I just did something I never thought I would do

ToastieSimons · January 2012

My laundry is hanging out on the clothesline...In January! Normally it's about 20 degrees and wet (we live off a Great Lake and get crazy lake effect snow all winter).

It's 45 and there is not a cloud in the sky. Crazy.

PeonyPumps · January 2012

This makes me super jealous

My neighborhood association has a rule that we can't have clotheslines. I keep telling my H we are moving to a farm in the country next!

Twirple · January 2012

I would love to do this. We can't have a clothes line either, which stinks! Even if we could, it's 10 degrees out today. I don't want my laundry frozen.

dieselmonkey · January 2012

We had the "no clothesline" rule too, but i just took out an expandable drying rack. that way i could run it in real quick if needed.

PeonyPumps · January 2012

dieselmonkey:
We had the "no clothesline" rule too, but i just took out an expandable drying rack. that way i could run it in real quick if needed.

Lol. I just have a picture in my head of a person very stealthily trying to hide their rack full of undies when the law cracks down!

Switzerland87 · January 2012

I don't have a clothes line, since I'm in a 6th floor apartment, but I actually contemplated going swimming in our outdoor pool today, when the temp hit 75! Alas, I'm out of sunblock.

I swear, this has been the weirdest winter!

daenikoffre · January 2012

We have the no clothes line rule, too. But the landlady's sister has clothes hanging on hangers from her balcony, so I put drying racks out in the garden and bring them in when they're done. She hasn't said anything after 2 years, so I guess we're okay.

davisas2323 · January 2012

We're not allowed to have a clothesline in our yard either, but they never said anything about the deck! I'm going to put a retractable line on the patio of our deck, but was going to wait until Spring. Also registered for an enormous drying rack so I can hang the CDs and my husband's cycling clothes (all have to be line dried).

We also have a line inside running diagonally across the laundry room (small). One side is tied to the shelf above the washer, the other end loops over the door hinge on the opposite wall. Getting ready to hang four pairs of jeans on there, but it does make it a pain to work in there while things are drying. Stupid HOAs.

mrssunshine12 · January 2012

I've never dried clothes outside before... mostly because growing up my sister had major allergies to every kind of pollen and animal so my mother always used the drier or hung things up in the bathroom, but also because I'm paranoid that being outside they'll get dirty. You know, bird poop, blowing dust, crazy squirrels.

I agree about the weird winter though. Usually by now it's gotten super cold at least once. I'm beginning to wonder whether we're going to have winter at all.

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