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[perSue]

do you line/hang dry your clothes?

what about in the winter? do you just hang them inside?

i always loved the smell of clothes right off the line in warmer weather... smells like "sunshine."

(Thought i'd add a post that requires little thinking/emotion this time!)

[monkeywrangler71]

I hang outside in the summer, inside in the winter. If my back door wasn't broken I would hang them outside - they actually smell better when they are dried outside in the freezing cold. Plus no bugs in the winter - which is my biggest complaint about summer drying.

[Holly]

Line dry in summer but use my dryer in the winter.

[perSue]

*silly question alert!*

i like the idea of haning them outside in the winter (yay! no bugs!)...
but what about pants/jeans... don't they get stiff or hard from hanging out there?

I always enjoyed the warmth right from the dryer.

[Momto2Boyz]

I line dry in the summer, but use my dryer in the winter.

Don't the clothes freeze in the winter? I would put mine out in the winter (I hate using the dryer)...I love the feeling of line dried clothes (and don't even get me started on line dried towels! ), but I always just assumed that they would freeze if it was below 32 degrees F, which it is here most of the winter!

[sdrjeolsen]

I line dry year round, outside in summer, in the basement or around the fireplace in the winter. Don't have a dryer, so I have no choice.

[monkeywrangler71]

Yup, they freeze. Then you pry them off the line, stiff as boards and hang them over a banister or chair. When they thaw out they're usually dry (maybe a damp spot where the clothespin was), and in the meantime your entire house smells like fresh air.

I don't find things are hard anymore by the time I put them on.

[birthgeek]

Inside in the winter; I have two wooden folding racks and two retractable clotheslines set up in my laundry room. I'll line up a few loads and tumble them each for 5 mins to reduce wrinkles before hanging, and I find this works much better than waiting and tumbling them once dry! In the summer I hang them outside on a line, and any extra goes on the wooden racks (which I sometimes take outside or just do it in the laundry room).

[Edna_E]

Thanks for the pointers, Monkeywrangler and Birthgeek - I'm moving to a house with a clothes line (YAY!) and a dryer and plenty of room to set up racks. My plan is to dry for a few minutes, then hang outside, then drape over racks as needed. For the past 2 years I've just draped, and sometimes it takes longer than I wanted, and things are wrinkled. So, life's looking up!

[claimsgirl66]

I have a folding drying rack and use it year round. In warm weather I put the rack on the deck to dry and in winter put it in one of the spare bedrooms. Dries pretty quick in this dry/winter climate.

As far as hanging items outside in the freezing cold....I have found whites get sort of naturally bleached when put outside in the freezing, or maybe it is combination of sunlight and freezing.

I will hang a few items on hangers, put them on the deck and let Mother Nature freeze dry them. Then I end up bringing them in and thawing inside!