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Baby
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01-08-2006

Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Baby a private message Print Post    
If I could use a clothes line, I might for some things. But since I live in an apartment complex that doesn't allow them and since I couldn't use one anyway because it would be just too hard sitting down, I don't. I think hanging sheets outside would be great as far as the fresh smell goes. But like Costa said, it wouldn't be so good if you use high thread count sheets and want to keep em soft! Hey Costa, you can say "thongs" on this board, can't you???

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Sunday, March 19, 2006 - 6:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
My grandparents had clothes line. I remember it being very long and the line would hang low because my grandma was short. In the middle of the line there was a board, possibly a 2x6, with a notch cut in the top. Once Grandma got the clothes up, she would raise that 2x6 so that stuff like sheets and towles wouldn't be touching the ground and the animals (they lived on a farm) wouldn't bother them. Grandma also had these contraptions that I think were called stretchers that she would put in the legs of Grandpa's pants before she hung them on the line.

What memories!!!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Sunday, March 19, 2006 - 8:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
LOL, yes you can Baby. I just didn't want it to be so obvious what I was sayin'! <grin>

I think you can still find the pants frames around. They were used to "crease" pants and keep them from wrinkling. I saw some not too long ago (maybe at The Container Store when I went looking for Baby's container).

Baby
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01-08-2006

Sunday, March 19, 2006 - 12:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Baby a private message Print Post    
Just teasing with ya, Costa. Why, of course, you can mention thongs here! Hope you had some really good R&R yesterday!

Bubbakitty
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01-29-2005

Sunday, March 19, 2006 - 1:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bubbakitty a private message Print Post    
I've never had any problems with my towels absorbency and I use liquid fabric softener all the time.

My mom used to hang my dad's white socks, underwear, and tshirts out at night or before the sun came up in the morning. The dew definately made them brighter and whiter.

Saxywildcat
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05-30-2005

Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 9:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saxywildcat a private message Print Post    
I tried so hard to wait until we got some drying weather outside to do laundry this week, but I couldn't wait any longer. DH needed clean work clothes and mine needed to be cleaned as well. So.. We're using the dryer tonight. I hope that I'll have good (no snow no rain) weather next time I need to do laundry.

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Friday, April 28, 2006 - 8:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
I just tie my things to the back of my car and zoom zoom zoom :-)

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, May 29, 2006 - 8:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
I'm old enough...?! I remember the wringer washer and pre-dryer days. Warm enough weather, everything was on the lines in the backyard. During winter months, the basement was strung with lines. Hadn't thought about that in years.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, May 29, 2006 - 7:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Same here, Colordeagua. We had washing hung all over our basement. And we still had that wringer washer when my mother died in 1967 and I took over the washing duties. And not a fancy one, like the later models. This was manual fill. And manual empty. LOL.

Biloxibelle
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12-21-2001

Monday, May 29, 2006 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biloxibelle a private message Print Post    
I love to hang clothes out to dry. My all time favorite was hanging Kevins diapers out on the line. Of course that was 25 years ago.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Monday, May 29, 2006 - 10:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
My mother hung all our clothes and linens on the line every Monday of every week of the year with the exception of heavy rain days. I can remember bringing in frozen stiff items that she just rolled up in a basket waiting for the drudgery of ironing on Tuesday, yep every week.

My clothesline has been reburied and recemented twice in the last 25 years along with being restrung with new lines. The drought conditions around here don't help keep them straight up.

We've always used the lines except less in the last few years when conditions were not good, because there was so much construction on the highway and the south wind blew the dust all over.

Here's a hint for your fitted sheets:
Fold the sheet in half tucking two corners into the folds of the other two corners. Hang on the line. When you take the sheet down, fold the sheet from the sewn point of the corner to the other point. Complete folding with the folded part of the sides inside the sheet it will lie flat and neat.

Yes, it is a fact that fabric softener reduces towel absorbancy.