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12:19 am
July 14, 2011
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I am looking for an umbrella style clothesline that is acceptable in communities where clotheslines are banned. I saw an ad for one made of wood that folded up and rolled out on a deck or patio but now I can't find it anywhere. I have looked online to no avail. Does anyone know where I can find such a thing. I would really appreciate. Right now I am hanging out clothes on two folding racks!! I don't have a place for a retractable line.
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Laurie Jo
2:01 am
February 8, 2009
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I have one here stored in a shed, you can have it…;-)
I unfortunately can not hang my laundry outside, we live on a grit road, have to cold and to long winters and the few days it would be possible…I just dont think about it.
But I bought my clothesline at Candian tire, now I doubt that that store is near you, but any decent store who sells hampers, clothes pins, should carry the umbrella style clothesline.
Good luck.
6:55 am
June 1, 2011
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Back in 2009 after I had back surgery, I started researching alternatives to my clothesline which was located down the hill. I needed someway to be able to hang out clothes without having to climb up & down our property. I still had these items bookmarked & I'll show what I ended up using!
Large portable rectangular line for decks
I think this is what you're looking for though: Portable Umbrella Clothesline
And this is what I ended up using. I already had it in the basement, and since winter was starting & we'd just fired up our woodstove, I figured this would be the easiest on my back! Walmart still sells the rack, it's a double pole set up that can be lowered and raised. I just pinned things to clothes hangers and hung hangers on the rack. The clothes dried so fast being near the woodstove, and it was soo easy on my back!
7:51 am
February 10, 2009
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Here's another one, http://www.lehmans.com/store/H…..45?Args= hope this link works. It doesn't have wheels or a base to put it on a patio though, it comes with a PVC ground socket that gets put in the ground then the base lifts out of that.
8:20 am
August 24, 2010
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LaurieJo said:
I am looking for an umbrella style clothesline that is acceptable in communities where clotheslines are banned. I saw an ad for one made of wood that folded up and rolled out on a deck or patio but now I can't find it anywhere. I have looked online to no avail. Does anyone know where I can find such a thing. I would really appreciate. Right now I am hanging out clothes on two folding racks!! I don't have a place for a retractable line.
Thanks,
Laurie Jo
It is illegal for communities to "ban" outdoor clothes hanging!
(Most people don't know that!) It is considered passive solar energy, and the most efficient way to dry clothes….and protected by Federal Energy laws. :)
8:51 am
June 1, 2011
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hershiesgirl, this is great news. Can you post references to the Fed Energy law where this is prohibited?
9:08 am
March 21, 2010
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Stop the insanity!!!!!!! Banning clotheslines and vegetable gardens? Our government at work and out of control. I don't understand how anybody can think this is ok.
10:28 am
December 28, 2008
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We have one very like the one BG posted at the Lehman's site, but we have had it so long that the Lehman's price tag was shocking!
I'm VERY happy with it, and we have had it around 15 years. It's aluminum with some sort of plasticized line. I usually just hang thing on hangers on that line.
When we got it, I really thought the aluminum structure looked very spindly and did not expect to like it at all, or that it would last very long. But, it spends most of it's time outside and has weathered quite well.
Maybe this is one great use for aluminum! (I mostly avoid using aluminum for anything!!)
8:10 am
August 24, 2010
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Liz Pike said:
hershiesgirl, this is great news. Can you post references to the Fed Energy law where this is prohibited?
Ok I only got this halfway right. It's a STATE thing, I thought it was Federal. I live in FL where its illegal to prohibit it…. I thought it was everywhere. Here is a pretty good article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10…..038;st=cse and if you look it up on Wikipedia (look up clothesline) it will lead you to more references. I think VA is one of the states that also has a law protecting it. :)
8:29 am
March 7, 2011
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Illegal to hang clothes out?! This is insane! I never knew there was such an ordanance! I get so tired of people more worried about the way things "look" and not worried with how things really "are". I think there is nothing more beautiful than a clothes line full of freshly washed clothes gently swaying in the breeze. The simple life is best.
9:21 am
February 10, 2009
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Yes, there are communities where this is either written in the city ordinances or in the case of some of the draconian homeowners association rules out there.
It seems that some communities think that it's 'trashy' to hang laundry outside. (and no, I'm not going to dust off my dryer!!)
When I was growing up, my mother and grandmothers were always careful about how they hung the laundry. Nice things were on the outside lines, (the poles were "T" shaped with room for at least 3 lines) and rags, worn towels, or anything stained or of a personal nature were hung on the middle line.
The aesthetics of how pretty the laundry looked out on the line was a very important thing, and yes, Monday really was wash day, and people DID notice if things were not 'nice'. I'm not sure how I feel about it, the neighbors on both sides of our house were easy going and mostly shared the satisfaction once the laundry was all hung out. If rain threatened, we all ran out to help each other!
The lady behind our house was one who would never DREAM of hanging laundry out and was terribly proud that she ONLY used her automatic dryer! My mom and Miss Irene just shook their heads at her wasteful ways!
I only have a single line, good thing I don't have any neighbors who can see my line!
10:10 am
February 22, 2010
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BuckeyeGirl…there were things my mother would put inside a pillow case to hang on the line!
When my son lived in Ashland Ohio I loved driving thru "Amish country" and seeing all of the laundry on the lines.
The only things my hubby likes line dried are the sheets. he gripes that underware and towels are too stiff and rough…poor baby…he can camp out and hunt deer for hours but doesn't like rough underware! Onery son told him to do like he does and not wear underware! That was a funny moment to see hubbys face at that remark!
At the moment I don't have an outdoor line, we had to move it to make some waterline repairs and for some reason hubby didn't put it back up.
10:11 am
June 1, 2011
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BuckeyeGirl, my family was the exact same way!! I can remember driving down the road passing houses with laundry on the line and if they didn't follow the unspoken "protocol", my mom and grandma would "tsk tsk". Even as a kid, I thought it was so funny. And even more so since our own houses were secluded. The clothes got hung out like that anyway just in case someone drove up in the driveway and might see them. Oh the horrors…
One neighborhood near my hometown required residents to build fencing that hid their clotheslines if they were going to use them! Silly.
Chicken Crossing I agree! I love to see laundry hanging out. When I see that laundry it brings up such a sense that all's right with the world. I used to even fix up my clothesline area. I too had the T posts and hung hanging baskets from each one. Made a new clothespin bag each year, and even constructed a little rolling table that I could use to fold laundry straight off the line if the weather permitted. Not only did it give me a few more minutes outside, but it helped insure I didn't bring carpenter bees in who loved to get up inside my dh's shirt sleeves and jean legs, or wrapped up in bath towels!
1:33 pm
March 21, 2010
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I love my clothesline too! I enjoy the time hanging my laundry out and seeing how it looks in the sun and breeze. My hubby sometime gripes about stiffness too, but he loves that I'm saving us money and that the dryer is not heating up the house. Besides, part of the stiffness problem is because he will only wear the Wrangler cowboy cut jeans that are like cardboard anyway. My Mom used to love to do paintings of the simple things in our lives. Years ago she did a painting of jeans hanging on the clothesline with the lifting pole fallen away. The jeans were all sagging down and kneeling on the ground. She called it "An Evening Prayer" I have always loved that picture.
2:23 pm
February 10, 2009
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MMT, that picture sounds amazing! I'll think of it from now on whenever I'm hanging laundry, thank you for sharing!
9:30 am
July 14, 2011
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I may be "silly" but I like things to look nice. I do enjoy the look of laundry on the line and being outside to hang laundry. I use my little drying rack nearly every day but don't have a
level, easy to access with a basket of wet laundry, not in the front yard place to put clothesline. That's why I want a moveable umbrella style clothesline. The one I saw advertised was made of wood, almost like decking. It was attractive and the lines could be folded down and the whole unit moved. It was advertised in a weekly magazine insert for out local paper, something like Parade. While I may give in and put up a metal unit I really was looking for a this more attractive wooden version that I could use on my patio. I appreciate all the info offered by folks on the forum.
My DH and DS 4 and 5 (still at home) like the towels, t shirts and jeans to be fluffed in the dryer and I accomodate because this doesn't use heat and takes only minutes.
If I really wanted to live simple and green I would do like my mother did when I was a teen in the late 70's and early 80's. She saved water and energy by washing with a ringer washer, using the same water over to wash and rinse, but I just don't have the space or the time for that, nor do most of us!
7:43 am
February 3, 2010
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I hang out everything but the towels. My only problem is some genius that owned the house before us put up T-bar clotheslines right under the trees, or planted trees right beside the clotheslines, I don't know which. So at night when the birdies roost…If I don't get my clothes in, it can be an unhappy time. I'd move the line, but the one sturdy thing on the whole place is the cement job they did when they put up the poles. And I really don't have room for another line anywhere else in my postage stamp yard.
And, yes, hanging clothes was an art form. My mother made me hang, not only according to items (hidden unmentionables), but according to size. Daddy's shirts first because they were biggest. Or Mother's and Grandmother's dresses because they were longest. Golly, maybe I should have used clothespins and a yard stick.
1:00 pm
December 14, 2010
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Turn the trees into fire wood.
2:15 pm
May 3, 2011
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I have been trying to be frugal this summer to save on power expenses. I bought a folding wood rack from Amazon. It doesn't hold a great deal and would not work for a family probably but for me its fine. Other things I hang up on clothes hangers and put everything out on my screened porch to dry. I always use laundry protocol and undies and stained kitchen towels always hidden in the back! 
2:48 pm
May 7, 2011
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I screwed eye hooks into 3 or four of the wooden fence posts that surround our yard and put another eye hook on a 4 x 4 that is a support post for the corner of the patio. I then tied rings (about 1 in dia) onto regular clothesline rope and stretch them between to two points. I also have one of those retractable clothes lines that is attached to the house. These ropes can be removed when not in use. These work well except when it is really windy and the clothes go into the neighbor's yard. I also have a chain link (left over from another project) that goes across the patio that I use to hang those clothes that I dry on hangers (shirts & blouses). The only time I use my dryer any more is to dry towels because I don't like the feel they have after they have dried on the line.
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