Comments on: 5 Reasons To Line Dry Your Laundry

By: Why You Should Line Dry Your Laundry

Why You Should Line Dry Your Laundry — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:05:38 +0000

[...] at Simple Mom has some good reasons why you should line dry your laundry instead of using a [...]

By: Tori

Tori — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:42:53 +0000

These are really great reasons. I specifically like reason #5- it’s therapeutic. What a great way to take 5 minutes for yourself- while doing something good for your budget and the environment. Thanks for sharing this!
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By: Christy B.

Christy B. — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:26:59 +0000

I love hanging clothes out to dry at my mother’s place–the smell, the process, and yes, the peace! We never did toss them back in the dryer, as they were folded straight off the line, so we wore a lot of cardboard sweaters.

First time at your blog–lovin’ it!

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:26:54 +0000

We are a family of seven (5 children) living in the S of France. I wouldn’t dream of buying a dryer for all of the reasons you have listed above. It means that the first thing I do every single day of the week is get up, go downstairs, feed the dogs and while they are out, I hang, unhang, load laundry. It is a huge task, but it’s one that I am accustomed to. For those who have always had a dryer, it would be hard to convert. But when you always have and there are a million financial and ecological reasons to continue, it is just natural. And yes, the clothes last WAY longer!

By: Garry

Garry — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:33:21 +0000

Ahh the usual ‘opportunity cost’ argument against something like line drying. You must however consider, would you actually be working during those hours in which you hang up the clothing? (Many jobs have set hours and there is not much of an opportunity to be earning instead of hanging clothes up for a few minutes every few days). If the answer is ‘no’ then the opportunity cost is in fact $0 and yes you have saved that $72. By the way, $72 can be a lot of money to some people, especially families with kids.
By the way, if you adopted the hang the clothing straight onto clothes hangers and then hang those you can actually save time too.

By: karen martindale

karen martindale — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:12:26 +0000

to fluff up line dried towels put them dry into the tumble dryer for one minute only. They come out all fluffed or hang them in the rain.

By: karen martindale

karen martindale — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:12:28 +0000

light colours reflect light, dark colours absorb. (Test this on a sunny day by putting a dark towel and a white towel on the line together.)
Why am I saying this? Well apply this to your laundry choices so that on a sunny day do your white wash first give it longer on the line, do a coloured wash second.
On a sunny but damp day choose a coloured wash. It will often get dry or near, even in light rain.
In good weather hanging the washing out quite wet last thing at night gives it time to drop out any creases, especially if there is a bit of a breaze. No ironing!

By: Syvar

Syvar — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:56:36 +0000

My wife is a huge fan of air drying. If she’s having a bad day, she’ll wash a load of laundry and then hang it out to dry. It invigorates her and completely changes her mood. This is so much so that last year for Christmas her gifts included a 40lb bag of cement, an in ground clothes line and a big black tub. Since we moved to Vegas, she hasn’t had a clothes line. I was able to make her a portable one that sits on our zeroscape patio. Now she’s a happy girl again.
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By: Yasmine

Yasmine — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:43:47 +0000

I absolutely adore the smell of clothes dried on the line in my garden. Even when I’m folding it at the end of the day, I take a few seconds to smell each item (I know, weird!), it’s something unique, you can’t reproduce that smell with chemicals! Here in Quebec, Canada, we can dry our laundry outdoors and every house has a clothes dry line. But we can do it only in summer, our winters are very, very long and very cold with 5 to 6 meters of snow… I must admit that I even have a “mental picture” of clothes drying outside that I use in order to relax in my office when it’s get too stressful. I close my eyes for a few seconds, I see an orchard in bloom with clothes on the line moving slowly in the wind…helps instantly.
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By: ~M

~M — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:24:07 +0000

Tsh, are you still using Soapnuts? How do they work on odor…my husband can stink up a shirt like nobody’s business!