I live in the country have had a clothes line all my life. I have never had a dryer. We have a wood furnace and that get used with an indoor clothes line down cellar. Also have several wooden rack dryers. much prefer the fresh smell of the out doors. I used a plastic bag pinned to my clothesline to put my pins in. I find that it is difficult to get good clothes pins now. They are so thin and do not hold up (much like many other things now adays.