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  I grew up with clothes lines!!!

  Hey Being a Brit it's kind of in your genes to use a clothesline ALL year round. I too live in the Pacific NW where it rains more than in Blighty...yep it does I spoke to my Dad today and it's in the 70'-80's over there!! During the winter and the rain my Mum would string a never ending clothes line under our carport and our clothes would hang out there all day. Come the evening they would be transfered into the house and our stock pile of coat hangers would come out  and everything from our undies to shirts were pegged or hung over the hangers. The hangers were then hung over door frames, heaters, hooks, etc. in fact pretty much anywhere inside the house where they would stay. Sometimes I felt like I lived in a Chinese laundrey, but when your dont poscess a drier you have to improvise the best you can. In fact it was not till 1990 when I came to the States that I met these energy consuming things you call driers!! I do pocess a drier but if I can get away without using it then I do, I have a indoor clothes horse and an outside whirly drier (we call them that as they whirl around in the wind.) A couple of years ago I spoke to PUD regarding my energy consumption, and they said that compared to most families of four we use a 3rd less energy than the average family. My Mum was born in 1929 and went through rationing and living in London in the 2nd world war, she nagged at us if we walked out of a room and left a single light bulb on...I now do the same with my family, I guess it's all what you grew up with!!!   On Umbra on clotheslines posted 4 years, 5 months ago 9 Responses