Clothesline memories!
#111
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: SE Michigan
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This really brings back memories. I helped my mother in the summer hanging clothes out. One time we forgot to take the clothes in before dark. An elderly lady down the street, came in through the alley, and stole my sisters underwear and all the clothes pins. Left the other clothes on the ground. My mother caught her. Mom never left clothes out after dark again. She had to watch the clothes like a hawk. From then on mom said no underwear on the clothesline. We hung them in the basement.
#114
Oh, yes I remember helping Mom wash the laundry then run it through the wringer, into the rinse tub, hand rinse and put through the wringer into the laundry basket. Then we'd lug it up from the basement and out to the clothline. Oh, yes there was always the proper hanging sequence with the two garments with only three pins, seam to seam. The sun always helped the whites stay whiter and they had to be back in by 4 O'Clock before the dew started to fall and dampen them. Now I know why my back is shot and I need a cane at times life on on a farm was a good life but very hard physical work even for the girls.
#115
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 673
i remember wondering, when i was a kid, and helping hang stuff out--why did we so diligently dry all those sheets and shirts, pants and nighties only to have to bring them inside and them SPRINKLE them to wet 'em down again, so we could iron all fo them???
i still hang the wash out most of the warm months--too old and arthritic to do it in the winter--but i'm sure not hidebound by the rules, any more. i wash when i can (work too much), and if something is a little damp when it comes off the line, oh, well--it might need pressing anyways!
i still hang the wash out most of the warm months--too old and arthritic to do it in the winter--but i'm sure not hidebound by the rules, any more. i wash when i can (work too much), and if something is a little damp when it comes off the line, oh, well--it might need pressing anyways!
#118
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 673
Originally Posted by Novice.for.now
LOL, brings back a lot of memories. I don't have a clothes line now, but there are times I would love one. I had to chuckle over the part about hanging the unmentionables in them middle. I do remember doing exactly that!
#119
Originally Posted by purplemem
I love hanging clothes on the line. And yes, those were the rules I had to follow.
In my current home, I don't have a clothesline and I really want one.
Do you remember the metal frames we put inside jeans to dry and make a crease in them?
In my current home, I don't have a clothesline and I really want one.
Do you remember the metal frames we put inside jeans to dry and make a crease in them?
#120
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Fargo, North Dakota
Posts: 286
I'm still waiting for our backyard to dry up so I can start hanging my clothes out too. I grew up on a farm & we always hung the clothes out except in winter when we would put them on wooden clothes racks & put them over the furnace register. There is nothing better than climbing in to bed at night with bedding that smells like the spring weather outside.
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