Rules of the clothesline...
09-14-2010, 07:55 PM
#111
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I never minded hanging out clothes it was using the three wringer washers and hauling the hot water to wash stepdads rig clothes that always got to me youhad to time everything just right or start all over to get all the grease, oil and diesel out of the clothes.
09-14-2010, 09:00 PM
#114
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Originally Posted by Ditter43
I am so glad to have a dryer! Although I like the smell of sheets dried on the line, I have learned to love the smell of convenience!!! ha ha ha :lol: :-D
09-14-2010, 11:33 PM
#115
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oh what memories, grew up hanging laundry on clothes line, my mom didn't get a dryer till probably in the 70's, I left home after graduating in 1960. I have a pair of the pant stretchers hanging in my laundry room now. A Martha White bluing bottle and 2 sprinkler tops, one on an old Pepsi bottle, rub boards, and some lye soap. several wooden long clothes pins. Lots of memories. Luv the old stuff. we called it the clothesline pole.Oh and did those sheets smell wonderful....
09-14-2010, 11:39 PM
#116
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I do remember them. When I lived in England, my now ex was in USAF and when I would bring in my clothes when dried, if weather was cool, there would be cold dust marks on them. Loved it in UK.
09-15-2010, 02:57 AM
#117
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Living in Sr. housing, who would think of having a clothesline available? Well, we do. It took a lot of urging with management, but we got it. Gets used a lot when weather permits. Consider the fact that all of us here grew up when dryers were unheard of. Oh, yes, the smell of line dried sheets---um-m-m.
09-15-2010, 04:02 AM
#118
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Originally Posted by Colbaltjars62
I remember clotheslines but had no idea there were rules. :shock: :shock:
Do you remember clotheslines?
You have to be a certain age to appreciate this. I can still hear my mother now ...
THE BASIC RULES FOR CLOTHESLINES: (if you don't know what clotheslines are, better skip this)
1. You had to wash the clothes line before hanging any clothes (walk the entire lengths of each line with a damp cloth around the lines).
2. You had to hang the clothes in a certain order, and always hang "whites" with "whites," and hang them first.
3. You never hung a shirt by the shoulders - always by the tail!. What would the neighbors think?
4. Wash day on a Monday! . .. . Never hang clothes on the weekend, or Sunday, for Heaven's sake!
5. Hang the sheets and towels on the outside lines so you could hide your "unmentionables" in the middle (perverts & busybodies, y'know!)
6. It didn't matter if it was sub zero weather ... Clothes would "freeze-dry. "
7. Always gather the clothes pins when taking down dry clothes! Pins left on the lines were "tacky!"
8. If you were efficient, you would line the clothes up so that each item did not need two clothes pins, but shared one of the clothes pins with the next washed item.
9. Clothes off of the line before dinner time, neatly folded in the clothes basket, and ready to be ironed.
10. IRONED?! Well, that's a whole other subject!
Do you remember clotheslines?
You have to be a certain age to appreciate this. I can still hear my mother now ...
THE BASIC RULES FOR CLOTHESLINES: (if you don't know what clotheslines are, better skip this)
1. You had to wash the clothes line before hanging any clothes (walk the entire lengths of each line with a damp cloth around the lines).
2. You had to hang the clothes in a certain order, and always hang "whites" with "whites," and hang them first.
3. You never hung a shirt by the shoulders - always by the tail!. What would the neighbors think?
4. Wash day on a Monday! . .. . Never hang clothes on the weekend, or Sunday, for Heaven's sake!
5. Hang the sheets and towels on the outside lines so you could hide your "unmentionables" in the middle (perverts & busybodies, y'know!)
6. It didn't matter if it was sub zero weather ... Clothes would "freeze-dry. "
7. Always gather the clothes pins when taking down dry clothes! Pins left on the lines were "tacky!"
8. If you were efficient, you would line the clothes up so that each item did not need two clothes pins, but shared one of the clothes pins with the next washed item.
9. Clothes off of the line before dinner time, neatly folded in the clothes basket, and ready to be ironed.
10. IRONED?! Well, that's a whole other subject!
09-15-2010, 05:16 AM
#119
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Originally Posted by jemma
what was the length of wood with a notch used to raise and tighten the line----our first line went from our house eves to a branch on our red river gum tree--40 years ago that branch is now 2 meters higher than the house
09-15-2010, 05:34 AM
#120
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Originally Posted by slk350
I remember my mom with her first washing machine, an old wringer type.She would wash the clothes, hang them on the clothes line to dry...take them in (sometimes frozen), sprinkle them with water, roll them in bath towels, put them in the refrig for a day or so, then take them out and iron them !!! CRAZY ??? I never understand it.
See, there WAS a method to our madness!
I guess steam irons now take the place of dampening, but IMO it doesn't do the job as well as the old fashioned way.
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