RIGHT TO DRY Movement: Conservationists or Fanatical Revolutionary Monsters?

Dys - hiss!

On the drying thing, I've heard of this for several years in many places, usually tracts with strong homeowners' associations/restrictions... ridiculous of course.

Just read ehBeth's post.. I'll edit my several years to thirty!

Just curious: do any of you American folk dry your clothes outside?
One gets the (possibly quite incorrect) impression that everyone uses an electric clothes drier for the purpose.

I would agree that gas (more than electric) dryers are almost universal.

That's interesting, Roger.
I'm wondering what that is.
I'd have thought, especially in the US states with lots of sunshine all year round (like say, California), that outdoor clotheslines would make perfect sense.

I built an overhead trellis for a climbing rose, with a bench, and at the top put a clothes' rod - used that to dry most clothes most of the year... back when I lived in Venice, California. If I did it again I'd use a clothesline so that I could use spring clips to hold the hangers, if there were a chance of wind (hangers twirl on a regular closet rod in the wind).

Here in Albuquerque I could do that again except my whole back patio columns and roof need rebuilding, and cost is a factor. Also, it's often windy or wintery here. But, the air is dry, so I often dry some stuff on the bathroom shower curtain rod, and the remainder in my gas dryer. I tend to take clothes out early and whap the wrinkles out and hang them up/closet immediately. No mold problem here.

I confess, i confess.

We dont have a clothes dryer. We have a rotary clothes line in the backyard.
and a drying frame that we hoist to the ceiling.

Adds, in northern california by the ocean, with temps a high of 53 in winter and 63 in summer, and a sun that was often obscured by fog or low clouds, I had a steel clothesline from house to garage. Used it a some but not always - mostly in the summer.

Same here, dp!
And I don't plan to ever own one, either.
Nothing wrong with the ol' Hills Hoist, I say!
What a brilliant invention!

no - I was trying to figure out what "yuppies" had to do with anything in regard to this

the folks who came up with the first anti-clothesline restrictions that I know about were far too old to be yuppies

I did not have a clothes dryer until late 2007 when I moved into this house. Guess what? It broke. God is punishing me.

No, god was telling you you didn't need it!

levittown

Most homes/households (not including apartments) have the washer/dryer combination. Still, many actually use clothes lines to dry their clothes (those residing in the suburb and rural parts of the US) when the weather is reasonable (of course).

Levi Strauss & Co. are entering in to the discussion about the right to line dry! They're hosting a design challenge to change the conversation around line drying, and question the proposition they are unsightly! Would love to see y'all over there! http://myoocreate.com/challenges/care-to-air-design-challenge

Cool.

I'm really of the opinion that energy conservation that people actually do, and do without government subsidy, is what is going to be most useful.

Yay! Good going, Levi Strauss! Clever marketing, too! :



http://myoocreate.com/challenges/care-to-air-design-challenge