti is mainly for the clothes that need finishing off from the airer after a few days

[luna moth]

Always. We are househunting at the moment, and Hills Hoist or space for one is high on my list. We don't have a dryer, and I doubt that I'll ever want one.

[StrawberryFields]

Rarely to never, because our clothesline is in a stupid ass position where its in full shade by 930am every day from about April to October, and it pretty much rains during the day at some point from November to March so I've just given up. We also don't have the space for clothes horses inside and the only place for them outside means that every man and his dog can see all our washing. I used to put small things on a clothes horse on the patio until asswipes at DH's work started commenting about my underwear. Our power bill was still 15% below the average for the HLB so I figure its not costing us much more to put things in the dryer.

[Astrolady]

The clothes line, if it is raining we are lucky to have a big verandah area, so there is some twine strung up around that where I can put a few things I need urgently. Non urgent stuff goes on the clothes horse. We don't own a dryer and never have.

[misty]

We never use the clothesline. But we never use the dryer either.

If we hang clothes on the clothesline our beagle likes to jump and tear them off (and tear them up!). So it doesn't get used (or at least on only very very rare occaisions). We hang all our clothes around our living area in front of the heater to dry, on clthes horses and the back of our dining chairs.

[~TT40~]

There is one in Ainslie.

im not in Canberra anymore. My nearest city is Wagga. Thanks though!

[KimmyF]

Until last year we didnt own a dryer. I use my clothes line unless its raining and then i use 3 clothes horses. the dryer has been used about 5 times since we bought it last july and thats only 2 finish off DH's work pants or if i've fallen behind in washing my cloth nappies and i'm running low lol!

[Phteven]

im not in Canberra anymore. My nearest city is Wagga. Thanks though!

Yeah, Ainslie might be a bit far to travel in search of a dryer.

I'm a hills hoist fan not just for it's superior drying ability but because it's a tradition of Australian childhood to swing on one at least once.

[~*Niadalla*~]

I don't have a dryer. SO it's the clothes line or nothing.

[beckoes]

dont own a dryer!!! when ours broke i decided not to get a new one!!! i live in qld, even in the winter its normally 20 degrees plus, and the times when it rains....well, things take two days to dry....never mind.
if i had cloth nappies it would probably bother me.

[*EJ*]

We have a clothes line in the garage which is good for all year round for the most part. In the summer it's beautiful and warm in there so clothes can dry really quickly (brick garage). As it gets colder it's surprising warm in there still for the most part of winter, theres a few weeks maybe months where you stuggle to get them dry out there.

I also use the little air dryers for the kids stuff and or nappies. With 3 kids we constantly have clothes around the house.

We have the dryer also and i use it for nappies mainly in the colder weather and try and use it at night only. I sometimes use it also just to finish of the clothes that were only the line.

[Floweryfields]

What's cool is how the steam rises of the clothes when you hang them out on a cold morning!!

This poll is proving what I thought when I read that story in the paper yesterday, that it was a load! But then, perhaps city people with no backyards tend more to the dryer - of course the Brisbane paper seems to forget that there are more people in the state than live in Brisbane!