Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 09, 2015

i miss that. apartment retirement.

Saves a buttload of electricity or gas, too, and usually faster than a dryer. When we were stationed at Ft Sill, Oklahoma, in the summers, my wife would wash then hang up the sheets, and as soon as she got done hanging the last one, she’d be able to go back and start taking down the now dry sheets at the beginning. Lowered our electric bill by 20% in the summers. And they do smell very nice after line drying. Softer, too.

The smell of sun-dried clothes… Heavenly! But yes, here in Chennai, India, it takes hardly half an hour to dry a load of clothes!

Fresh air and sunlight are great disinfectants, and bleach your whites as well.

Don’t tease Janis about her clothesline, or she’ll give you sheet.

Sounds like my wife. But if you hang pants out in the winter, you can stand them against the wall until they defrost.

Janice does not have a clothes line. It is a solar powered dryer.

Failed hippie or senile feminist also works.

Yes with all the pollen on them. A real allergy nightmare. We couldn’t think of doing a clothesline.

Nothing better than line dried sheets, sleep like a rock in them. It almost makes me feel sorry for those who have foolishly surrendered their basic property rights to the ridiculous HOA’s.

Seldom works in Central Kalifornia…too much pollen, air pollution for folks with allergies. And line-dried fabrics are stiffer than dryer tumbled, in my experience. And a bit more time and labor to hang out stuff, than to just toss into the dryer. But to each, his own.

Everyone has an opinion, follow your own and enjoy the results….

“Up your nose with the smell of those!”

Who would make fun of a clothesline? They are a good idea. Janis is probably just oversensitive and she misunderstands what people mean when they comment on the clothesline.

What? Feminism doesn’t have anything to say about clotheslines. Don’t be silly.

" Smell these. We are going green. How else do you think I look like this and it is cheaper than a gym."

Love the grin on Arlo’s face. In N. Michigan, even the cold wind will dry sheets and towels. May take most of the day, but hey, they are “freeze dried” and fresh. Warm is better, but it still can be a challenge to hand them when it is cold, not snowy, tho..

Or someone (like me) whose dryer has kicked the bucket.

I use an ancient Kenmore dryer when it’s raining, cold or pollen is high. Rest of the time I use the line. My aunt gave my Mom the dryer sometime in the early 1980s when she moved from her house to an apartment. We’d never had one before that. I can remember my Mom hanging out sheets in the winter and they’d freeze and have to thaw before they could dry. We had a line in the garage to use when it rained.

“How is she a “failed Feminist” when she is living the way she wants to?”.Obviously under the concept that domestic chores should never be done by TRUE feminists.If you were a feminist like me, you would understand.

Arlo’s smiling now; but I bet he wishes Janis would be as excited about him as she is about those sheets. I’m familiar with the feeling of being a lot further down her list of things to do as the marriage wears on.

Banning clothes lines is actaully illgeal in some states..Our HOA only had a policy that they not be visable from the front, and with 6 ft tall board fenes that wasn’t hard, still I only line dried my comforter, and had to be vigilant while it was out, stupid birds…..