Clothesline, or other drying alternatives.

[kcult]

When we bought our house in '99, my wife had mentioned wanting a clothesline. She's mentioned it more than once, over the years.

Considering I'll be doing the bulk of the chores in retirement, clothes washing and drying being a part of that, I find myself thinking about using the clothes dryer less often. I've actually begun taking my jeans out of the wash, and throwing them across the backs of the patio chairs.

I don't see me drying everything like that, but I am interested in something that would allow me to hang stuff out to dry, when appropriate. But, I don't really want a permanent clothesline in the yard. I don't need another obstacle to cut or weed eat around.

What's out there, or if you're drying garments, a la nature's way, what are you using, or rather, how are you doing it?

 

[Geezer]

Well, you've gone 23 years without a clothesline, you can probably get by without one.

 

[cubrock]

My wife bought a couple cheap wheeled drying racks and she will hang certain clothes up in the house after they spend 15 minutes in the dryer. Saves energy and wear on the clothes and dryer.

 

[heavydoc]

Put a rock bed around the clothes line pole. Should be easy enough to spray weed killer and mow around.

 

[Tim]

Tie your drawers and underthings to the car antennae. Serves dual purpose of drying stuff and keeping people from talking about to you.

 

[Car0linab0y]

We have some drying racks for inside that fold up; also some for outside that look like the old post clothesline with the web around the post to hang clothes on.

I have a hammock stand the kids made out of pallets and 2x4's that does double duty as clothesline frame.

My wife also found small racks for underwear etc to hang from a hook inside.

Will edit with links if I can find them

Amazon product ASIN B06VY6DP7B
Amazon product ASIN B06VY6DP7B

 

[Car0linab0y]

Similar to this for outside...

Amazon product ASIN B001H1GUXW

 

[GoWolfpack]

We have some drying racks for inside that fold up; also some for outside that look like the old post clothesline with the web around the post to hang clothes on.

I have a hammock stand the kids made out of pallets and 2x4's that does double duty as clothesline frame.

My wife also found small racks for underwear etc to hang from a hook inside.

Will edit with links if I can find them

Amazon product ASIN B06VY6DP7B
Amazon product ASIN B06VY6DP7B

Can't wait to put my underwear chandelier together.

I hang my workout clothes over a box fan at work.

 

[Belcher79]

I tend to start an argument with the wife, then all that hot air drys things pretty fast!

 

[Johnny]

Sounds to me like you just need more patio chairs.

 

[yard mongrel]

You can run a detachable clothes line between two extant structures or trees and just unhook them when you mow.

 

[kcult]

Sounds to me like you just need more patio chairs.

People may get the wrong idea.

 

[NCLivingBrit]

These were always the best way to dry clothes outdoors when I was a kid, for the 3 days a year it didn't rain back home.

They are easy to set up and don't sag like a long line and fold up like an umbrella which is important when your back garden is the size of a portajohn.

 

[Carolinatlc]

I mounted something similar to this on the side of my shed at our old house. Used it for drying rugs or other larger items. Works pretty good and stays out of the way when not in use.
Minky Homecare Outdoor Retractable Clothesline, 2x 49 Feet, Gray https://a.co/d/jf7HhqR

 

[beeleafs]

There is nothing like clean sheets dried on the clothes line! Just saying.....

 

[The Last Outlaw]

You can run a detachable clothes line between to extant structures or trees and just unhook them when you mow.

 

[GymB]

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These were always the best way to dry clothes outdoors when I was a kid, for the 3 days a year it didn't rain back home.

They are easy to set up and don't sag like a long line and fold up like an umbrella which is important when your back garden is the size of a portajohn.

One of these. Easy to pour a base that’s flush so you just mow over it.

 

[HawgBonz]

You can go all "bushcrafty" and tie a nice taut ridgeline out of not-so-stretchy cordage.
Easy enough to pop up/off when ya want.
Real easy ta YouTube.. 😁 👍

 

[325rto]

There is nothing like clean sheets dried on the clothes line! Just saying.....

And jeans fresh off the clothesline.

 

[Red Marley]

I gotta explain everything? This is the setup. Three lines, Kevlar rope with tension adjusters, on pulleys so you can stand in one place and do the whole load. Treated 4x4s set in three feet of concrete. Neighbors think we’re hillbillies; we don’t care. We’re sleeping on crisp sheets that you can’t get out of a dryer. This is the way

 

[The Last Outlaw]

I gotta explain everything? This is the setup. Three lines, Kevlar rope with tension adjusters, on pulleys so you can stand in one place and do the whole load. Treated 4x4s set in three feet of concrete. Neighbors think we’re hillbillies; we don’t care. We’re sleeping on crisp sheets that you can’t get out of a dryer. This is the way
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Now that is a serious clothesline!

 

[MCQUADE]

We have a similar setup as @Red Marley but just one long line. It’s attached to the house and you can load it up while standing on the back porch and roll it out to the post by the shack in the pic. It’s pretty high off the ground, probably 12 ft or more. I think we got it from an Amish place 10+ years ago.

 

[Timfoilhat]

My in-laws had a retractable clothes line. Mounted to the house. It had a spring mechanism that reeled it back in.

 

[Les White]

My house had a clothes line when I bought it. Thought it would be nice to save the cost of power to dry a comforter in the electric dryer by drying it on the clothes line instead.

Birds crapped all over the comforter.

It saved nothing. Took down the clothes line the next day so I didn't have to mow around it anymore.

 

[Burt Gummer]

Isn’t a standard clothesline too far off the ground for you to reach?

 

[kcult]

Isn’t a standard clothesline too far off the ground for you to reach?