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.

I use to do the clothes line thing too. Not any more. My clothes line has been moved so many times that there's no where it can go without affending anyone. My next house I will have one again.(I keep dreaming)!

wow!! it sounds like you lived at my house when I was growing up... Im from a family of 13 kids and then mom and dad.. 15 total, and on wash days mom would always have us girls help her hang out clothes and yes they had to be hung a certain way too... I still love to hang my clothes out to dry..:)

We now live in a subdivision on the outskirts of town. My neighbor still hangs her clothes out in nice weather. She invited me to use it. The first day after we moved into our new house I stepped outside with the basket of wet clothes and about gagged. The farmers had spread manure on the fields that morning. I thought I had moved next to a pig farm. But that night they plowed everything under and the odor was gone. Needless to say, I use my dryer because I don't know when the fertilizer will happen, and because of allergies can't have the pollen on the clothes.

With 6 of us kids we had plenty to wash using a wringer washer with rinse tubs in the basement..baskets of wet clothes were very heavy for a skinny kid like me. I still hang out my jeans, capris and always bed clothes...they smell heavenly to sleep on.

I remember all of those "RULES"& sweet smell of linens

Brings back memories of my childhood and when I was a young married woman. Life in the city changed that but once I was back in a small town I always hung clothes out to dry. Loved the smell of linens fresh from the clothes line. No clothes line now, just dryer clothes.

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So many memories.. I had a grandma that would come unglued if she saw me hang cloths just randomly.. I got the rules given to me by her too.. LOL.. the good old days..

I love hanging out clothes. Even made myself a new clothespin bag!

I frequently ask my son to hang out the washing while I'm at work, and I know that I will always cringe when I get home LOL! He has an 'interesting' way of hanging them out, but al least he does it I guess.

I love using the washing line and would hate to rely on a dryer. It just doesn't seem the same.