Annz

That is sooooo true.

Betty J

Here in Australia we still hang our washing on a line. We have the Hills hoist and I have a multi line fold up on the back verandah. I only use the dryer in wet weather.

I remember wash day was quite a ritual when I was a child. Coppers were the go and the clothes, sheets etc were boilded in the copper, then rinced in the blue water and mostly wrung by hand and pegged on the clothes line. My mother got her first wringer washing machine in the late 1950's. My Mum is now 84 and wasing day is still very much the ritual of a Monday, of course. I certainly don't follow all the washing rules of long ago but I still wipe the line and always hang whites with white and tops by the bottoms and bottoms by the tops.

My Dad had an engineering works and I remember he made my Mum her first rotary hoist, very similar to the hills hoist.

marlene tarzwell

this is so funny cause most of these I do,do. Just make sense,right!!

crella boudon

OH YES I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS IN WV AN IN THE WINTER TIME I HAVE HAD NY HANDS FREEZE TO THE LINE

burnsk

Kinda like sticking your tongue to a light pole LOL

dean's wife

I have really enjoyed reading all the responses. I grew up in the forty's and fifty's so we had a wringer washer with the wash tubs for the rinsing. I was missing my cloths lines so my 41yr. old son and his wife had some made for her and I for Mother's Day and then drove 3 hours to put them in for me. They should out live me and all my grandchildren and even my great granddaughter. They are made of galvanized pipe painted black and cemented in about 3ft. I just love them.
And yes I do follow all the cloths line rules. I also remember the pant stretchers that my mom used for my dads pants. After they were dry I would have to iron the tops. Oh what a good time it was.

roseOfsharon

I do remember most of those rules! We hung outside up until winter and then we hung in the basement and attic!

perry

I think my Mother wrote those rules! If she didn't like the way we (her daughters) hung the laundry she would go back and redo it. Every thing had to be in order.

JJane

My very first sewing project was an apron that held the clothespins. Does that date me???HA

maxi

Have a line that pulls out from the house to the fence. Where I live we have rules that nothing can be seen above the fence. Good thing we are short people. I love to hang the clothes out and Husband helps me with it. Unmentionables stay in the house however. Wouldn't want one of those to fly up over the fence with a gust of wind!