I'm American and I DO hang my washing out on the line (weather permitting of course)!!! I punctuate with exclamation marks because unfortunately many of my fellow citizens seem to have decided that this is unsightly, or low-class, or something ridiculous like that, and I am feeling rebellious against this snobbery. Makes absolutely no sense to me; as you point out, washing dried on a line smells FANTASTIC, and moreover it costs nothing (and as it doesn't require electricity it doesn't contribute to global warming, etc.). Three cheers for the clothes-line!! 🦀🐂
Isn’t that crazy that people think that? I live in a neighborhood where the homeowners association has a rule against hanging clothes out. The only reason I don’t do it is because it’s very buggy here and there are lots of spiders and I don’t want to do it by myself, but I’m with you. I would love to say to heck with you and put my clothes outside. I do sometimes lay them out over the deck rails. Yeah, it saves energy! And nothing smells as good as sun-dried cloth. 💕
Good for you! It might be snobbery but I think your fellow citizens might just be lazy. I recently house sat for some friends who have a clothes line and I kept thinking about how everything would smell so good if I used it, but I invariably washed my clothes late at night and/or didn’t have the umph to do the extra step of hanging them to dry 😅 I think it helps when it’s your habit and you don’t have to have a conversation about it.
Thanks Gemma! Gorgeous fall weather here, and our neighbor has been out in his tractor making hay. I love to see the cleanly cut field and all the completed bails when I go for my walks. It’s also Tuesday again which is the day I meet up with my dad, my brother, his girlfriend, and my baby niece for lattes at our favorite cafe. It’s so nice to have a weekly ritual and to see my niece getting bigger every time, beginning to learn words, how to stand and clap etc. She’s recently learned to wave and give high fives 🤭🖐️
I love hanging clothes outside. I also to take my pillows out in summer, and spray them all with Eucalypt oil and have them sit in the sun. It's like the best disinfectant. I've always joked, that any exercise equipment I've bought has been a great clothes dryer and sadly the telescope that I bought over a year ago, has not been used once to look at the stars but I am always hanging clothes off it.
Totally love the fresh smell and feel of laundry from the outside. I can't have a clothesline where I live but I use a diaper or sweater rack. Sheets get draped over the chairs on the poarch!. I love Season of the Witch decks. Have a nice lie down.
All my neighbors hang their washing outside on the line. I however use the dryer because of very bad allergies in the family. Hanging clothes and bedding on the line outside just brings the pollen back inside. Learned this from my allergy doctor.
No clotheslines in my neighborhood - the HOA (Homeowners Associations) has explicit rules about not hanging clothes out on a line. Cemetery makes sense with the eclipse - something is being taken out of our lives (not necessarily a person - could be a job, a situation, etc.).
I only know one person who hangs their clothes out on a line, and it's at her summer farm house. Everyone else uses a dryer. I lived most of my life in Canada and now is the US for 3 years. But I do love the idea of having fresh clothes drawn from a line outside 💕
When I was little we were very poor so we washed our laundry in the bathtub and hung it on the line. In the winter, it felt like the water froze and fell off. 😂 In the 80s it was still fairly common but was usually considered low status. Washer and dryer machines much more socially acceptable. However these days, there's a nostalgic draw for hanging out, the linens mostly, for all the benefits our grandparents already knew. It's much nicer to do so when you don't *have* to. 😉
The flat’s in our ‘housing association’ building (over 55’s only!) are so small the majority of us can’t fit a washing machine in so use the communal laundry room. Thankfully we have dryer’s too, which is a welcome bonus. We have outdoors a broken triangle drying thingy, nor’ use nor ornament as mi father would say! 🤭 Thank you Gemma 🙏💞🌟
Is anyone else feeling rage about everything currently? Not sure if it’s astrological stuff or covid but I feel like literally tearing my hair out every moment rn
@@rebeccacatherine799I have all these happy think positive whistle a happy tune mantras written down but underneath it all I'm fighting the rage & sadness too.❤
Yes I felt enraged a week ago ! I have been betrayed and lied and I just could not calm my anger but I’m getting better. The full moon made my anger worst!
We always used to hang our clothes out on a line when I was a kid, but as soon as electric dryers came out, a lot of people stopped. In the neighborhood where I live now, it’s against the rules to do it, but if I had one, I would do it anyway, because I don’t think they can tell you that unless it’s against the city rules also. But isn’t that crazy? I remember doing that with my mom when I was a kid and our climate was very much like yours and so we were always running out to get the clothes down before it started drizzling. I also remember finding spiders on the line a lot and my mom and I would both scream and run. I think I have heard of a corn dolly, but it’s been decades, so I found that information interesting. Personally, I don’t find scarecrows scary because I think of the one in the Wizard of Oz and he was so sweet. I haven’t seen one for ages. Thank you! 💕💕
In the US any house the has a washing machine also has a dryer. Some people hang there washing out but it’s relatively uncommon and more like a quaint idea for the majority :) When I did an exchange in Edinburgh as a teenager, the family I stayed with had a drying rack in their flat that could be hoisted up to the ceiling (it was a Georgian house with good clearance). That was pretty cool, but in the US no one would bother. I guess comfort and convenience are a big thing here. It’s all central heating, dryers, and showers with good water pressure even for humble people who can’t make ends meet.
In México most ppl dry clothing on a line. I do. Others have dryers. I have had a dryer here. It's nice, too. Birdfeeder and all feeding as in the small things are lovely.
Now that I live Downtown LA I don’t but I did growing up when I lived with my parents in Arizona. Everyone around us did as well. Why not take advantage of the sun and fresh air? 😊👍 Also love the story of the corn dollies! I learned something new today. 😊
Besides " The Children of the Corn" movie I am reminded of another movie,"The Dark Secret of Harvest Home". It was a made for TV 2 part series that starred Bette Davis as Widow Fortune. Not her last role but getting close to being her last role. That movie scared me so much at the time. I remember looking for it and finding it a while back on YT. Parts of it still scared me but I think I found it more amusing than frightening as an adult.
Whenever possible I hang washing out on the line. Blessed to live in the south east of England which apparently is the driest area in the UK. I don’t own a dryer. On another cleaning note - this morning I finally tackled cleaning the oven 😳🤬Great reading Gemma ❤
Love you, thank you for your awesome work! ❤I'm in Canada, I don't hang clothes outside. I live in the city and just looking at my window sill fills my with horror, would not expose my washing to all that... My mom lives in the countryside / mountain, she has hung clothes outside all my life. 🙂
Here the clothes line is illegal and considered an eyesore. City hall hands out fines! It's so stupid. I spent $40 and a few hours of my time doing laundry on Sunday. We don't have laundry washer and dryer here in the 150 year old house.
When I lived in a house by the woods I hung my laundry outside. But I live in an apartment in the city so I can't do that outside so instead I hang them up and turn my fan onto them
I live in California, in a house and our neighbor has a circular drying line that she hangs things on to dry. For me, things that can’t go in the dryer, I do hang up to dry outside, weather permitting. But 90% of my laundry goes in the dryer. And ironing is not a thing for me so getting the clothes out right when the dryer stops is a must for the occupants of this house!! 😂
American here. When I lived in a house with my parents in my younger years, I hung clothes on the line in the sunshine. I’ve been an apartment dweller ever since and haven’t had the opportunity. I was a huge Stephen King fan, and I did see Children of the Corn. As everything of Stephen King’s that went from book to movie until Rob Reiner came along, the movie was a horrible version, and not because it was a horror movie.
Gemma I live and have lived in NYC, Connecticut, Florida and Georgia. Nowhere have I hung my laundry out to dry 😂. Many places were apartments so nowhere to hang. I don’t notice many friends I know in houses hanging their laundry out either. But would be nice and refreshing if I could.
Hi I'm in Texas and definitely no washing line lol.i have a dryer next to my washing machine. Even when I grew up in West Byfleet in Surrey in the 80s we had a dryer. Understandably, you need a proper vent to have a dryer. So it depends on newer architecture.
Nope! The other option to venting a dryer is to buy a condenser dryer. They store the water generated in a little plastic tank that you drain manually. More pricy, I got a Samsung $1650. Nz prices.
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Loved hanging wash out when I lived in the country Live in the city now😂
Hanging washing out definitely isn't as common here (Ohio) as it once was but I have two lines in my back yard that I use as much as the weather will permit. I swear I get a better night's sleep with fresh sun/air dried sheets.
I live in an apartment in Sydney. I hang all my washing on standing racks. Sheets, towels and clothes. I have a dryer but only use it during endless rainy days emergencies. It feels so wasteful to use all that electricity on the dryer. It makes me so sad to think of the millions of Americans who automatically use their dryers. So much waste and carbon.
I used to have a line but now just let it dry out so it doesn't shrink. But only because it's more traditional in Mexican culture. I agree it brings u to a serene place or to the responsibilities only u can care for. But to answer ur question majority here use a dryer so panties and what not won't be seen by neighbors since almost everyone shares a yard separated by a fence ,or rock wall ,etc.
I am an American in an apartment so I use a drier….but even when I had a house…raising my 4 children I only hung select things out on a line and only occasionally.
Lammas is actually the Christianized festival overlayed on Lughnasadh/Lunasa, a festival for the Irish god Lugh. Lammas was the Loaf-mass when loaves of the first harvest were presented in church to be blessed.
I don't know, here in Atlanta, where it's often VERY humid, I've never had any luck with my clothes drying on a line (at least without them getting moldy) -- either outside or, even, inside (in fact, the dreaded words 'hang to dry' on garments haunt my dreams). So, we have to use a tumble dryer. But that's just me. I suppose it depends on the climate where you are living in the US whether you can or not. (And, as I believe I saw in another comment, it can be considered 'low class' to hang out your laundry and some places even have rules against it, so there's that keeping people from doing it as well)
We used to hang out laundry to dry on the line , but now that I live practically in the forest , not any longer . I do miss putting out the duvet to air out on crisp ,cool , windy days . How SiLLY ! ! Brits hang their laundry out but Americans don’t ! 😹🧺
I'm American and I DO hang my washing out on the line (weather permitting of course)!!! I punctuate with exclamation marks because unfortunately many of my fellow citizens seem to have decided that this is unsightly, or low-class, or something ridiculous like that, and I am feeling rebellious against this snobbery. Makes absolutely no sense to me; as you point out, washing dried on a line smells FANTASTIC, and moreover it costs nothing (and as it doesn't require electricity it doesn't contribute to global warming, etc.). Three cheers for the clothes-line!! 🦀🐂
Isn’t that crazy that people think that? I live in a neighborhood where the homeowners association has a rule against hanging clothes out. The only reason I don’t do it is because it’s very buggy here and there are lots of spiders and I don’t want to do it by myself, but I’m with you. I would love to say to heck with you and put my clothes outside. I do sometimes lay them out over the deck rails. Yeah, it saves energy! And nothing smells as good as sun-dried cloth. 💕
It does smell fantastic doesn’t it!🥰
Good for you! It might be snobbery but I think your fellow citizens might just be lazy. I recently house sat for some friends who have a clothes line and I kept thinking about how everything would smell so good if I used it, but I invariably washed my clothes late at night and/or didn’t have the umph to do the extra step of hanging them to dry 😅 I think it helps when it’s your habit and you don’t have to have a conversation about it.
Thanks Gemma! Gorgeous fall weather here, and our neighbor has been out in his tractor making hay. I love to see the cleanly cut field and all the completed bails when I go for my walks. It’s also Tuesday again which is the day I meet up with my dad, my brother, his girlfriend, and my baby niece for lattes at our favorite cafe. It’s so nice to have a weekly ritual and to see my niece getting bigger every time, beginning to learn words, how to stand and clap etc. She’s recently learned to wave and give high fives 🤭🖐️
I love line-dried laundry!
Smells like sunlight ❤
I love hanging clothes outside. I also to take my pillows out in summer, and spray them all with Eucalypt oil and have them sit in the sun. It's like the best disinfectant.
I've always joked, that any exercise equipment I've bought has been a great clothes dryer and sadly the telescope that I bought over a year ago, has not been used once to look at the stars but I am always hanging clothes off it.
Love the idea of spraying the pillows 🙏
@@camarillobrillo1361 you can also use lavender if you prefer, which I sometimes do as it acts as a relaxant as well as disinfectant
Oh no. We've had so many planets close by like Neptune and Saturn
Totally love the fresh smell and feel of laundry from the outside. I can't have a clothesline where I live but I use a diaper or sweater rack. Sheets get draped over the chairs on the poarch!. I love Season of the Witch decks. Have a nice lie down.
Washing smells so good when it's been outside. Can dry your washing on a windy day over the winter # north east is the best. Namaste xx
We’re moving towards Mabon now, right? Fall equinox, Sept. 21.
Gemma needs to start using the Mabon Seasons of the Witch deck.
I do not hang the washing. That's what dryers are for!
No washing on the line because I have terrible allergies, so can't coat things with pollen. But growing up, my mom always hung it out to dry.
All my neighbors hang their washing outside on the line. I however use the dryer because of very bad allergies in the family. Hanging clothes and bedding on the line outside just brings the pollen back inside. Learned this from my allergy doctor.
No clotheslines in my neighborhood - the HOA (Homeowners Associations) has explicit rules about not hanging clothes out on a line. Cemetery makes sense with the eclipse - something is being taken out of our lives (not necessarily a person - could be a job, a situation, etc.).
I love the new Worzel Gummidge series by Mackenzie Crook. Really wholesome British feelings that warms your heart.
I love a washing line just bought a spinny one after years of a line across the garden ! Love the smell of outdoor dried washing 😍🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
I live in Scotland by the sea & the seagulls crap on anything hung on my washing line 😢
They sure seem to poop a lot for such medium-sized birds.
I love hanging my washing on the line. My Grandma did it and I followed her lead. The sheets are fabulous after they have been on the line..
I only know one person who hangs their clothes out on a line, and it's at her summer farm house. Everyone else uses a dryer. I lived most of my life in Canada and now is the US for 3 years. But I do love the idea of having fresh clothes drawn from a line outside 💕
I remember the horror film children of the corn
Most Americans use a dryer. I don’t really see clotheslines around. Sometimes I’ll see them out on farms in the country.
I absolutely do, weather permitting! Blankets & towels all summer! I'm in Rhode Island, USA
Yes use a drying rack outside in good weather 😊
Corn dollies are very different to scarecrows used at harvest festival time xx
In the dryer - no lines in Florida, the sheets would be covered in pollen (and pooped on by flying ducks!)
When I was little we were very poor so we washed our laundry in the bathtub and hung it on the line. In the winter, it felt like the water froze and fell off. 😂 In the 80s it was still fairly common but was usually considered low status. Washer and dryer machines much more socially acceptable. However these days, there's a nostalgic draw for hanging out, the linens mostly, for all the benefits our grandparents already knew. It's much nicer to do so when you don't *have* to. 😉
The flat’s in our ‘housing association’ building (over 55’s only!) are so small the majority of us can’t fit a washing machine in so use the communal laundry room. Thankfully we have dryer’s too, which is a welcome bonus. We have outdoors a broken triangle drying thingy, nor’ use nor ornament as mi father would say! 🤭 Thank you Gemma 🙏💞🌟
Is anyone else feeling rage about everything currently? Not sure if it’s astrological stuff or covid but I feel like literally tearing my hair out every moment rn
Yes! I thought it was just me! Rage and sadness.
@@rebeccacatherine799I have all these happy think positive whistle a happy tune mantras written down but underneath it all I'm fighting the rage & sadness too.❤
Yep. So much that my hair is literally falling out. Please keep yours if you can 😉
Yes I felt enraged a week ago ! I have been betrayed and lied and I just could not calm my anger but I’m getting better. The full moon made my anger worst!
We always used to hang our clothes out on a line when I was a kid, but as soon as electric dryers came out, a lot of people stopped. In the neighborhood where I live now, it’s against the rules to do it, but if I had one, I would do it anyway, because I don’t think they can tell you that unless it’s against the city rules also. But isn’t that crazy? I remember doing that with my mom when I was a kid and our climate was very much like yours and so we were always running out to get the clothes down before it started drizzling. I also remember finding spiders on the line a lot and my mom and I would both scream and run. I think I have heard of a corn dolly, but it’s been decades, so I found that information interesting. Personally, I don’t find scarecrows scary because I think of the one in the Wizard of Oz and he was so sweet. I haven’t seen one for ages. Thank you! 💕💕
American who doesn't use a line at all. I remember in the 60s a lot of moms did, but it kinda faded out.
Tha hand cream is from Trader Joes! I love Trader Joes! Most everything sold there is healthier for you.😊😊
I used to hang my washing on the line I love the freshness of it . But my line is worn and will no longer hold laundry. Thank you Gemma ❤😊
In the US any house the has a washing machine also has a dryer. Some people hang there washing out but it’s relatively uncommon and more like a quaint idea for the majority :) When I did an exchange in Edinburgh as a teenager, the family I stayed with had a drying rack in their flat that could be hoisted up to the ceiling (it was a Georgian house with good clearance). That was pretty cool, but in the US no one would bother. I guess comfort and convenience are a big thing here. It’s all central heating, dryers, and showers with good water pressure even for humble people who can’t make ends meet.
❤️❤️thank you my lovely Gemma ❤️🐉❤️🐉love
Absolutely love the story about the corn dollies ❤🙏❤
I would if I could! Nothing smells better than clothes off a clothesline! Dryers just don’t do it in nyc 😢
In México most ppl dry clothing on a line. I do. Others have dryers. I have had a dryer here. It's nice, too. Birdfeeder and all feeding as in the small things are lovely.
Now that I live Downtown LA I don’t but I did growing up when I lived with my parents in Arizona. Everyone around us did as well. Why not take advantage of the sun and fresh air? 😊👍
Also love the story of the corn dollies! I learned something new today. 😊
Besides " The Children of the Corn" movie I am reminded of another movie,"The Dark Secret of Harvest Home". It was a made for TV 2 part series that starred Bette Davis as Widow Fortune. Not her last role but getting close to being her last role. That movie scared me so much at the time. I remember looking for it and finding it a while back on YT. Parts of it still scared me but I think I found it more amusing than frightening as an adult.
Whenever possible I hang washing out on the line. Blessed to live in the south east of England which apparently is the driest area in the UK. I don’t own a dryer.
On another cleaning note - this morning I finally tackled cleaning the oven 😳🤬Great reading Gemma ❤
wow that was a fun one! thank You ~~ 💛💛
Love you, thank you for your awesome work! ❤I'm in Canada, I don't hang clothes outside. I live in the city and just looking at my window sill fills my with horror, would not expose my washing to all that... My mom lives in the countryside / mountain, she has hung clothes outside all my life. 🙂
Here the clothes line is illegal and considered an eyesore. City hall hands out fines! It's so stupid.
I spent $40 and a few hours of my time doing laundry on Sunday. We don't have laundry washer and dryer here in the 150 year old house.
Hi I let a note on the one extended about the judgement card did you see it , it was Leo mid September
I have never hung my laundry😂, not even in college and I’m in my mid-fifties!
When I lived in a house by the woods I hung my laundry outside. But I live in an apartment in the city so I can't do that outside so instead I hang them up and turn my fan onto them
I haven't had a clothesline since I was a small child & I'm 71. Been using a dryer right next to the washer.
I live in California, in a house and our neighbor has a circular drying line that she hangs things on to dry. For me, things that can’t go in the dryer, I do hang up to dry outside, weather permitting. But 90% of my laundry goes in the dryer. And ironing is not a thing for me so getting the clothes out right when the dryer stops is a must for the occupants of this house!! 😂
Namaste 🕶️🙏
American here. When I lived in a house with my parents in my younger years, I hung clothes on the line in the sunshine. I’ve been an apartment dweller ever since and haven’t had the opportunity. I was a huge Stephen King fan, and I did see Children of the Corn. As everything of Stephen King’s that went from book to movie until Rob Reiner came along, the movie was a horrible version, and not because it was a horror movie.
Gemma I live and have lived in NYC, Connecticut, Florida and Georgia. Nowhere have I hung my laundry out to dry 😂. Many places were apartments so nowhere to hang. I don’t notice many friends I know in houses hanging their laundry out either. But would be nice and refreshing if I could.
Woop 1st, lol
Ohh great cards. ❤❤
I saw that question/meme about washing.
If I can, weather depending, I love to hang out my washing, smells lovely 😊😊
Hi I'm in Texas and definitely no washing line lol.i have a dryer next to my washing machine. Even when I grew up in West Byfleet in Surrey in the 80s we had a dryer. Understandably, you need a proper vent to have a dryer. So it depends on newer architecture.
Nope! The other option to venting a dryer is to buy a condenser dryer. They store the water generated in a little plastic tank that you drain manually. More pricy, I got a Samsung $1650. Nz prices.
Loved hanging wash out when I lived in the country
Live in the city now😂
Hanging washing out definitely isn't as common here (Ohio) as it once was but I have two lines in my back yard that I use as much as the weather will permit. I swear I get a better night's sleep with fresh sun/air dried sheets.
I live in an apartment in Sydney. I hang all my washing on standing racks. Sheets, towels and clothes. I have a dryer but only use it during endless rainy days emergencies. It feels so wasteful to use all that electricity on the dryer. It makes me so sad to think of the millions of Americans who automatically use their dryers. So much waste and carbon.
We hang our cloths on the line in Canada as well, not jeans though they come out to tuff lol
If I have access to a dryer, I’ll use that, but when I don’t, my laundry gets hung dry.
I remember a corn dolly in a horror film. I think it came alive 🥴
I used to have a line but now just let it dry out so it doesn't shrink. But only because it's more traditional in Mexican culture. I agree it brings u to a serene place or to the responsibilities only u can care for. But to answer ur question majority here use a dryer so panties and what not won't be seen by neighbors since almost everyone shares a yard separated by a fence ,or rock wall ,etc.
I don’t have a clothesline. If I hang something to dry, I hang it in the laundry room. Sheets and towels all go in the dryer. 🧺
I'm an American and I do both, clothes on the line and everything else in the dryer. I just don't like stiff towels 😊
I am an American in an apartment so I use a drier….but even when I had a house…raising my 4 children I only hung select things out on a line and only occasionally.
9/11 in the cross sum as I came in here... next job eclipsed away... Welcoming in new beginnings. 😊🧚♀
Lammas is actually the Christianized festival overlayed on Lughnasadh/Lunasa, a festival for the Irish god Lugh. Lammas was the Loaf-mass when loaves of the first harvest were presented in church to be blessed.
I don't know, here in Atlanta, where it's often VERY humid, I've never had any luck with my clothes drying on a line (at least without them getting moldy) -- either outside or, even, inside (in fact, the dreaded words 'hang to dry' on garments haunt my dreams). So, we have to use a tumble dryer.
But that's just me. I suppose it depends on the climate where you are living in the US whether you can or not.
(And, as I believe I saw in another comment, it can be considered 'low class' to hang out your laundry and some places even have rules against it, so there's that keeping people from doing it as well)
I need to put a line up again. Clothes hung in the lune smell so good and it yses less energy.
I haven't hung clothes on a line outside. I love the idea, though.
Yes do hang wash on the line. It's about half and half I would guess.. Half is roughly 160,000 million people...😳
People in America still do, though it is not as common as it once was, as a lot of yards don’t have the posts.
NOT in the South……if you do it is moldy because there is toooooo much humidity.
Too much pollen as well.
Yep. What I said as well.
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I live in America and I have a clothesline.
I do not hang my washing on the line, I am American
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We used to hang out laundry to dry on the line , but now that I live practically in the forest , not any longer .
I do miss putting out the duvet to air out on crisp ,cool , windy days .
How SiLLY ! ! Brits hang their laundry out but Americans don’t ! 😹🧺
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I hang most everything. Rarely use the dryer. I’m from Utah.
No most everyone I know in Massachusetts 🇺🇲 does not or rarely dry the laundry on a clothes line outside 🧺
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