OMGosh....I remember those days TOO well!! I was the only girl so "mom's helper"....meaning I hung out a LOT of laundry. We had an outside line and a line in the hallway for those cold days....not alot of those in Texas. It's funny I still take each piece of laundry and "shake it good" before putting it in the dryer....something I was told to do before putting clothes in the basket to take out to the line. The thing I hated the most was WASP. We used wooden clothes pins and for some reason they attracted big fat red wasps!