Riddle me
this. What do you get when you tie a rope between two trees? An Italian clothesline!
From the day
I owned my first washing machine, I had to have an outdoor clothes line. The
DIY stores refer to it as a “solar dryer”. And they’re green. No, literally.
They are green.
Back home,
it was two pulleys and a pole. In the summer months after the clothes dried,
we’d hoist the garden hose over the clothesline; turn on the hose for some much
needed wet relief from the hot, city summer sun.
I’ve had
several varieties.
There was
the “umbrella in the ground” type of clothesline.
An all time
favorite, “rope between two trees” clothesline.
There were
wood racks when I lived in the Pacific Northwest. If you’ve never been, it
rains there on occasion. Okay, somewhat understated. I needed a mobile
clothesline to grab up the clothes rather quickly and move them indoors at the
spur of the moment. Over the years, the wood racks have been replaced with
plastic coated racks so the wet clothes don’t absorb the wood stain.
My current
is the “tri-pod on the deck against subdivision rules” clothesline.
But over the
past few years, I’ve discovered an indoor method of clothes drying without the
full-on dryer effect. The door moldings in the bedroom. They’ve always been
there, yet I’d never noticed them with an eye for drying clothes. They are in
every bedroom, more than I care to count…or dust. I’ve now skillfully figured
out how to hang the queen size sheets from a pair of pants hangers on the door
moldings and dry my sheets indoors.
Necessity is
the mother of invention. Mother’s Little Helpers used the dryer. DS2 thought of
it as his iron too. I didn’t realize that I had a dual purpose clothes dryer. He
now has his own electric bills to pay. An ironing board is permanently propped
open in his bedroom.
SOUND THE BUGLE: Today’s tip: Remove your clothes
from the washing machine and spin them in the dryer for 5 minutes. Hang to dry
on your favorite type of clothesline. You will spend less money on your power
bills; save energy and your clothes will last longer. My favorite part? No
ironing required. J
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