Hanging clothes on the line...

**Natalie** · 06-21-2008, 02:42 PM

Something I just saw in a tip on an email I got:

Hang up your laundry on a clotheshorse or line instead of throwing them in the dryer.

You will save about 950 kilowatt hours of electricity a year.

**KimmieSC** · 06-21-2008, 04:31 PM

Hi Natalie,

This is a great tip, and one my DH and I have been using since the weather has warmed up here!

For some reason while growing up, I hated the smell of clothes that my Mom hung on the line, but it's weird that I love that same smell now - It smells like sunshine!

We are blessed to have bought an old house (built in 1930) that has a big clothesline in our sunny backyard, so I bought some clothespins, and I actually enjoy hanging out the clothes now. I can tell our electric bill has dropped since we don't use the dryer much anymore. I think I am one of just a few folks in our town who hangs their stuff out to dry.

Blessings,

**Mom23boys** · 06-21-2008, 06:47 PM

I am so glad I have a clothesline in the backyard for those nice, sunny days and a clothes drying rack for indoors for those not so perfect days. :-)

**staciah** · 06-21-2008, 06:52 PM

I hang my laundry year round. Very rarely use my dryer. It does make a difference. I even unplug my dryer (electric dryer) when I don't use it. I figure that should help alittle too.

**DonnainME** · 06-21-2008, 08:19 PM

I hang when possible. BUT lately it's been really rainy. I don't have a dryer and have to take the clothes to a laundry to dry. I do hang some around in the house, but you can only hang so many - unless you are my in-laws but that's a different story.

**missyali** · 06-21-2008, 08:23 PM

I love clothes from the outside line. I do have to put the towels in the dryer for a bit to make them a little less crunchy!

**latierra84** · 06-21-2008, 09:33 PM

I hang out our clothes and towels pretty much all year long (Texas). Dh' does it too, but hates it when it comes to the undies and intimate load. LOL.

**kestrel91316** · 06-22-2008, 09:59 PM

I'm in an apartment now, so I can't hang laundry outside. The bird feeders on the balcony make that not feasible, too. But I can position my wooden dryer rack in the bathtub to drip, and then move it into the bedroom to finish drying, and it works real well. We are having a severe heat wave this past week, and today I did two sinks full of shirts and hung them to dry, and it took less than three hours to get them bone dry. I have the AC set at 82 to make it liveable, but the bathroom gets real hot with its west wall........

$1.00 saved every time I do this by not using the dryer in the laundry room. Save another $1.25 per load if I hand launder, too. I REALLY need to get back in the habit of doing this - I quit after I moved last fall.

**larabelle** · 06-23-2008, 07:34 AM

I hang all of my clothes year around on my wooden racks in the house. In the winter they take a little longer to dry but in the summer they are done in a snap (the good ole Texas sun)!!

**freebs** · 06-23-2008, 07:43 AM

I have a nice clothes line that i hang clothes out on, plus i made a hanging space on top of one of my dressers using some pipe it will hold 3 loads of shirts @ 15 shirts per load. Then i also have a dry rack and getting ready to install some more drying space in the bathroom. I think i will have enough room set up in the bathroom/laundry room to dry everything that we need!

**AmyBoz** · 06-23-2008, 08:16 AM

I have a line in the basement where I hang year-round. The only thing I don't hang are dh's work clothes, as I also don't enjoy ironing. I shudder to think of the electricity bill if I didn't do this!

**Jayne** · 06-23-2008, 10:35 AM

I love my clothesline!!!...It is mental therapy for me!!...It really does save you money and also wear and tear on the clothes!!!

**The Muse** · 06-23-2008, 10:42 AM

Yep, DH just finished building me a clothesline. My neighbors couldn't be less thrilled. Ha, ha, ha!

**Grayce** · 06-23-2008, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by The Muse

Yep, DH just finished building me a clothesline. My neighbors couldn't be less thrilled. Ha, ha, ha!

They just made it illegal in my province to have rules against clotheslines. I have had a clothesline for years, now it is completely legal

I try and hang as much as I can. I really think it makes the clothes last longer. In the winter I use lines in my basement.

**stinkbug** · 06-23-2008, 11:38 AM

Just put up my (umbrella style) clothesline on Saturday. I got it at Ace Hardware. I'm sooooo happy. It's against CCRs in our area, but no one will see it and my immediate neighbors don't care. (one is a stay at home dad who is very cool and one is a super greenie!) We have no neighbors behind us to see it.