Love line dried sheets.

I also line dry jeans, sweat pants, zip-front sweatshirts and rugs. Knits and towels go in the dryer. When I lived in windy country, I line dried everything. The wind whipped them around enough to soften them up!

I only line dry my husband's work clothes, jeans, t shirts, coats etc. Also the occasional rug. I have a good area in my laundry room and hang most of the nicer clothes on hangers to dry. I only machine dry towels, sheets and underwear.

I love to line dry sheets. There isn't anything like it. However, we only have a clothes horse which is broken. I am considering making a clothes line somewhere in my backyard.

I don't own a dryer. My choice, as I sold the one that came with this house. Can't see paying for the electric it costs to dry, when the Oklahoma wind does it for free. :) I/we dry EVERYTHING on the line.

But the last laundry day I had to wash the sheets and pillow case from my bed a second time. Only the third time since I went solo, and never had a dryer again, 8 years ago.

I now have a younger housemate, and she is fine with lower utility bills. ;)

Moni

I have an Amish style clothesline with pulleys and a brake handle, so I can stand on my back deck and just crank the clothesline out to where it is attached to the wood barn. DH put a nice sturdy bench right where I put the basket down so I never have to bend. As we all know, the sheets and bedding's are heavenly.

DH prefers his clothes in the dryer.

Elizabeth do you have a source for you pulleys and line set up? I am intrigued by them.. and would love to set that up here.

I don't really have a private space to have a clothes line any longer. I had a long one at my old house. I would put sheets and rugs out. It is nice to have as a backup if the dryer goes out.

All the supplies are available on Amazon. You need cloth clothesline, two pulleys, two hooks, a line tension-er and several line separators. I took these photos from Pinterest. The clothesline ends are joined through the tension-er on the top and the loose end can be pulled tighter if the line ever droops. Clothes are hung on the bottom line only and pushed off to the side to add more. When the bottom line begins to sag, you put on a line separator to attach it to the top line. There are wheels in that device to keep it all rolling.

Thanks Elizabeth! I kept seeing such line set ups on my around the Great Lakes bicycle tour last year, but never looked at them close like this.

Moni

Just had my first summer frocks and house clothes out of storage, washed, and line dried. Yum :) Tomorrow is a turning out of house linens and some airing out of office wardrobe on hangers. No washing needed, I just like to air out the wardrobe.