Comments on: Laundry Secrets from our Grandmothers: Best Ways to Line-dry

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:28:44 +0000

Hi Lyanda,

New to your blog, but heard you on KUOW some time ago. Our family took a 10 day trip to Yellowstone with only 5 days of clothes and washed everything in the sink in the trailer and line-dried in just 2 hours at a campground. Tips include getting the kids to really wring the heck out of everything. We also took advantage of the wind which dried things faster than direct sunlight. Regards, -G

By: Sildah

Sildah — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:40:12 +0000

I clip a couple of extra pins to each corner to add weight. Maybe having a little collection of muslin bags with a rock in each one would work even better?

By: Bonita O'Dacre

Bonita O'Dacre — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:06:32 +0000

Anti-wrap-around clothesline devise.
I need “clothes weights” or something to weight down the sheets and towels preventing “line-wrap-around” on windy days. The spouse has set his “Fred Flintstone” brain to work on this, as yet unsuccessfully.
Where’s that physics teacher?

By: Sustainable Eats

Sustainable Eats — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:10:07 +0000

I just love the way it sounds when you snap. :p

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By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:16:05 +0000

Project Laundry List is a nonprofit that fights anti-clothesline ordinances by helping to pass city or state legislation that invalidates such ordinances: laundrylist.org

You can also see which cities and states have the “right to dry” and urge the First Family to line dry occasionally by visiting right2dry.org

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:13:42 +0000

I am a physics teacher, and I think the snapping technique simply keeps the cotton fibers, along with a little residual detergent in the water, from binding to each other. Normally, the agitation of the dryer would do this.

By: lyanda

lyanda — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:15:22 +0000

Lovely, and great loop idea. Thanks Mary Jo.

By: Mary Jo

Mary Jo — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:26:06 +0000

Few things make me happier than seeing laundry on a line. We use a big loop of line (100 feet of line gives 50 feet of hanging space) between two weatherproof pulleys. That way I can stand at one end and pull the laundry to me. (Think depression-era tenement house technology.) In bad weather, we dry laundry inside over our loft railings. Soon our dryer will go the way of our dishwasher — pretty much unused.