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This Clothesline actually puts the clothespins on your clothes for you! Click the picture for more info.
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1. clotheslines can save you money?
2. electric dryers use 5 - 10 percent of residential energy?
3. clothes and sheets smell better when hung outside?
4. solar dryers save energy, thus preventing pollution?
5. fabrics last longer when air dried?
6. spending a few minutes out in the sun is good for your skin?
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This Clothesline actually puts the clothespins on your clothes for you! Click the picture for more info.
This mobile clothesline can be used indoors or out. Introducing the Mrs. Pegg's Handy Line. This rugged, yet lightweight unit is perfect for small areas. Click here for more details.
1. clotheslines can save you money?
2. electric dryers use 5 - 10 percent of residential energy?
3. clothes and sheets smell better when hung outside?
4. solar dryers save energy, thus preventing pollution?
5. fabrics last longer when air dried?
6. spending a few minutes out in the sun is good for your skin?
”The Clothes Line”
Do you remember?
The clothes line........a dead give away..Do the kids today even know what a clothes line is? For all of us who are older, this will bring back precious memories..
THE BASIC RULES
1.. You had to wash the clothes line before hanging any clothes….Walk the length of each line with a damp cloth around the line..(I think we only did this if the clothes line was plastic) (nope, ours was wire, and we cleaned it) Yes, so was ours also, even when I got married we had wire it was stronger & I don't think we had plastic back then in the 50's !
2.. You had to hang the clothes in a certain order and always hang whites with whites and hang them first..
3.. You never hung a shirt by the shoulders, always by the tail.. What would the neighbors think?
4.. Wash day was on a Monday.......never hang clothes on the weekend or Sunday for heaven's sake! Yeah even the stores were closed on Sunday that was the Lord’s day !
5.. Hang the sheets and towels on the outside lines so you could hide your 'unmentionables' in the middle.. I usually hung mine in the house on a line !
6.. It didn't matter if it was sub zero weather........clothes would 'freeze dry’..
7.. Always gather the clothes pins when taking down dry clothes.. Pins left on the line was 'tacky'.. You'd put the pins in a clothes pin bag ! We made our own bags & put them on a wire hanger !
8.. If you were efficient, you would line the clothes up so that each item did not need two clothes pins, but shared one of the clothes pins with the next washed item..
9.. Clothes off of the line before dinner time, neatly folded in the clothes basket and ready to be ironed..
10.. IRONED?????????? Well, that's a whole other subject..
Also if the shirts had been starched you sprinkled them with water that was a pop bottle with holes & rolled them up & put them in the basket to be ironed !
A POEM
A clothes line was a news forecast
To neighbors passing by..
There were no secrets you could keep
When clothes were hung to dry..
It also was a friendly link
For neighbors always knew
If company had stopped on by
To spend a night or two..
For then you'd see the 'fancy sheets'
And towels upon the line;
You'd see the 'company table cloths'
With intricate design..
The line announced a baby's birth
To folks who lived inside
As brand new infant clothes were hung
So carefully with pride..
The ages of the children could
So readily be known
By watching how the sizes changed
You'd know how much they'd grown..
It also told when illness struck,
As extra sheets were hung;
Then nightclothes, and a bathrobe, too,
Haphazardly were strung..
It said, 'Gone on vacation now'
When lines hung limp and bare..
It told, 'We're back!' when full lines sagged
With not an inch to spare..
New folks in town were scorned upon
If wash was dingy gray,
As neighbors carefully raised their brows,
And looked the other way....
But clotheslines now are of the past
For dryers make work less..
Now what goes on inside a home
Is anybody's guess..
I really miss that way of life..
It was a friendly sign
When neighbors knew each other best
By what hung on the line!
FROM DEBBIE
LadyInRed:
The little finger on my right hand has been crooked since I was 8 years old and got my hand caught in Grandma’s first electric wringer washer….. I still remember the sound of that machine!…
After they were washed, we would put the clothes through the wringer and they came out and dropped into one side of the double tub used for rinsing the soap out. There we rinsed them by hand and wrung them out and then rinsed them in the other side which was the second rinse. Then we ran them through the wringer one more time and then hung them on the line...
We carried them to the line in a wash tub…I still have my Grandma’s wash tubs displayed in my garage, they are more than 50 years old!
We used to put a little liquid “blueing” in the water that we used to rinse the “whites” so they would be a brighter white…it came in a little glass bottle and if you spilled it on yourself you were stained blue for days!
And we had these wire “stretchers” shaped like a pants leg, that were put in the legs of Grandpa’s khakis so they would dry with a crease in them… I still have a pair of those wire things in my garage, too!
I remember starching pillowcases with starch that Grandma cooked on the old stove she had in the washhouse… (this was the same stove that we used to put up all the vegetables from the garden)..that cooked starch was some heavy duty starch and it was hot!!!
Those pillowcases would be stiff as a board when dry…
Then we sprinkled them and rolled them up real tight and let them set for about an hour before ironing them…..My Grandma insisted we iron EVERYTHING! The ironing board was built into the kitchen wall and folded down from a little cabinet…
I remember those newly starched and ironed pillow cases were so stiff they scratched my face at night so I would take that pillow and scrunch it up to soften the hard starch….. Grandma would get so mad at me!
Those were the days!!!
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