Line Drying
Originally uploaded by Madeline & Ryosuke
A Belle's post on Earth Day encouraged us to share our eco-friendly practices and since Ry took a pic of our laundry yesterday I thought that I would share how we love drying our clothes outside on the line. We started doing it in Ohio because my aunt showed me how it makes your sheets feel freshly ironed and your clothes smell great (we use unscented laundry soaps). Now we exclusively dry outside. If it's raining, we don't do laundry. There's also something old fashioned and romantic about it that puts me into my grandmother's shoes when she was our age.
2 comments:
that is so nice & it makes so much sense. are the clothes soft when dry? for some reason i imagine they might get "crispy"? unfortunately, it is too foggy to consistently dry our clothes here in our current place and there's no where to hang them in our new place! excuses, excuses...
They're not super soft off the line but soften right up when you put them on. The only item I didn't like which was definitely "crispy" was towels, but I just got myself over it.
My in-laws don't even have a dryer and dry all of their clothes on the veranda of their 14th floor flat. I was astounded that clothes would dry outside in the winter...they will. Come to think of it, a lot of the rest of the world doesn't use dryers. What have y'all seen on your travels?
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