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Written by Linda Woodrow on 2025-01-15 at 23:43

My #OptOut #SpendingStrike post today is about line drying clothes. A friend tells me that in US this was just not done, would draw complaints from neighbours when she lived in US 30 years ago. Is this still so? I love the smell of line dried sheets, and sun is such a good disinfectant, and driers are such energy sucking short lived appliances. It's a wet day here, but still, the clothes will at worst get another rinse in sweet smelling, soft rain water.

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Written by Anne Deschaine on 2025-01-15 at 23:49

@lindawoodrow It probably depends a great deal where you live. I'm sure there are suburban or other neighborhoods with HOA or other restrictions on it. But as a general rule, yes, people line-dry laundry in the US!

We use our balcony for it whenever the weather is dry, even in winter (my region is mild but often wet). We love letting nature take care of it instead of electricity

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Written by Ganga on 2025-01-15 at 23:49

@lindawoodrow I miss my old rotary clothes line, which died a long time ago. I have a fold down one now, but there was something about the rotary one, the way it caught breezes, I used to love.

I dry my clothes outside as much as possible, and over heater vents in the floor when the weather is too wet. I won't have a drier, altho understand why people with kidlets might prefer to have one for emergencies.

Perhaps people in the US should just put up higher fences, like we do here.

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Written by DriftlessRoots on 2025-01-15 at 23:57

@lindawoodrow I suppose it depends on where you live. I grew up on a farm with line-dried clothes and, more importantly, sheets. Jeans that were crisp and fresh for the first few you put them on and a bed that promised good dreams were worth the rush to the clothesline when it got gray in the west. Many, many people still dry their things outdoors but maybe they are too busy to be on the socials.

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Written by Rayna Fahey on 2025-01-16 at 00:01

@lindawoodrow I MUCH prefer line dried clothes. So much fresher.

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Written by Scare 🦇🔮🕸 on 2025-01-16 at 00:05

@lindawoodrow (Australian) this year is the first time in my life I've owned a clothes dryer (combo washer dryer) and even still I line dry everything except towels. Not only is line drying less resource intensive but improves the longevity of clothes too, which is so important for reducing textile waste

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Written by Siobhan on 2025-01-16 at 00:13

@lindawoodrow

We line dry all spring and summer.

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Written by Graham Freeman on 2025-01-16 at 01:40

@lindawoodrow We line dry here at our home in Northern California, when weather permits. But we live in the woods, outside of any city boundary, and such things are far easier to do here than they would be in city limits.

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Written by Sara on 2025-01-16 at 02:00

@lindawoodrow nah, I've been line drying laundry in the US for decades

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Written by AvonLovesBlake on 2025-01-16 at 02:50

@lindawoodrow

Also, if you set up a portable clothes line on a covered back porch/covered back verandah,

you can get stuff dry even in winter when there is intermittent rain

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Written by FeralFood on 2025-01-16 at 07:27

@lindawoodrow I will forever be confused why the previous owner of out house didn't have a washing line. In Brisbane. Yeah, we immediately had to wire up something under the back deck, then get a hills hoist installed.

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Written by Tony Novak on 2025-01-16 at 11:08

@lindawoodrow Decades ago in the peak of my overcrowded career schedule, I learned to recognize the wealth of being able to walk outside to your back yard, hang clothes in the open air, and come back to take them in. The few Americans who have this material wealth seldom have the luxury of time or freedom to do so. This realization has remained with me as a valuable lesson.

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