General Chat

I use a clothes line. Also use the tumble dryer (when necessary). I also have a clothes horse (in the spare room) for things that shouldn't go into the tumble dryer.

We have a "wet season" here in summer....... hot & steamy; can't use the clothesline, and if things are left on a clothes horse they can/will go mouldy.

I never leave pegs on the line...... messy..... and the birds would steal them!

I peg things up in groups, so it's easier to put things away.

I don't do what my mother did....... match the clothespegs colour to the clothes (sorry Marie lol)

We lived outside Oz for years, in apartments, nowhere to hang washing......... when we got back, the first night in our own bed, we both said "what's that funny smell?".......... it was the smell of freshly laundered sheets, dried outside! So much nicer than any fabric softener.

Sharron, there's nowt like getting a good billow on your sheets - a very satisfying sight.

Have to confess to having a bit of a "thing" about clothes pegs - I have to root through the pegbag to find pegs that match what they're pegging, I tip the pegpag onto the floor until I find the right colour. If Mr C hangs the washing out I have to go out and redo it when he's not looking (do I have a problem?)

Never had, and probably never will have, a tumble dryer - love the clothesline.

When it's too wet to hang out then the clothes horse comes out in one of the spare bedrooms. Used to love the wooden folding clothes horse - made a great tent with a blanket over it.

Sticking your finger in your mouth to see which way the wind is blowing so you know which way to hang the sheets so they billow the right way.

I have a washing line but Fred does the washing and has it in the tumble dryer before I can suggest it might well goon the line.

I did make him try to use the washing line but did relent because it was very tiring for him to hold his hand up to the line while trying to do the pegs with his one hand!

Ha ha, Prickles :-D

I'm not being funny Barry honest.............But................

I h'aint never had any pants with cuffs on!


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..... this is getting personal, Prickles and Wend ... in the nicest possible GR tradition, of course! Lol.

Wend............. :-D :-D :-D

I hang everything on my line for a good airing ;-)

. . . and Prickles, bit of advice - never peg your gusset - it takes so much longer to dry :-D

Yes! The clothes prop. You have reminded me. Thanks.
That's exactly what Mum called it!
I recall one of the things I had to do to earn my pocket money was to bring the dry clothes indoors.
(When I was told of course! What does a boy know - or care - about dry clothes on the washing line? Lol.)

We have a clothesline Barry and a prop. I did have a rotery dryer but it never was a good as the line.

I love rule number 8. I can remember as a child my Mum getting in washing which was frozen solid like a board :-D My Dads shirts could stand up by themselves

Teresa

We still call it a clothes prop.

I still use a clothes line but it's undercover to protect clothes from the sun.

We used to call the pole that held the clothes line up a prop. :-)

We used to go on holiday to North Berwick (Scot) the house was at the harbour and the line was at the very edge of the walkway so when you pinned out the washing it was flapping over the sea used to feel very unsteady hanging it out especially if the tide was in , funny feeling, surprisingly nothing ever got blown out to sea thank goodness wouldn't have liked to go paddling/swimming for our smalls :-D :-D :-D

I still use my clothes line, but not for smalls (use an over the bath clothes horse).
I hang clothes on hangers, then peg hooks to the line - no peg marks. Only trouble is, they tend to blow off the line when it's windy! :-D :-D

Les........... :-D :-D :-D

My wife hangs the washing on a clothes line..So much fresher than Tumbling...My mate Rob next door,,wife off to work leaves him with housework...Takes rugs out to shake them,,thinks I'll do what mum used to and beat them...Got a good stick,,hung rugs on line,,picked up stick,,CRASH..Line broke with weight,,front corner of shed came off,,Rob's on way to Homebase for new line before wife comes home...LES....

On a posh sea estate near to us they have a strict rule that no washing is allowed to be dried outdoors!!

How snooty is that??? LOL

I'm wondering .... are there not 'strict rules' in recent years from local authorities that only the 'whirly' type of clothes dryers can be used?

This dryer either has to be removed from its concrete support after use or to be folded so it doesn't look 'unsightly'?

I certainly can remember the clothesline, I always use one as much cheaper than a tumble dryer. Something is very satisfying to put up the clothes prop and know the wet clothes will dry. I didn't know there were "rules" only certain ways of pegging out wet clothes and doing things all handed down by a lovely Mum, very many years ago

No chance of talking our daughter into using this method, her washer and dryer are together in utility room. She never has to leave the house or keep an eye on the weather in case it should rain either!

LOVE the poem, very funny, mostly true..... thank you.