Yankees and Confederates

[Diane Amberg]

 We never had a dryer while growing up. Al and I got one after we had been married a couple of years. In early fall the darn birds would poop purple on the sheets from the poke berries and in the spring it was from the mulberries. I finally gave up.

[MarineMom]

If it started raining in England on washday the first person to notice it would go out and yell "raining" as she took in her laundry by the time you got done bringing it in you could hear women up and down echoing the call (if your neighbour had gone shopping you brought her wash in as well as your own) I missed that when I came to the states

[Roma Jean Turner]

:)Wonderful memories.  I can still see my grandma out there in her brown plaid housedress.
She had some kind of metal form sthat she put down the legs of grandad's trouser while they dried so they would
dry straighter and be easier to iron.  The old cloths line is still up in my backyard. Although I never use it I still don't want to
get rid of it.  Guess I'll paint it and hang some plants from it.

[Wilma]

I didn't have a dryer until my youngest was out of diapers.  Might be the reason my babies didn't have diaper rash.  I enjoyed hanging clothes on the line and liked bringing them in, but I didn't like folding and putting them away and I still don't like to iron.

[flo]

I didn't have a dryer till my kids were grown and away from home.  Things were so soft after being on the line in the breeze.  Even jeans I hung so the wind would blow through them.  Course out east of town the wind blew 24/7.    When I bought this house there were poles and a plastic cord that hung to the ground.  The cord I took down, but use one of the poles for bird feeders.  Don't want to take down the poles, never know when I might need them.   Remember a while back on some thread I asked the question - Why did we go to all the work hanging the clothes on the line to dry, bring them in, dampen them, roll them up so we could iron them the next day?  Why not just bring them in damp?  And OMG the whites MUST be white to hang out where everyone could see them.  Jo, enjoyed that little poem.  And I supppose the wives of the Yankees and Confederates hung their clothes on the lines also.  Or spread them over the fence.

[Jo McDonald]

I had a wonderful long clothesline at home in Howard and used it most of the times unless the wind was in the north - then Lord help me the dirt off that county road would choke a horse...so there were no clothes on the lines on those days.

I don't have a clothes line here at the Elk City State Park, but Fred did buy me a rack and secured it firmly in the ground behind the 5th wheel, where I hang some of my smaller things.  At our space in Texas I have great clothes lines, and the clothes dry very fast and we usually have nice wind to "blow out the wrinkles" and a lot of the ladies hang their clothes on the lines at that park.  The park is huge -- has 273 parking spaces and there are usually clothes flapping in the breeze every day of the work week.  I love the fresh smell of laundry when it is dried out doors.

[Janet Harrington]

I didn't have a dryer until my youngest was out of diapers.  Might be the reason my babies didn't have diaper rash. 

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Hummmmm.  I wonder why I have it now???

[Wilma]

You don't run around in nothing but panties now.

[kdfrawg]

Do I need to be older to see this thread?

[Janet Harrington]

Why, yes, Kermit, you do, so you just quit reading until I tell you that you are old enough to read this board again.