My Mom had a wringer washer and a clothes line. Yes I am old & I want a clothes line again

[irisblue]

[bucolic_frolic]

1. There are folding dryer racks, usually 7 or so rods on a folding frame

Lot less work as one ages

[irisblue]

2. I got that

[zeusdogmom]

3. I'm glad I don't have to put clothes thru the wringer

But I still line dry everything. HOA says no clothes lines but I have a 40+ year old wooden drying rack which I fill with wet laundry and take the loaded rack out onto my deck for things to dry. No one has ever complained.

[irisblue]

9. A 75 minute dry to dry should not be underestimated

[claudette]

4. My mom also

had a wringer washer and hung up clothes to dry in our very large (unfinished) basement when the weather was not cooperative!
But, I admit, I like my automatic washer and dryer!

[Emile]

5. We still use an outdoor clothes line. Bed sheets

and pillow cases smell so good after being hung outdoors.

Brother-in-law made these clothesline poles in 1976 as a wedding gift. We saved a ton in electric bills over the years.

[KT2000]

6. love my clothesline

Love the clean scent, crispy sheets, and huge savings on electricity. Also, that lint in your dryer is your clothes wearing out.

[irisblue]

7. I used the wooden dryer racks to dry underwire bras, panties and cotton sweaters

Worked well

I had a favorite bra, with underwires(¿!) that lasted 8 yrs. The drying rack, it was the drying rack that kept me looking good.

[True Blue American]

14. I still have my wooden racks. Used them fo the same things you did.

Never put a bra In the dryer. And my first washer was a KENMORE WRINGER. TRADED FOR AN AUTOMATIC AS SEEN AS WE COULD AFFORD IT.
MY CURRENT IS A Maytag, stainless steel tub that is at least 35 or 40 yeard old. Still made right here in Ohio New Dishwasher all stainless I inside..Maytag. I am loyal😘

[DBoon]

8. it's not a clothes line

It is a solar clothes dryer

[True Blue American]

15. Right!

[Deuxcents]

16. Yes, and I miss having a solar dryer as I'm in a condo now

But first thing I asked for when we moved into our house, was my clothes line..loved having one

[dweller]

10. We had a tub/roller wringer washer

and clothesline when I was a kid … washer was in the basement.
My kid brother and I would run army men through the wringers 😃 but he got his fingers caught in it once, started screaming and my mom came thundering down the steps to the basement , rushed over and walloped the top of the wringer mechanism which popped it apart and freed him.
I was frozen watching the whole thing go down …

Ahhh childhood memories

😆



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[irisblue]

17. Is your brother ok? Sometimes dumbasses learn

I have 2 brothers, one learned. The other one spent 20 years in a state prison.

[dweller]

19. Oh yeah he's ok

He was maybe 5 or 6 yrs old at the time and healed right up . We joke about it now. He probably thought it was going to eat his arm, and I thought our mom was going to wallop me at the time … it was just one of many circumstances we got into growing up … by the time we were teens, the stories got weirder but we are still very close now .



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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. Yeah, we had that when I was a little kid.

There were six of us kids, so needless to say laundry was a huge and onerous chore. Plus, nothing got washed very often. Plus, of course, "drying" clothes in December, January, February, and several other months in northern NYS (Utica and north of there) was simply freezing the clothes. They needed ironing just to thaw out.

I'll stick with the automatic washer and drier I have now, thank you very much.

[irisblue]

18. Did your Mom have basement clothes lines . My mom did.

For rhe record my mom could done better then my sperm donor

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

38. Yeah there was a basement clothesline.

Then the basement flooded and stayed flooded.

[irisblue]

40. Ugh ugh

[Peregrine Took]

12. Remember the smell of the clothes just from in from being dried on the clothes line?

I wonder if they've ever made a candle with that scent?

[irisblue]

13. I am in tbe US. A friend told me the Irish do different. I bow to their different

RULES OF THE IRISH CLOTHESLINE
April 16, 2015 by Irish American
https://www.irishamericanmom.com/rules-of-the-irish-clothesline/

Everyone I'm outta Detroit. My grandmother love of all eternal is Irish, her man was a rum runner



I am not disputing Irish laundry day. I am not that much

[3catwoman3]

20. That was very entertaining.

Thanx for the link.

[applegrove]

21. My mom had a clothes line too. I miss the smell of sheets that

have dried outside.

[bedazzled]

22. My condo in FL has lines and i LOVE THEM

My grouchy husband hates scratchy towels so I throw socks and underwear in dryer

Otherwise I love to hang clothes on line. They last so much longer.

[malthaussen]

23. So did mine. We didn't get an automatic washing machine until 1966...

... when we moved into an apartment complex that had them.

I got my fingers caught in the wringer once and screamed my little head off. I was always doing stuff like that: when we got a car with automatic windows, I got my fingers caught in them, too.

-- Mal

[LuckyCharms]

24. We have a clothes line that runs probably 40 feet.

It is attached to the house on our back deck, and runs to a pole.

The thing is literally life changing. So handy to have.

[Vinca]

25. You're welcome to mine. I hang a quilt out if I happen to wash one, but I try to avoid drying

things outside because I'm afraid I'll drag in ticks with the laundry.

[wryter2000]

26. You can still buy them

I had one for a while. I loved it.

I also had a wooden screen door in the back that slammed shut with a very nostalgic bang. My stepson offered to change it, and I told him to keep his hands off my screen door. That was always the sound of summer.

[SWBTATTReg]

27. Nice to go down memory lane. I remember my grandma's/great grandma's old washing machine, with the tumblers on

top, that you squeezed the wet laundry through to dry out more, prior to hanging up to dry. The sounds that the washer made still sticks in my mind, chuga chuga chuga...all the way to when it was done. So simple, but neat and effective.

[patphil]

28. The bane of the clothesline: birds.

Also rain, high wind, and winter weather.
My mother was never so happy as when she got a clothes dryer and didn't have to use a clothesline again.

[irisblue]

32. My job was to wipe off the cotton rope and bring out the cloth bag of clothes pins.

We started bringing in the bag of clothes pins because they became a spider hotel one night.

I developed a severe case of arachnophobia that day

[patphil]

33. I forgot that one little treat.

[Marthe48]

29. I have a wind up clothes line

I attached the housing to the shed and can pull the line out and hook the free end to something sturdy. Here is a link. I got one for my daughter for their camp.

https://www.amazon.com/Retractable-Clothesline-Portable-Retracting-Installation/dp/B07FYR4Q55/ref=asc_df_B07FYR4Q55/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=295653753811&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12018153119253260462&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9112979&hvtargid=pla-575525535595&psc=1&mcid=58c15a3b39fe392d94ae8f4fd6dbcc74&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIiJOxstfqhQMV6U1HAR29dAX6EAQYASABEgKAuPD_BwE

[Kali]

31. I have a 4 line version on the back porch for rainy days or delicate fabrics that can't handle

Arizona summer sun.

[Marthe48]

36. I saw those

when I checked for a link for the type I have. I hang all of my wet clothes on hangers. In the winter, I dry them on door hangers or a rack I have. Adds humidity. In the summer, I hang them on hangers and hang them on the line, keeps the house cool. For my bed quilts, I hang them over the chain link fence.

[Kali]

30. to me driers are worse than small plastic water bottles

if I was stuck living somewhere clotheslines were not allowed, there would be rebellion.

[Chainfire]

34. I remember my mother doing the laundry for a family of six in the bath tub.

She would then have to iron almost everything. I remember the smell of the iron and the drone of the soap operas she would watch as she ironed.

I was always facinated by the clothslines I saw on TV, that went from building to building across the street.

[Chautauquas]

35. When the weather is right

like it is today, I hang clothes on a clothes-line in our back yard.

[Wicked Blue]

37. I had one for years, called it my solar dryer

Now I live in an HOA community and don't know if I can get away with a small clothesline.

[dembotoz]

39. those damn ringer machines never seem safe