Yahoo!!!!

**Valerie in WA** · 03-28-2006, 12:35 AM

See the little 'me' in my siggy - hanging the laundry out to dry? I'm BAAAAACK. Today I line-dried my first (outdoor) load of the year! Hooray!!!

What a wonderful feeling.

**frugalfarmwife** · 03-28-2006, 06:01 AM

Isn't it great? I hung out sheets and blankets all day Sunday and was so happy! I LOVE the smell of lined dried clothing and the savings! WOOOHOOO, warmth is finally here!

kj

**Darlene** · 03-28-2006, 06:59 AM

Enjoy! Looks like I'll be able to do that this week too.

**FrugalMomof3** · 03-28-2006, 07:55 AM

The weather is warming up so I will be doing this too... soon enough!

**NoDebtMom** · 03-28-2006, 08:48 AM

I did this yesterday!! LOVE it.

**Katybird** · 03-28-2006, 08:58 AM

That is one of my favorite things about spring. I love the smell of freshly hung laundry.

**schellie69** · 03-30-2006, 09:39 AM

I hung my 1st load about 3 weeks ago

and I have one of those one pole square lines, guess what my pole rusted and it broke

now I have to wait for dh to fix it while he is trying to add one bathroom and remodle our other bathroom I don't think i will get to hang clothes at all this year

Maybe my ds's and I can fix it anyone know how we might do this.... I am not sure how to fix it dh said oh i know how to fix it but would tell me. how

thanks for listening to me vent. Hopefully i get it fixed soon.. i will post if i ever do. lol

**FrugalMomof3** · 03-30-2006, 09:43 AM

I hung my clothes to dry on the line yesterday 3/29... oh the smell of fresh air dried clothes.

**UPSyours2** · 03-30-2006, 10:47 AM

While growing up Ma always washed clothes by hand & sometimes used one of those old fashioned wash boards too!

The old fashioned kitchen sink had a big deep basin on one side & the regular sized sink on the other side w/the 2 cabinets below.

I did laundry w/my Dad we'd always go to the laundrymat until he bought Ma a Kitchen Aid Speed Queen washing machine & every Saturday while Ma was out working cleaning house I would do the laundry.

We never had a dryer just hung up the clothes outside & for Dad's pants there were these metal pants hangers which held the pants shape while drying. I'm not sure what they were called

My Dad had a clothes line w/the reel hooked up to the post right by the back door, which went all the way across the yard to another pole by the garage. We hand another shorter line hooked up by the shed to one of the trees. I usually hung up the more heavier clothes there.

We hung the clothes out to dry even in the cold weather they were a bit crunchy when it was really freezing out!

We have steam heat radiators so we'd hang the clothes on top of them to dry also.

There was also a clothesline in the hall across from the coat rack wall my Dad built!

Having towels warmed up on the radiators while taking a bath were nice!

DH Mom always hangs out her

to line dry, they use the dryer every so often.

I don't have much luck w/the birds hovering around & the bugs getting into my clothes I never line dry our clothes now!

Also the pollen getting onto my clothes & my bad allergies doesn't help!

**YankeeMom** · 03-30-2006, 11:16 AM

I hung out my first loads yesterday!! LOVE linedrying season

I did three loads yesterday and am doing 1 load today. So instead of 5 loads in the dryer, only 1 go in the dryer (socks & underwear, along with a few of dh's work clothes that can't be linedried).