I didn't hang clothes out to dry until I was married. I grow up in a house with a drier. The clothes line was the kind that looked umbrella shaped and I remember granny saying you put the whites all around the outside and darks in the middle. the sun would make the whites whiter. I thought about getting a clothes line last year I love the fresh scent whoever I am SO allergic to bee's and wasp's I try to go out as little as possible.