Do you think that people who use clothes-lines instead of electric dryers are trashy or environmentally conscious?
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It depends on where they choose to place their clothes line, and if they hang out the bras and underwear. We have always had a line, in the back yard. You can not see it from the road. We do not have neighbors close enough to see it from the sides. I have always loved the fresh smell of hanging out my sheets.
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I do not think those people are trashy at all. Is it the invention of the dryer machine a yardstick to measure ethics? And what about before the invention of it then? There are many things that some people do which others always rush to judge. For one thing, that person or those people are saving electrical energy. There are things in life which are wrong and unethical in nature, but there are also many things unrightfully judged as "wrong" or "unethical" simply because someone finds fault with it.
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Energy conserving...economically careful...just don't put thongs and sexy lingerie on the line...that's trashy!
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A line is cheap, mechanically sound and works in a blackout. Dryers use juice, make noise and are prone to breakdown. There is nothing trashy about having a clothes line, even with smalls on them. There is something trashy about a suburb with a whitegoods graveyard on the nature strip.
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I think it's a great idea. Clotheslines make your clothes smell fresh and clean. (Like the artificial dryer sheets try to do).
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In the US in suburbia: they are trashy. Also downright rude, given that the people using them always decide to hang out everything, especially the underwear, when their neighbors are having a lawn party. In a US City: they're trashy AND stupid. In the US in the country: if anyone does drive past they won't notice them for the wrecked pickups, falling down shed, toilet planters, and "lawn art". In Thailand: they're the only option. Electric Driers cost a frickin fortune! Now 6 months out of the year (Nov-Apr) it's fine. Most clothes dry in about 15 minutes (and will bleach/fade in 20). But the other 6 months is the Rainy Season! Even when it's not raining it's cloudy and overcast, and the clothes always smell bad.
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White trailer trash with a clothes line...here I am. What I truely am is, 1)cheap - why pay to put them in the dryer, when the clothes line does it for free? 2)in love with the smell of clothes off the line, 3)totally into the crispness you get from linens on the line 4)not wanting all the heat from the dryer to build up in the laundry room/house.
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I think they like fresh smelling clothes, less wrinkles and an inexpensive smart way to dry their clothes. I'd never think of them as trashy, gee, everyone here, no matter what kind of home they live in, has a clothesline and uses it. The sunshine is a splendid disinfectant.
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I have both. I hang clothes out when the weather is nice. Nobody can see our clothesline, so I don't consider it trashy at all. I pin a few sprigs of fresh lavender up with the bedsheets and they smell and feel heavenly after drying on the line.
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