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Old 10/22/08, 01:35 PM
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Guess what I've done for the last two days!
I've been hanging clothes on my new clothesline! WOOHOO...it has to be my favorite household chore and I haven't gotten to do it in YEARS. LOL...hubby said if he'd known how happy a clothesline would make me he'd have put it up a long time ago (I've been begging for one over four years now).
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Old 10/22/08, 02:21 PM
 
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I love to smell my clothes after they dried on the line.
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Old 10/22/08, 02:43 PM
 
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Awww! I'm jealous! For some silly reason we haven't put ours up yet. Ok...gotta get to work on that now...
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Old 10/22/08, 02:45 PM
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madness...it took me four years to get one!
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Old 10/22/08, 03:16 PM
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OHHHHHHH! I love my clothesline.
I just hate to see winter come. I hang our on the sunny days of winter and the sheets are so nice to smell on the bed.
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Old 10/22/08, 04:15 PM
 
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My son built me the Taj Mahal of clotheslines this year and I love to hang out the laundry....son now comes and hangs his laundry out,too..trying to beat a predicted rainstorm tonite with his right now. He goes to the laundromat and brings it home as has a very shallow well. Hasband claims I'm washing the sheets to death just so they'll have that outdoor smell! DEE who has a little perch built on one end of the clotheline for a ceramic bird that was my mama's...son likes to build all things funky....his mailbox is a curvy post from the woods with grapevines wrapped around it. DEE
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Old 10/22/08, 04:43 PM
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Mutti...we have a mailbox post like that! I love it.
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Old 10/22/08, 05:04 PM
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Hey, guess what, Ravenlost? I got my new clothesline up today, too. I'm so excited!
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Old 10/22/08, 05:40 PM
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WooHoo!!!
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Old 10/22/08, 09:28 PM
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I'm so jealous. I want a clothesline so bad. I'm going to ask for it for my birthday next month. Then I'd wish I had a back door so I wouldn't have to carry the basket of clothes out the front door and all the way to the back yard. Guess I need the exercise though.
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Old 10/23/08, 06:25 AM
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AR, I got mine from Amazon (with FREE shipping!). It's a "Whitney Design 3000 30-Line Outdoor Parallel-Style Clothes Dryer with Aluminum Arms." It's not an umbrella-type, but it IS a single pole. I was impressed that it got such good reviews on Amazon. I had been wanting a clothesline, but didn't want a long elaborate contraption in the backyard. For this one, I just dug a deep hole, planted the plastic sleeve, and backfilled with Quickrete. The pole has retractable arms, and I can remove it from the sleeve for mowing if I want to. Will let y'all know about its sturdyness AFTER I hang out some clothes on the thing!
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Old 10/23/08, 07:12 AM
 
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LOL! Me too! I waited 20 years for mine!!!!! Mine is plastic coated wire on pulleys between the house and a tree. I'm having so much fun with it that we're planning to put up another! LOL!
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Old 10/23/08, 08:27 AM
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I've always had clotheslines.... Until now, since we just moved 2 weeks ago.... DH promises that they'll be up soon.... I've been going to my MIL's (5 houses up), just to hang mine....

Congrats to everyone that is able to hang clothes out....
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Old 10/23/08, 09:04 AM
 
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Wonderful! I loved lined dried clothes to.
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Old 10/23/08, 01:58 PM
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I love hanging my laundry out too! Even during the winter in Alaska the clothes get dry eventually.... from being "freeze-dried"!

Mine is pretty low-tech. I took a hank of clothesline and ran it from one tree, tied it, and off to the next until I ran out of line! We don't get many breezy days so it works better to spread everything out.
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Old 10/23/08, 02:10 PM
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It's raining today so I have to take a break from hanging out clothes. I'll be back out there tomorrow though!
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Old 10/23/08, 03:27 PM
 
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AR Cattails:
Maybe you could use a window in lieu of a back door? Put a table under it so you can just lean out the window and put the basket there, then pick it up on your way around the house to the clothes line?

Snowshoehair:
One of my lines is really low tech. too. It’s a non-functioning extension cord wrapped around my porch pillars. I hang wet clothes on hangers there with clothes pins in between to keep the sliding action to a minimum. The porch roof keeps the rain off the clothes. If the wrinkles don’t fall out within a few hours, I leave that one over night so the humidity can have a go at the wrinkles.
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Old 10/23/08, 04:32 PM
 
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Whats the next best thing to heaven???

Going to bed in nice line dried sheets and pillowcases...oh the smell...

I'll never get rid of my clothesline..
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