I must of made my family look like we are freaks

**brenda67** · 08-24-2009, 07:36 PM

I have my clothes line filled with clothes I hung out on Saturday morning..well we have had lots of rain so the clothes obviously didn't dry..but I thought they would dry today with the sun shining bright and a slight breeze..well I washed all my delicates (my jammies,underware & bra's) hoping to get all of them dried today as I have to work the next couple of days and won't feel like doing any work after work..so anyway I went to take down the clothes and they were still very damp..

I managed to fit my undies and bra but no room for my jammies which is something I wear everyday and I wore all three sets) so I put them on hangers using a couple of clothes pins to keep them from falling off and made room to have them hang from the clothesline...fast forward about 3 hrs and my jammies are still not dried and I need a pair for after my shower..so I'm trying to think of how I'm going to get them dried quickly without using my dryer not to mention I don't want to shrink them at all..so I got this brilliant idea while walking around my yard that we have a basketball hoop in front of our garage in between the 2 garage doors where the Sun is hotter then heck with a nice breeze and is about 8 feet high..then Bingo it hit me why not just hang my jammies that are on hangers and hang them around the loops in the netting..they are light enough where they wouldn't harm it...the kicker is that the main road is 20ft away and right in plain veiw for anyone to see ..and believe me anyone who was going by saw my jammies..LOL..my kids are use to me doing wierd things so they didn't even question it....But it did the trick..my jammies are almost completely dried after only a couple of hours..

**brenda67** · 08-24-2009, 07:40 PM

I wanted to add that I can't dry my clothes in my basement as of right now it's loaded with big giant spiders..oversized crickets and lots of centapedes sp? Ewww...when my dh gets home from Wisconsin I'm going to have him bomb it..

**AmyBoz** · 08-24-2009, 07:41 PM

Freaks? No. Frugal genius? You got it!

I do this kind of stuff also. I always wonder what is said about our family at the dinner tables of our neighbors.

**Sassyclass** · 08-24-2009, 11:59 PM

At least it wasn't your underwear. A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do. Thanks for the giggle.

Cat

**Michelle68** · 08-25-2009, 12:06 AM

LOL, very good thinking on your part.

**frugalfranny** · 08-25-2009, 12:08 AM

Cute story.

Sooooooo ...next week give them a real thrill....hang the bras and a couple jock straps up there.......it IS a basketball net!

**pollypurebred39** · 08-25-2009, 12:14 AM

We live next to a very wealthy family and I'm positive without any doubt that we are the rednecks of the neighborhood, in their opinion. After we moved in they immediately planted a visual barrier so they did not have to see our swing set :p Whatever. I'm sure our many yardsales really put a twist in their knickers and our totaled car that we had pulled right into our driveway till we could get rid of it without it costing us anything most definately caused some talk around the dinner table. *giggles* oh well, were frugal and do very frugal things which spill outside our front door. Would I have hung my PJ's on the basketball hoop to dry, you bet! My underwear...no. LOL!

**mauimagic** · 08-25-2009, 12:30 AM

If we can bring a smile to anyone we have done a good thing in this world!! Great going!!

**phoeny_moonstar** · 08-25-2009, 12:44 AM

Hey... it could of been your undies ya know.

Good thinking though. I would of never thought of that myself.

**frugalwarrior** · 08-25-2009, 01:08 AM

I know our neighbors wonder about us. Last year we had a basketball hoop that was broken and a old car which I got rid of. This year I cleaned tons of stuff out of our garage. Now I have taken 30 bags of trash from the junk room to the trash. But I put the old beds in the garage until I can call the trash company for special pick up. My DS set them up and his friends are sitting on them playing guitar and my Ds plays banjo. I figure they must wonder if I make him sleep in the garage or if we are moving. We also haven't mowed the back yard in a month because I have to save $200. for the bee guy to come out and kill a huge in ground nest. My DS got stung last time he mowed and DH is allergic. My DH also leaves almost every week and comes back for weekends. We must drive our nosy neighbors crazy. I also have a dozen cats and have for over 5 years. Our neighbors ask how many we have. I taught everyone to say: to many for sanity.
So my point is: come live next door to me. We could have fun. I miss my old neighbor who made black bands for all the trees w/ grease on them so the squirrels and tent caterpillers couldn't climb them. I need a new ally. HEE.HEE.

**WV_mom_of2** · 08-25-2009, 06:40 AM

When dh and I were first married we rented a house in a nice sub-division. Problem was, we were the ONLY young couple there! The houses were really close, separated only by a driveway on each side. Moving from the country I HATED that place! The yard had no clothesline so I strung a line around the carport and hung my laundry there, including my undies. I didn't give a crap what the old farts who lived on that side thought. They were nosey and constantly running to my inlaws to tell them every little thing we did(every time we had company, what time we came home, etc.).

**miss_thrifty** · 08-25-2009, 08:54 AM

your too funny. and yes i would pjs in the front too. My undies and bras go on a rack along the side of oue end of the (duplex) . So her end of the business cant see them when they drive by or in the parking lot. Its like alittle alcove.. The place is on a angle to the road . they can see my clothes on the line.