Originally Posted by IdahoSandy
I remember those times and also the diapers freezing in the winter time. Were stiff as a board and if they didn't freeze dry, I would bring them inside and string a clothsline in the kitchen and rehang them there. There is nothing better than smelling those sheets as you take them off the clothsline.
IdahoSandy
When I was first married we lived in the city and our clothesline went from our kitchen window to a pole in the back of the yard. With 2 small children in diapers the clothesline in the winter often had a long line of frozen cloth diapers waving in the wind. When we moved to our new house in the surburbs I had DH put up an umbrella type clothesline in the back yard but was very glad house came with a dryer so I could dry diapers and clothes in the winter. We've lived here for a little over 50 years and I still have an outdoor clothes dryer.
I grew up in the city and knew the 'proper' days and ways to hang clothes outside but when I had my own city apartment I put the wash out whenever I could and took them in whenever I had the time, sometimes the clothes stayed out overnight! Might have shocked my older women neighbors but it never hurt the clothes.