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 Mori: Biff got sore about coin-op driers and decided to take advantage of the hot summer. We now have a clothesline, which costs eight loads of drying. It'll pay for itself within a couple months and we didn't need to hoard quarters to buy it. (Also clothespins and rope are handy for all sorts of crap, not just drying clothes.)

Turns out I enjoy hanging clothes out to dry! There's something meditative and unhurried about it. (It helps that we only have to do one load every two weeks and nobody else is hopping to use our line.) Since our room is comically overlarge for us and has pre-AC high ceilings, we plan to screw in eye screws into our door beams and make an indoor line so we can keep doing this in winter. We'll have sweaters flopping in our face once every two weeks, but that seems a small price to pay, relative to hoarding quarters. 

Date: 2023-07-29 07:23 am (UTC)
pantha: (Default)
From: [personal profile] pantha
Clothes lines are indeed very awesome. I'm upgrading mine with a "mesh herb dryer" for drying various other things (notably, fleece for spinning). Wishing you many sunny, breezy days for your laundry. <3

Date: 2023-07-30 06:05 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] the_broken_tower
Clotheslines are underrated.

(I'd suggest a towel or something safely absorbent under drying clothes if they're still drippy, for flooring's sake)

- Kama (he/him)

Date: 2023-07-31 05:56 pm (UTC)
pantha: (Default)
From: [personal profile] pantha
Yeah, by hand. First very hot but with no agitation, to melt and get rid of the lanolin. Then cooler but with a little agitation to get out the particulates (dirt, vegetable matter) and suint (sheep sweat).

Definitely not in a machine. You'd probably felt it that way!
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