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02-20-2011, 11:51 AM

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jpthequilter

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Originally Posted by Remie

Some of my favorite memories are spending the summers at my grandma's house in Kentucky, collecting rainwater in the the wash tubs,doing the laundry on the big wrap-around porch,and hanging it all out to dry! I am so glad I had those experiences!

I used to live in Kansas. On a windy summery day I used to hang everything in my laundry baskets on a forty ft line.
When I got to the end of it, the clothes would be dry at the beginning end.
So I would take them down, and hang up the rest! It was the dry air that sucked the moisture out of the clothes that fast!
...and they smelled good too, if I left them out longer.

02-20-2011, 11:55 AM

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CarrieAnne...I have to ask you a question...Do you have a certain way to hang up the clothes,) ie all large towels together, then hand towels, then washcloths) or do you just hang them up as they come out of the basket?

When I was a kid at home, everything had to be hung together, towels then wash cloths, sheets then pillowcases. Jeans and pants/shorts then shirts hung by the bottom so as to not stretch the shoulders. Old habits die hard, I do like the order.

Ditto on the order of hanging up the clothes. Then when you take them down (if not going into the dryer) they are all together to fold up right at the clothes line. I remember as a kid helping Mom hang clothes out in the Winter....they would freeze before we could get them on the line....we called them "freeze dried" clothes....LOL

Yes, they were funny! The whole laundry stiff like boards! We kids used to giggle at my big dad's stiff long underwear!

02-20-2011, 02:38 PM

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I'm in St. Paul,Mn. What a difference a day can make, it's snowing and we might get 10 or more inches of snow.

02-26-2011, 09:31 AM

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Pzazz

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They would be dragging in the snow drifts for me. :(

Patti

02-26-2011, 10:52 AM

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That's the way I am too.
Hubby doesn't understand

02-26-2011, 10:56 AM

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cctx.

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I have a dryer, but I only using it if it's bad weather. My laundry is always hung out on the clothes line, except my lingerie, that is hung indoors; sunshine's the best cure!