Barbra Streisand was infamous for her condescending “advice” to use clotheslines, so it’s been out there. Trouble is, if everyone went back to clotheslines, the screams from home owner’s associations across the country would be deafening, it’s too unsightly for them. And, with nobody home during the day in most working age households, who has the time? Are you going to hang it out at night and take it down the next night?
Monday was always laundry day at our house and my mom worked every day. Our Mondays began at 4 a.m. The laundry was all done and hung out by 7 a.m. One of the chores on my list at the end of my school day was to take down and fold laundry and put it all away, except for the bedding which my mom ironed on the mangle on Monday evening after dinner and shirts, pants and dresses which went into the refrigerator after being sprinkled. Tuesday night was set aside for ironing of those items.
It’s a matter of priorities and everyone in the family helping out, including the kids. Of course we didn’t spend hours in front of the TV and kids didn’t play video games either. HOA’s are another matter I’d rather not get on my soap box about. We did put up a short clothes line in our back yard though and have noticed a very few others popping up. None of them extend above the fence line though. So far so good!
Birds love to poop on clothes hanging out on clothes lines.
Don’t ask me how I know. :-)