Really hate using using electricity to run a clothes dryer! Several years ago I made a covered area so that my female Rat terriers would go outside to do their business in the rainy weather. This space seemed like a good place to hang clothes outside to dry on rainy days. It seems that whenever it rains we also get wind, so today I assembled this hanger from a bunch of odds and ends that were laying around. The only thing that I had to buy was the small boat winch to raise and lower the frame. There's the equivalent of 70 feet of clothes line on this frame.
Does the clothes get really stiff? My Mom used a clothesline in the summer, maybe still does. I remember clothes ending up stiff as cardboard or sorta stretched out funny depending on how it was hung up. Bath towels seemed to be the worst.
The conventional outdoor lines in this picture are the best. With the wind we get here, clothes are soft and wrinkle free and very few items even need to be pressed and they smell so good. This indoor model is in the workroom next to the boiler room and gets lots of heat in the winter time. Items dry soft but some shirts do need to be pressed. Have another 120 feet of clothes line near the ceiling of my work room for drying sheets and towels in the wet season.
Woodwidow still works so being retired that makes me the house husband a little creativity can be fun.
I had did some number crunching a while back and for 3-4 loads a week it would save me about $4 a month of gas/electric to not use the dryer. I'm sure with a big family it could add up though.
And a lot of people have never experienced them or even know what your talking about... Can you even buy clothes pins anymore?
Last couple years, I've gone out to get towels and sheets off the line, and found a couple ticks on them. How they got there, I have no idea. I quit hanging clothes for a while. I'd love to continue, but the ticks need to be on their merry way first. Love the smell of clothes from the clothesline, even if they are a little tough to fold. Our electric dryer use use is about 1/3 of the bill, and amounts to about 80 cents/day.....give or take a couple cents. Oh, and although stores still sell clothespins, they're usually out of stock. Might need to order online. You can get any thing you want, At Amazon's restaurant.
Ticks from the cloths hanging out. horror story. I'm very paranoid about ticks. One trip to hell from them is enough for a lifetime.
My cousin did better than that Dave. He found over a dozen down in the "zone" after walking in the woods last spring with his honey. He sounded shocked when he told me the story. Just like us, he just can't believe there had been so many on him. Obviously, he just got into a cluster of em... but damm. All over your boys can't be fun. Now I'm squirmin' like a kid sittin' on a hot woodstove...
Progress report , at this time of the year for rainy days this cloths line works if there is wind . Then to be sure that every thing is totally dry overnight on the indoor hanger . Like the t- shirt , eh .
