Or our laundry!
Sunday has become laundry day at our house and since we don't have a dryer it also depends on the weather. Thankfully Sundays have been sunny and rain free...until this week. Pat and I had just had put up our 2nd load of laundry when we looked up and saw some dark clouds. I was convinced that it would just go around us but as I was doing some other stuff outside I started to realize it was not going to go around us but was going to hit us in mere seconds.
I called Pat outside and we hurried to get the clothes off the line. Looking back at it now we should have just left out the dark stuff because it was already pretty wet from just coming out of the washer but lesson learned.
Once we got the clothes in we had the problem of where to put the clothes. I guess I should say I had the problem. I started hanging shirts up wherever there was room and made sure they were either hanging over a register or I had a fan running in the bathroom that I put quite a few items in front of. Ball shorts and socks were hung over the edge of our laundry baskets and a fan was put in front of them as well.
We had to leave to go to Steven's birthday/welcome home party but when we got home most of our clothes were dry thank goodness. There were just a few shirts that had some wet sleeves still from where another shirt had been hanging in front of it.
This whole post leads me to write a list of things I have learned about drying clothes on the line since we didn't do it when I was little.
1. Don't leave your laundry basket outside thinking that it will save you a trip later. Ants are climbers and will get into your basket, you will then carry them into the house and possibly onto your bed.
2. You will need more clothespins then you will ever think.
3. Don't hang t-shirts by the sleeves, they don't dry as well if you would just hang them from the bottom.
4. Get something to hang on your line to keep your clothespins in. It becomes a pain to bend down to get them out of a container of the ground.
5. Don't keep the clothes up too long into the night or the dew sets in and you are back to having wet clothes.
I know most of these are common sense but they aren't things I even thought of until they happened to me!
3 comments:
your post was just what i needed this morning. my grandma has hung their clothes on the line for as long as i can remember.
her clothespin holder is a old towel, somehow sewn onto a hanger that she hangs on the line while hanging her clothes.
Loved this! I hang our stuff out as often as possible in the summer, and long into the fall.
One more thing to remember: I don't know how windy it is on your side of the hill, but on our side I have to be mindful of the wind - I've had clothes become quite misshapen due to high winds while they were on the line (especially the t-shirts when hung by the bottom - they end up very wide at the waist, or very stretched to one side).
Did you find something to put your pins in that stays on the line? I made a new clothespin bag on Friday - going to try it out today; if it works I can make another if you still need one.
Emily,
Glad you enjoyed it! I am sorry again about your great-grandma!
Kecia,
I have found some plans to make one. I just need to find the time!Thanks for the offer!
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