Winter Clothesline
posted by Jenna at 3:59 PM
Sunday, December 23, 2012
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- Name: Jenna
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13 Comments:
I've been thinking about getting rid of our dryer... Do you not have one?
And happy holiday, Jenna. It sounds like it's gonna be a great one!
I want to know how this works out, too. We've been using the dryer since the weather got regularly below freezing, but if the line is working out for other snowbound homesteaders, why not us? I guess I could just try it...
And now I'm commenting a second time, only because I forgot to check the "email me follow-ups" box the first time.
Ditto Im curious too... I was wondering if you ever considered hanging a line indoors since you have both of those woodstoves and it would redistribute some (what I imagine from running our own woodstove) much needed humidity back into the air... also do your hands freeze terrible when hanging out... I would love to get rid of my electricity gobbling dryer...
Well, they freeze dry. Really. They freeze up there and get hard as, well, frozen cotton and linen. And then they slowly go from wet and frozen to dry and frozen and the stiffness leaves them.
Some Amish say that's how you know they are dry, they flap in the wind again! from planks to flags.
I have no working dryer. It broke last year and I decided it was a waste of electricity for a single person who works at home. If I had a family of 4 and only three hours to do laundry, it would be different!
I have a drying rack set up in an unobtrusive corner of my library, currently. Although I only hang dry woolens at the moment.
"If I had a family of 4 and only three hours to do laundry, it would be different!" Bummer... I now have your testimony that it works, but I have a family of six. :)
I haven't dried outside in the winter in years! I'll have to try it again! I normally use my drying rack indoors or the dryer. I didn't have a dryer for over 10 years, first because we rented and COULDN'T have one, and then because I chose not to. I admit I love my dryer, but now that the honeymoon period is over with it, I'm going back to more air drying.
I wash a load almost every night then hang it on our 2 clothes racks indoors then by the afternoon it"s dry and ready for the next load
I line-dry in the basement, where the washer is... plus it keeps my skivvies out of the neighbor's view. :-) In the summer I hang a line for most stuff on our porch... will have to try some outdoor drying for big stuff like sheets and such! It takes longer to dry inside in the winter (our place is really cold at the moment, so that doesn't help) but since we have a woodstove I figure the extra moisture can't hurt! Your clothes last a lot longer, plus no accidental shrinkage! We will be replacing our broken dryer at some point, as sometimes it's handy to be able to dry things quickly, or get the dog hair off of them... :-)
I like this photo,it has a real Andrew Wyeth vibe, ( my laundry just looks like laundry). When it gets cold here, (NE PA),we move indoors to the lines strung up across our second floor studio space, light the upstairs wood stove and everything dries much faster. Have a dryer that came with the house,never use it.
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I do the indoor dryer rack in winter for humidity purposes:) I'm amazed how effective it is and the benefit to adding moisture to the air is tangible. I'm anti-electricity for drying too.
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