Incentive for line-drying clothes!

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  • momof2maygirls
  on Apr. 30, 2009 at 11:33 AM

• LOL HOW FUN. DURING THE VERY HOT DAYS OF SUMMER, I HATE TO HANG THEM OUT SINCE BY THE TIME TO TAKE THEM DOWN IT'S VERY HOT AND HUMMID, SO I DON'T. MAYBE A LITTLE INNCENTIVE IS WHAT I NEED....LOL.
  

  

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  • blondenak
  on May. 1, 2009 at 11:45 PM

• I LOVE my clothes line!  DH built it for me last spring, and I've had a few days nice enough to hang clothes in April.

  By the time I'm done hanging a load and check on the washer, the line-dry clothes are done!  It's soooo much faster to hang them here in the summer (Northern NV).  Plus it really helps me get the laundry folded/sorted instead of sitting in a basket on the couch.    I'll join in your challenge, tho.  Always nice to have some sort of "pay" from my "day job"!

   

  Alicia in NV

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  • mommy2bryson
  on May. 2, 2009 at 8:44 AM

• I would love to have a clothes line outside..  But my husband will not help me do it.. He is 6'8 and appartenly always ran into them when he was a kid at home and refuses to do it at his own house... lol.. I am still working on him though!

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  • mee2007
  on May. 4, 2009 at 12:19 AM

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  Quoting mommy2bryson:
  
  

  I would love to have a clothes line outside..  But my husband will not help me do it.. He is 6'8 and appartenly always ran into them when he was a kid at home and refuses to do it at his own house... lol.. I am still working on him though!

  Have you ever seen the retractable clothes lines? That's what we have and it's great because when we're not using it, you can just retract it back into it's little housing and it's out of the way. There was one like that on our house when we moved in, but it was broken. I loved the idea of it so much that DH found me a replacement for it. We bought ours at a local hardware store, but here's a link to it online in case you're interested in seeing what it looks like. Yes, it's pricey at first, but it will pay for itself after awhile. Just an idea... :o)

  http://www.amazon.com/Whitney-15-7-Outdoor-Retractable-Clothes/dp/B0000BYDEA
  

    Mary Ellen ~ Mommy to Eleanor & Catelyn (6/11/07)
                                           Step-Mom to K (12/91) & T (10/92)
  

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  • paytonleximomma
  on May. 5, 2009 at 11:06 AM

• Last spring out dryer died so the whole spring and summer we used the clothesline to dry clothes.  Then we brokedown and bought a dryer.   This summer I doubt I will ever use the dryer.  I love haning my clothes on the clothesline.  I probably wont even use my dryer until September maybe October.  Seriously, I HATE THE DRYER, uses to much electricity and why not use nature to dry your clothes.  Last summer alone I didnt use the dryer or use the AC and our utlitliy bill which includes water, garbage, sewer, recycling, electricity and gas was only about $80 a month for the summer and most of the fall.  I turn my heat off in mid-April and dont turn it on until late October.  Call me crazy but I love the easy ways to save money.

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  • proudmommymel2
  on May. 5, 2009 at 11:11 AM

• we hang our cloths on theline even during the winter...but we live in florida! I guess up north your clothes would turn to ice lol
  

  

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  • kidz440
  on May. 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM

• I love hanging my clothes out on the line to dry.  Even during the winter I have a clothes rack in the house.  My parents bought it for me when we go married.  The amish made it and it is very durable.  Very good incentive I'll have to try that to see how many times I hung up clothes. Good for you!!

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  • mee2007
  on May. 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM

• Ha ha...I live in upstate NY, so here's the funny scenario in my head if I tried to line dry clothes during the winter. First, bundle up in coat, hat, mittens, boots. Trudge out through about 2 feet of snow on the ground, to my retractable clothesline, scrape the ice and snow off it to try to get it unfrozen, at which point my clothes would already be frozen solid, hee hee...
  

  Quoting proudmommymel2:
  
  

  we hang our cloths on theline even during the winter...but we live in florida! I guess up north your clothes would turn to ice lol
  

  
  

    Mary Ellen ~ Mommy to Eleanor & Catelyn (6/11/07)
                                           Step-Mom to K (12/91) & T (10/92)
  

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  • mirandar2001
  on May. 7, 2009 at 7:45 PM

•  I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO HANG CLOTHES... UNFORTUNATELY OUR CONDO OWNER'S ASSOCIATION DOESN'T ALLOW.. I DO HAVE 2 WOODEN RACKS ON MY PATIO AND FILL THOSE THEN PUT THE REST IN THE DRYER.

   

  

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  • paula405
  on May. 8, 2009 at 1:10 PM

• I just got a dryer rack to put outside so we could save on the dyrer. How much energy does the dryer use anyway? My husband thinks it's dumb but I want to try to save energ and the dryer is loud-on top of the kids running around.

  Anyway so far everything except socks/underwear has been on the drying rack. I don't need the wind carrying our undies throughout the neighbor hood(i live in a townhouse/condo an can't have a clothes line so I put the rack on the porch)

   

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