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10/2/2012

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"Hanging out the laundry may be impracticable for many people. You may live in the city with nowhere to put a clothesline. You may live in one of the increasing number of suburban developments that ban clotheslines (itself a very interesting attempt at suppressing the reality of housework and detaching people from their natural environments). You may live in a climate where line-drying days are rare. Or you may simply work full time at a job that precludes the kind of flexibility necessary to respond to beautiful weather by doing laundry.
     But if you work flexible hours or are at home and if you have a place to put a clothesline, why not hang laundry out? So much of modern life is disconnected from the world beyond our doors. People go to work or to school whether it rains or shines; they exercise indoors on stationary bicycles rather than riding outdoors on real bicycles. Hanging out the wash can be one small way to begin living in response to and in cooperation with the natural world, receiving both rain and sun as gifts from the God who made both us and our world."  


                                     -Margaret Kim Peterson, Keeping House 
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Rachael link
10/2/2012 07:57:56 am

You know, in New Zealand, it is still the norm to hang our washing on the line. The dryer is usually reserved for finishing clothes off on a not so sunny day, or for really bad weather. However, our electricity is so expensive, I try to avoid using the dryer when I can. Unfortunately for us at the moment, I have to hang the washing on racks inside due to one daughter having a severe pollen allergy.
I love reading your commonplace posts by the way, although I rarely comment :-)

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Laurie
10/2/2012 08:32:49 am

Rachael, Thanks for speaking up for clotheslines in New Zealand! I am glad to hear they are the norm. Somehow stopping to hang up the laundry or gather it in always felt like recess to me...a break from everything to get a stretch, a whiff of sunshine and the feel of grass underfoot. I think they are coming back! I hope so.

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Ellen, the Bluestocking Belle link
10/17/2012 02:24:03 pm

When I was young, we hung laundry on the line whenever we could. Where I live now, clotheslines are against covenants. But I'm fortunate to have a cabin where we spend much of our summers, and when I'm there, I hang laundry on the clothesline with abandon.

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