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Peregrine Took

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12. Remember the smell of the clothes just from in from being dried on the clothes line?

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Mon Apr 29, 2024, 07:29 PM

Apr 29

I wonder if they've ever made a candle with that scent?

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My Mom had a wringer washer and a clothes line. Yes I am old & I want a clothes line again [View all] irisblue Apr 29 OP

There are folding dryer racks, usually 7 or so rods on a folding frame bucolic_frolic Apr 29 #1

I got that irisblue Apr 29 #2

I'm glad I don't have to put clothes thru the wringer zeusdogmom Apr 29 #3

A 75 minute dry to dry should not be underestimated irisblue Apr 29 #9

My mom also claudette Apr 29 #4

We still use an outdoor clothes line. Bed sheets Emile Apr 29 #5

love my clothesline KT2000 Apr 29 #6

I used the wooden dryer racks to dry underwire bras, panties and cotton sweaters irisblue Apr 29 #7

I still have my wooden racks. Used them fo the same things you did. True Blue American Apr 29 #14

it's not a clothes line DBoon Apr 29 #8

Right! True Blue American Apr 29 #15

Yes, and I miss having a solar dryer as I'm in a condo now Deuxcents Apr 29 #16

We had a tub/roller wringer washer dweller Apr 29 #10

Is your brother ok? Sometimes dumbasses learn irisblue Apr 29 #17

Oh yeah he's ok dweller Apr 29 #19

Yeah, we had that when I was a little kid. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 29 #11

Did your Mom have basement clothes lines . My mom did. irisblue Apr 29 #18

Yeah there was a basement clothesline. PoindexterOglethorpe May 1 #38

Ugh ugh irisblue May 1 #40

Remember the smell of the clothes just from in from being dried on the clothes line? Peregrine Took Apr 29 #12

I am in tbe US. A friend told me the Irish do different. I bow to their different irisblue Apr 29 #13

That was very entertaining. 3catwoman3 Apr 29 #20

My mom had a clothes line too. I miss the smell of sheets that applegrove Apr 29 #21

My condo in FL has lines and i LOVE THEM bedazzled Apr 29 #22

So did mine. We didn't get an automatic washing machine until 1966... malthaussen Apr 30 #23

We have a clothes line that runs probably 40 feet. LuckyCharms Apr 30 #24

You're welcome to mine. I hang a quilt out if I happen to wash one, but I try to avoid drying Vinca Apr 30 #25

You can still buy them wryter2000 Apr 30 #26

Nice to go down memory lane. I remember my grandma's/great grandma's old washing machine, with the tumblers on SWBTATTReg Apr 30 #27

The bane of the clothesline: birds. patphil Apr 30 #28

My job was to wipe off the cotton rope and bring out the cloth bag of clothes pins. irisblue Apr 30 #32

I forgot that one little treat. patphil Apr 30 #33

I have a wind up clothes line Marthe48 Apr 30 #29

I have a 4 line version on the back porch for rainy days or delicate fabrics that can't handle Kali Apr 30 #31

I saw those Marthe48 Apr 30 #36

to me driers are worse than small plastic water bottles Kali Apr 30 #30

I remember my mother doing the laundry for a family of six in the bath tub. Chainfire Apr 30 #34

When the weather is right Chautauquas Apr 30 #35

I had one for years, called it my solar dryer Wicked Blue May 1 #37

those damn ringer machines never seem safe dembotoz May 1 #39