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So small you'll laugh, but it makes me happy
« on: April 24, 2014, 08:17:17 AM »
Check out my awesome new clothesline in the back yard! :)

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Re: So small you'll laugh, but it makes me happy
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2014, 08:34:01 AM »
Doesn't look small and it looks normal.

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Re: So small you'll laugh, but it makes me happy
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2014, 09:08:24 AM »
I think OP meant it was a small step in their trek to Mustachianism, not necessarily that the line itself was small.

In that case: great job, ysette9! It's more than we've been able to do. Our HOA would flip out at a clothes line, unfortunately, and we haven't quite figured out how to put a line in our house without it getting cat hair all over it. :-)

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« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2014, 09:18:41 AM »
Nice!

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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2014, 09:52:14 AM »
It's more than we've been able to do. Our HOA would flip out at a clothes line, unfortunately, and we haven't quite figured out how to put a line in our house without it getting cat hair all over it. :-)

Surely if it's in the back or side yard, and not out in front, you can tell the HOA to suck it?

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« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2014, 10:02:13 AM »
It's more than we've been able to do. Our HOA would flip out at a clothes line, unfortunately, and we haven't quite figured out how to put a line in our house without it getting cat hair all over it. :-)

Surely if it's in the back or side yard, and not out in front, you can tell the HOA to suck it?

I don't know, I've heard they can be pretty crazy about it. man, I would hate that shit so much!

I like your clothesline, ysette! really most progress is just a bunch of little steps :)

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Re: So small you'll laugh, but it makes me happy
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2014, 10:03:56 AM »
Nice!  I'm going to have to do this when we move into our new place.  Glad we don't have an HOA! Lol

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« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2014, 12:42:25 PM »
It's more than we've been able to do. Our HOA would flip out at a clothes line, unfortunately, and we haven't quite figured out how to put a line in our house without it getting cat hair all over it. :-)

Surely if it's in the back or side yard, and not out in front, you can tell the HOA to suck it?

I don't know, I've heard they can be pretty crazy about it. man, I would hate that shit so much!

I like your clothesline, ysette! really most progress is just a bunch of little steps :)

Have you thought about putting a retractable clothesline in your shower? 

I have a rotating display rack I use for craft shows and I sometimes hang things from that in my shower.  Also, I have some hooks that I draped over the edge of my shower (It is an enclosed shower) and I can dry some things with that.  I'm in a townhome and have an HOA as well, so no clothesline for me (not that I probably would anyway because I would leave clothes there for days and forget about them)

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Re: So small you'll laugh, but it makes me happy
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2014, 01:20:29 PM »
"So small you'll laugh, but it makes me happy"


Awww, your poor significant other.... oh. Never mind.   :)
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« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2014, 02:01:14 PM »
Awww, your poor significant other.... oh. Never mind.   :)

I have to confess, I went there too.

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« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2014, 04:01:33 PM »
Nice.
I so detest HOAs that not being encumbered by one was our biggest criteria when house hunting.   

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« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2014, 10:26:11 PM »
Awww, your poor significant other.... oh. Never mind.   :)

I have to confess, I went there too.

So did I!  Seventh grade feels like it happened yesterday =).

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« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2014, 10:42:58 PM »
Awww, your poor significant other.... oh. Never mind.   :)

I have to confess, I went there too.

haha, you're great! I hadn't gone down that path since I'm female myself, but thanks for dragging my mind back down into the gutter. Things were at risk of getting boring there.

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Re: So small you'll laugh, but it makes me happy
« Reply #13 on: April 24, 2014, 11:19:00 PM »
Check out my awesome new clothesline in the back yard! :)

Or to be super chic/pretentious about it: your new solar clothes dryer!

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« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2014, 02:10:07 AM »
Hmm, since I heard about them I've always thought that some of the laws that America has against drying clothes outside odd.  In Australia if you have a backyard it is pretty standard for there to be a clotheline in there, I would actually consider it as odd if there wasn't one...  For that matter the smaller apartment blocks that I have lived in have had communal washing lines for drying your clothes.  Although I think the high rise apartment blocks don't have this facility.

I'm given to understand that some Body Corporate/Strata (equivalent of HOA) places don't like you to be hanging your clothes on your balcony outside here thoguh, but I believe these are in the minority.  Getting an air conditioner installed in a place is an entirely different issue though...

As a question is having a clotheline particularly unusual in America or does it depend on where you live?

Here smaller backyards tend to have folding ones e.g.:
http://www.bunnings.com.au/our-range/storage-cleaning/laundry/clotheslines/folding

While larger ones have rotary ones e.g. (Though I think rotary lines are perhaps becoming less common):
http://www.bunnings.com.au/our-range/storage-cleaning/laundry/clotheslines/rotary

I haven't noticed his sheddiness (my housemates cat) getting too much fur on my housemates clothes from hanging them up, or when I have hung them up I haven't noticed a lot of fur.  She generally uses one like this:
http://www.bunnings.com.au/hills-simplicity-plus-expandable-clothes-airer_p4510229

and for overflow ones like these:
http://www.bunnings.com.au/apex-20-rail-wire-coated-clothes-airer_p4510093

They are problematic for larger items such as sheets and towels though.

Him brushing against you or sitting on something he sits on is an entirely different matter...

Oh also, I"m not sure if this is perhaps relevant to some with HOA's? http://daily.sightline.org/2012/02/21/clothesline-bans-void-in-19-states/
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« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2014, 02:11:21 AM »
Check out my awesome new clothesline in the back yard! :)

Or to be super chic/pretentious about it: your new solar clothes dryer!

Perhaps thats the solution: Ask the HOA in writing (no back question) if you can use a solar and wind powered cloth dryer...  ;)

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« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2014, 04:37:19 AM »
Awww, your poor significant other.... oh. Never mind.   :)

I have to confess, I went there too.

So did I!  Seventh grade feels like it happened yesterday =).

I was just happy to see this wasn't MrsHybrid posting...

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« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2014, 06:35:43 AM »
Hmm, since I heard about them I've always thought that some of the laws that America has against drying clothes outside odd.  In Australia if you have a backyard it is pretty standard for there to be a clotheline in there, I would actually consider it as odd if there wasn't one...  For that matter the smaller apartment blocks that I have lived in have had communal washing lines for drying your clothes.  Although I think the high rise apartment blocks don't have this facility.

I'm given to understand that some Body Corporate/Strata (equivalent of HOA) places don't like you to be hanging your clothes on your balcony outside here thoguh, but I believe these are in the minority.  Getting an air conditioner installed in a place is an entirely different issue though...

As a question is having a clotheline particularly unusual in America or does it depend on where you live?

Oh also, I"m not sure if this is perhaps relevant to some with HOA's? http://daily.sightline.org/2012/02/21/clothesline-bans-void-in-19-states/

Hmm. I'm not sure I would describe them as "particularly unusual" (at least places where I've lived) but they definitely aren't assumed to be the norm, the way they are in Australia (based on your description, as well as my limited experience in NZ which I'd think might be similar?) Many older homes that I've seen have the metal clothesline poles in the backyard, even if the current residents don't use them. My parents never had an outdoor clothesline when I was growing up, just one in the laundry room that was used for things that couldn't be put in the dryer.

I think rules against them are so absolutely ridiculously stupid, though. Very interesting article that you posted, thanks! I am lucky that in my neighborhood, in our pink (!) rental house with several clotheslines and a mishmash of lawn furniture, we are the LEAST of the eyesores on the block :) (think abandoned houses, hoarders who even hoard on their front porch, and neighbors with a smoker and several cars in various stages of repair out front... LOL)

Now you've got me wondering... is it a North American thing? Canadians, are clotheslines commonplace up there?

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« Reply #18 on: April 25, 2014, 10:00:28 AM »
Um, I'm not sure, we are pretty varied.  Most of my houses have had clotheslines, only one was zoned against, but I put an umbrella clothesline up in the back yard where no-one could see it.

Here it is more the weather - it's hard to do in -20C, things freeze before they dry, and so do you as you hang them out.  We can have a lot of humid or rainy weather in the summer too, which means dining the laundry first thing so it has all day to dry, and watching to make sure it doesn't get rained on.  Good weather forecasts are essential ;-)

We do it though - my neighbour and I were were saying last week how happy we were, we both had our first laundry of the season out on our lines.

I have the stands for indoor drying and use them all winter, the only things that get the dryer are sheets (flannelette is slow to dry) and towels (part way, they can finish hung up).  I can't be the only one doing this, there are lots of stores that sell them.


Now you've got me wondering... is it a North American thing? Canadians, are clotheslines commonplace up there?

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« Reply #19 on: April 25, 2014, 10:06:14 AM »
I have clotheslines strung right across my basement. Love them!! Use them primarily for all my delicates.

I do have an outdoor clothesline and have not turned mustachian enough to use it. Weirdly enough, I like the feel and softness of clothes from a dryer. many of my line hung stuff is too stiff. Maybe I'm not doing it right?

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« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2014, 06:26:48 AM »
We're in a 6-unit townhouse community that only begrudgingly started using recycling bins as of last year (keep in mind that they're provided by the county--just couldn't get anyone else except for us to use the damn things), so I think outdoor clotheslines might take some extra years of persuasion.

I hadn't realized there were various kinds of indoor clotheslines...our cat isn't allowed in our bedroom or the guest bedroom, so if I could find one that folds up nicely when not in use, we might have a winner. Thanks for the suggestions!

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« Reply #21 on: April 28, 2014, 02:37:08 PM »
"So small you'll laugh, but it makes me happy"


Awww, your poor significant other.... oh. Never mind.   :)

hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! I love it!!!!

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« Reply #22 on: May 07, 2014, 06:46:32 PM »
I think the problem of clotheslines not being allowed tends to occur in new developments with HOAs, HOA dues, and lots of rules. We are in an old/established neighborhood now with no HOA so we can pretty much do whatever doesn't break city codes or drives our neighbors nuts.

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« Reply #23 on: May 08, 2014, 12:02:50 PM »
Awesome !

We just went a summer without a drier(ours broke) but needed to get one again as autumn came on and cloud cover started moving below our house.

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« Reply #24 on: June 06, 2014, 07:03:29 PM »
Canadians, are clotheslines commonplace up there?

I can only speak for two places. In Newfoundland, so many people still hang clothes out to dry (despite our climate) that hanging laundry features in our tourism commercials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnEjWhg9fMY

And in Ontario, it's actually *illegal* to ban outdoor clotheslines! Hell yeah!
http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-premier-lifts-outdoor-clothesline-ban-1.290136

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« Reply #25 on: June 08, 2014, 03:11:24 AM »
Your clothesline looks great! We have 2 of these drying racks http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/10177178/ on our laundry room wall and they work wonderfully for indoor drying.

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« Reply #26 on: June 10, 2014, 06:09:15 AM »
Awesome !

We just went a summer without a drier(ours broke) but needed to get one again as autumn came on and cloud cover started moving below our house.
When I was kid we would do a mix of line drying and drier drying. Lost the drier one winter and things where tight enough it stayed broken for a few years.

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« Reply #27 on: June 10, 2014, 08:38:14 AM »

I haven't noticed his sheddiness (my housemates cat) getting too much fur on my housemates clothes from hanging them up, or when I have hung them up I haven't noticed a lot of fur.  She generally uses one like this:
http://www.bunnings.com.au/hills-simplicity-plus-expandable-clothes-airer_p4510229

I have two cats and they shed constantly. I just read that putting in a 1-2 Tbsp of white vinegar in with the regular wash / detergent is supposed to help the cat hair from clinging to clothes - I have the issue of pulling out fresh clothes from the washer, putting it on the dryer rack and still having to de-lint them, even when we keep the rack outside where the cats don't go (and even when the clothes go in the dryer).

I am going to try this today and see if it works.

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« Reply #28 on: June 11, 2014, 03:13:21 AM »
I'll use the line almost year round here. Even though it might take a few days in winter (a week if it's wet). Too hot in summer to heat up the house with a dryer :)

Hell, the last two places I lived in didn't even have one!

I do tend to use the dryer for sheets because I find it's better at removing cat hair.