Sunday, April 9, 2017

On Drying Laundry, Then & Now


Nowadays I’ve turned into a big fan of air drying, yet I use indoor wooden racks. As a child, our family’s yard was setup in such a way that posts were planted in the ground as well as sturdy hooks affixed below the house’s overhang. From these places we’d string clothesline (like this clothesline) in so that there’d be enough space for the breeze to blow through & enough line hung that there’d be enough space to hang up the amount of clothes which’d been washed that day. If there’d be inclement weather (all through the winter & rainy days the rest of the year), we’d stay inside & use the dryer.

I’ve taken to using foldable wooden racks indoors (these are the wooden racks I use) as when my first opportunities came to hang laundry outside to dry, getting posts set & hooks affixed didn’t come so easily. And I’d found a little cove-like spot almost the same size as a drying rack, in an out-of-way place inside, as if it were meant to be that I’d dry my clothes on an inside drying rack rather than on an outside clothesline.

When I remove my cleaned laundry from the machine, getting it back into the pop-up hampers works well just to then get the laundry to the drying racks & hung up. I keep the drying racks nearby my clothes drawers & closet, so once they’ve dried, they simply get put away.

I then fold up these pop-up hampers & slip them into the corner as well as collapse my wooden drying racks & put them away until next time too.

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