I LOVE my clothesline and wouldn’t want to be without one again. It’s certainly nothing fancy, but I love the smell of clothes, towels, sheets & blankets dried outdoors. I also like secretly feeling like I’m ‘flipping off’ the electrical company. I used to only line dry in the summer, but when our dryer finally died this past winter, we bought an indoor rack large & strong enough to manage all the laundry. It’s a bit more of a pain than being able to line-dry outdoors, but it still beats the electricity bill from using the dryer!

Even back when I lived in an apartment in the city, I had bought a drying rack that I would set up on my balcony. Some folks strung up small clotheslines across their balcony. Hey, whatever works… The Amish houses we saw in upstate NY recently had clotheslines strung up across their porches. I like that idea too, but since we don’t have a porch we’ll be sticking to the clotheslines we already have.