Isn't this special!! Hang out your laundry and return to the days of old. Funny, with every picture I've seen of Algore's masion, or John Edward's mansion, or Barbra's mansion, I've never seen a clothesline. Oh, that's just for us, the "other America" doesn't have to do it. The NYT has become such a b.s. rag.

NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal

If these environuts were all in one place, with no economic interaction with the rest of the world, and lived according to the way they say everyone else should live, they'd be dead within a generation.

Oh no I'm doomed! I plan on hanging most of my laundry this summer for economic reasons course it all depends on the weather.. right now as I sit typing the wind is howling by at a cool 50mph whipping up my 2plus acre parcel of sand all about. I had a clean tablecloth on my patio it is now a sand box. My question is what fresh smell? I live in the rural part of my city two cows live across the street at least a dozen horses and corrals surround my parcel as do chickens and roosters.. ooh yeah fresh smell??

AM I the only one who read this article about a gal growing growing up in mining land and wondered how the sheets were white? My grandmother used a clothesline in her appt in brooklyn it hung from the window across the alley with a pulley system. She also washed her clothes by hand.. from what i remember she always smelled of mothballs. I grew up with a clothesline that I had the *joy* of using daily. I can remember shooing away birds and trying not to run through the clothes as one would invariably get stuck and knock off clothes/sheets that would have to be rewashed. I also recall hoping birds wouldn't nest and having to avoid extreme weather and water hoses.

After rereading what I just typed I have to wonder why do I plan to hang clothes this summer myself? oh right to cut my electric bill. hmm perhaps a few lines strategically placed throughout my front room would be a better use of time I could burn scented home interior candles to make us all smell nice.

~lbcdawn Religion is about doing. Christianity is about done.

How long before we see the maids of the movie stars hanging up the laundry in back of some those mansions? 

Is Martha Stewart coming out with her own line of designer clotheslines?

What's next, washboards and rocks down by the creek?

I'm Waiting...

Reduce the U.S. Carbon Footprint.  Send Rosie to Iran.  Airforce_5_O 04/04/2007

"...Al Gore, who says that when you have time, you should..."

Wait a minute... I thought living green wasn't dependent on convenience, I thought it was something we have to do otherwise we will kill the planet!

Drying clothes on a clothes line is a nice idea, but not practical in many areas. I lived in the Fiji Islands for two years, for 6 months every year on the leeward side of the main island you could put your clothes on a line (under cover...or even indoors) and they still wouldn't be dry 2 days later because of the humidity and cooler rainy weather. Many times we had to supplement the drying with an oscillating fan to get them to dry in one day. Line-drying clothes in Fiji isn't always optimal, but they do it because only the super wealthy (which is very few people there) had clothes dryers or washing machines.

I currently live in Eastern New Mexico. If I hang my clothes outside to dry they would be dry in about 30 minutes but, the clothes will end up dirtier than they were before I washed them. With the dust and wind in this area it's just stupid to hang clothes out to dry.

BTW, what about the washing machine? They use lots of energy and water too. Shouldn't the environmentalists be telling us to hand-wash our clothes in a basin? That's what I did while in Fiji...hand washing a week's worth of just my own clothing/bedding took at least 3 hours. How many of the environmentalists have that much time on their hands?

In reality, I would really love to hang my clothes to dry...as I stated before, here in NM it would take less than half the time the dryer takes and it would reduce my electricty costs substantially. It just isn't a viable option for me.

As for those that must succumb to home owner's associations, boo-hoo...you should've bought a house in an area that is immune from oppressive policies.

"I'd rather be bald than to pretend that I'm not!" --Mean Gene Dr. Love on comb-overs.

Yeah like this would work real well in the Pacific Northwest where it rains 9 months out of the year and forget about basements. If your basement doesn't flood it stays way too moist in the summer. There is a reason we call the unofficial state flower of Washington moss.

All I could think of when reading this article was the exposition in Stephen King's "Delores Claiborne" where she describes hanging bedsheets in freezing weather with 6 pins, not just 4, as the old hag she works for yells out the bedroom window. But any self-respecting person would never draw a parallel between the good doctor Gore and an old hag.

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