Do you use the drier or do you hang them outside?
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GiraffeyedDonor-ish
ANSWERS: 100
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Dryer Towels get hung.
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I used to hang everything outside. I love the smell of "sunshine" on my clothes. Now I use the drier....it's easier, but I can't say I like it that much more.
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drier...I live in a 16th floor condo..outside isn't an option.
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outside on the 'hills hoist'...dry in no time
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Both. Depends on the weather and how I feel that day.
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both, i put the large items like sheets, towels and hubbys clothes outside and all the kids small clothes like pj's and underwear and socks in the drier. Unless its raining then everything goes into the dryer.
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Dryer always, I haven't seen a clothesline since I drove through west Virginia
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I feel really redneck right now, but in the summer I toss them on my car out in the sun. They dry within a half hour or so. When I can't do that I use a dryer.
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dryer. but the clothesline would probably work better than the stupid dryer.
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Dryer...the clothes on the line always come off to stiff for me, yeck. Especially towels, nothing like drying off with sandpaper.
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My dryer is broken.... and it is cold outside.... I have clothescicles!
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Always use my solar powered cloths drying machine, even in winter it works well. On the days that solar power is not available in winter and it is wet and cold I use a wood fired multi tasking indoor heater and a clothes horse (not the fasionista kind nor a mammel). On the odd occasion I do use an electric clothes dryer with an enormous carbon foot-print - but then I figure I have to give the greenies something to complain about...
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Clothes dryer. I don't have a yard where I could put up a clothesline. And the weather is not always good enough to hang them outside.
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Summer I like to dry my bedding on the clothes line. For the most part I use a dryer, but even during the fall/winter months weather permitting I will use my clothesline.
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I love hanging my clothes outside in the fresh air. I feel they get softer and less wrinkly from hanging out and waving in the breeze. And they just smell so nice. I sometimes lay whites on the grass and that helps to whiten them. I've even thought about putting a line under our porch to at least get the air if not the sun in bad weather. I always put towels in the dryer. They just become so much more absorbent when they are fluff dried. I do use the dryer in bad weather or when I'm feeling lazy.
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Hang them, it saves energy($)
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Use the dryer, too many trees and birds around to hang outside.
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I use the dryer :)
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I use the dryer for towels and sheets and some of my clothes. Anything that would shrink in the dryer, I actually hang up in the basement. I haven't hung up anything outside in ages. We have some neighbors that would probably swipe some of our laundry if we did!
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I prefer the drier.
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I usually do. I don't think it's spoiling the image... +5
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That's basicially my only option...
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Yep. I used to help my mom as a kid and that was the only "dryer" she had. In winter, we had a stove in the wash room and that is where they were hung.
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It's what most of us kiwis do all the time. We do have a drier but only use it for .... stuff we dont want on public display on the line! LoL
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The Aussie Hills Hoist, we all have one out the back!
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In the summer i always peg my clothes out they dry in no time.
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In my country it is quite normal for us to hang our washed clothes on our outside clothesline except on rainy days. I am no exception!
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Yes,by choice in summer.Winter leaves few choices in cold weather. Seems like that activity is becoming popular again after several years (decades )of suburban bylaws against such activity. The green revolution has brought back the politically correct clothes line.
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Every chance I get.
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Used to. Not any more though.
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it is the only way to dry them here. Or we could hang them on a clothesline in the Furnace room.
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Plenty of times before the dryer was invented. Oh, my I am that old. Oh well I will say I am that young.
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yes loads times
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Yes .... a lot of times :)
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Yes, and I still do when the weather is warm.
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As often as possible. It is the greenest way to dry clothes, and FREE.
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Yes, all the time - unless it's raining.
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I tend to use indoor drying racks where I'm at now (the wind is horrible in MN and will blow most anything away!). When I lived in Ohio I would use clotheslines all summer long.
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The entire time I grew up. Every day me or one of my sisters hung clothes out to dry because when you have 10 people in the family you wash and dry clothing endlessly. In the winter we hung them in the basement hoping they would dry and sometimes my parents would have to go to the local launda-mat to dry them. I still remember a few times in the cold months going out to take the clothes in from the clothesline and they were frozen stiff! We all had a good laugh when we would bring them in the house and the jeans would stand up by themselves! My mom didn't find it quite as funny as the rest of us did. I never owned a dryer until 1986! I still hang clothes sometimes in the summer months!
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Every chance I get. I love it, saves me money on my electric bill!
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Of course, my mother would never have the dryer on if it wasn't raining!! I however don't own a washing line, live in a highly populated area of sky dwellers so it would be even more uneconomical for me to keep washing my laundry to get the bird droppings off it!
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Yes. I like doing that but rarely have.
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Ya,of course!!ESPECIALLY in NYC,ugh!!!
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yup, i used more often that now :)
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Yeah when I was younger my Grandma used to dry all of our clothes like that. I don't have a clothesline at my house but in the summer I take my duvet and blankets over there and she washes and hangs them to dry. They smell so nice and fresh after.
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Yeah, I got a clothesline in the backyard. Sometimes I use it, but usually I'm too lazy, and just use the dryer. Nice smell comes from the clothes through clotheslining though. >_>
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No, although I've hung stuff on inside clotheslines plenty of times.
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We had one when I was a kid, but I dont remember my Mom using it. My neighbor's Mom kept using her 20 years after she got a dryer because she liked the smell of freash air on the laundry.
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yes I love the smell and feel of clothes dried outside, but it is a compromise of time
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That's all we did as kids. I even did it for a while once I moved out and had my own family. I love to see the sheets on the line waving in the wind.
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Yes, years ago when I lived in a ground floor flat, some-one stole my knickers....Errrr, what a perve!!
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Yes, years ago when I lived in a ground floor flat & some-one stole my knickers. how sad!!!
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Many times - I still perfer it to machine drying - it saves you money and the clothes seem to last longer and smell fresher.
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Yes
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not on a clothes line, but over chairs and benches
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Yes! Sheets in the summer time are the best! Just shake all the bugs out first :o)
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Cannot say I have...
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I bought a new house last year (actually it's an OLD house :-) And it took me a few months to save up to buy a washing machine, so I had to wash my clothes in the kitchen sink and dry them on a line.
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Sure, I didn't always have a dryer. As a matter of fact, I have some underwear and socks, hanging on a line downstairs right now.
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Yes. I have a clothes line and I have to walk uphill from the well house where my washer and dryer are, to use it, so I get some exercise at the same time.
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Yes in summer
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Yes. I still would were it an option but my apartment isn't a good place
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I always hang my clothes on an outside clothes line. the good old Hilshoist! (do not even know if that is how you spell it and it is a great aussie invention ;p) I will occasionally hang them on a clothes rack inside if it is raining, but it rains very rarely here.
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Personally, no, but my grandmother used to, and we had neighbors who did quite regularly. My grandmother had those straight lines between two "T" poles. My neighbors had a "spinner" that kinda reminded me of an outdoor umbrella, without the cover. ;-)
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way back in the day
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Sure have.
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Everybody does here (Malta) if they have a roof. That's one advantage of having flat roofs. The only time I don't is if it's raining.
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Normally do;0) Sun freshness and it kills the bacteria too ;0)
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When I was growing up in my old house, yes, we used to hang washed clothes outside on a clothesline that you could pull along wheels at each end of the line. We used wooden clothes pins to hand each garment up. They dried very quickly, and the clothes and towels had a fresh scent, hard to describe. But the dried clothes and towels always ended up more "stiff" than those dried from a dryer. The only thing I didn't like about hanging clothes outside were the small bugs that would once in awhile get plastered on the laundry, or tufts of seed from trees and other plants.
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That's the way I have to do it. I like it.
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I hang all my clothes on an outside clothes line. I only hang them inside on a clothes horse if it's raining outside.
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Always as living in a house in Australia ,, we have outside lines , clothes dry very quickly in the summer , but winter many people have clothes lines under a patio or pergola so wind can dry them but no rain gets on the clothes .
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yep.....even hung sheets out on Glasgow Green once..... http://www.glesga.ukpals.com/green/greenwashing.htm
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I have always hung my washing out to dry, weather permitting! Now I am no longer able to work I tend to do my washing when the weather is good so it is easier to dry almost all my washing outside these days. I find, in particular, the sheets smell so much fresher that I believe I sleep better. In fact, when the weather is really good I try to wash, dry and put the same bedding back on the bed to get the full benefit of the "fresh" smell.
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Yes.. in the summer
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As a matter of fact I'm wearing my same grubbies because it's been raining all week long and its the only way i can dry clothes.. I have a LOT of laundry piling up now :/
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For most of our clothes I prefer line drying, except for towels and in the winter, of course. I don't want a repeat of frozen stiff jeans lol!!!!
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I have, my babysitter was a hardcore environmentalist when I was growing up, and it was one of our chores.
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NEVER!
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I always do. Except during the winter unless it is a windy, mild day. Great for the environment and saves on the power bill.
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yes
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Yes, particularly bed sheets. They smell better.
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Yes. This is called "saving electricity".
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Ofcourse I have..I prefer to over the dryer.. they smell so lovely when you hang them out
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As soon as it is nice enough we hang all the bedding on the line. My mom has tons of quilts, some my great gramma made all by hand. One is my mom & dads wedding quilt. I made mine, by hand every stitch. I'm done. haha
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No, and who does that anymore lol.
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yeah but that was back when i was a kiddie
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yes i have
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yes sleeping bags to air
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Yes, many, many times.
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Yes, in the summer. Nothing freshens clothes better than fresh air and sunshine. Plus its free.
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Negative.
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yes! what do you do with them?
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No....I never air my dirty laundry in public...
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Not unless it's something that can't be put in the dryer.
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I like to but around here they will only get dirty from all the dirt in the air.
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I've been hanging them inside all winter. I hate what the dryer does to my clothes! It's getting nice now, I think I'll get a clothesline up soon, thanks for reminding me.
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Yes,but since moving to the windy northern Illinois area,,they would blow away most days 'round here,,that concept hasn't been used for 15+years now.
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yes, many times!
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Only beach towels and then they dry a little on the stiff side. Nothing beats fluffy!
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