God forbid it look like some nice old bushas live nearby.

Clothelines are ugly, but not as ugly as busybodies who want to tell me how to live on my own property.

There should be laws barring HOA's from preventing homeowners from taking steps to reduce energy usage. In Raleigh a couple of years ago, the drought was at a critical stage, and HOA pinheads were trying to fine people for having too many rain barrels and not watering their grass.

The folks who complain about clotheslines are probably the kind of people who are holding on to their "financial success" by the very tips of their fingers and anything that reminds them that they might just be average folks is such a horrible threat to their self-esteem that they need to lash out and remove the image rather than re-evaluate their own situation and take healthy steps to improve themselves from within.

Or they could just be assholes. Either/or.

Ahhh..clothslines. I vowed I would never, ever, have one of those blasted things.

Dryers just don't do your MuMu justice.

RocketRod: The folks who complain about clotheslines are probably the kind of people who are holding on to their "financial success" by the very tips of their fingers and anything that reminds them that they might just be average folks is such a horrible threat to their self-esteem that they need to lash out and remove the image rather than re-evaluate their own situation and take healthy steps to improve themselves from within.

Or they could just be assholes. Either/or.

Can't it be both?

Will NOBODY think of the poor real estate agents?

/I don't believe for a second that a house didn't sell for months because of a neighbour's laundry. Get over yourselves.

Great. I don't think my wife is going to believe "facepalm" gave me this black eye. When we decided to build a house out in the country I looked at the costs involved - at every level - and decided one of the things is that it's well worth the $600 and six weekends to get a real estate license when undergoing such a huge investment (saved over $16000). But I think any of you that RTFA can believe the f**king retards one may encounter in that business. I will add, however, this Bridgforth coont takes the cake.

I don`t get why this is a sign of poverty...
Everyone around me hangs their laundry out to dry - even the millionaire CEO-wife I work for hangs everything out that doesn`t go to the cleaners.

I guess things are different in the US. Wow.

/Don`t even own a dryer.
//Off to hang the laundry!

OregonVet: Great. I don't think my wife is going to believe "facepalm" gave me this black eye. When we decided to build a house out in the country I looked at the costs involved - at every level - and decided one of the things is that it's well worth the $600 and six weekends to get a real estate license when undergoing such a huge investment (saved over $16000). But I think any of you that RTFA can believe the f**king retards one may encounter in that business. I will add, however, this Bridgforth coont takes the cake.



I don't know, she looks like a pleasant enough person to deal with. (her site)

what_now: Ahhh..clothslines. I vowed I would never, ever, have one of those blasted things.

Why?

When I grew up we had one -- it was great.

Where I live now we can't really have one. Out back yard is 2 acres of brush/woods/wetlands. We have so many birds that they would poop over all the clothes.

In Colorado during winter, all you need is a hanger.

TheAbstractor: I don't know, she looks like a pleasant enough person to deal with. (her site)

nice cheek implants

TheAbstractor: I don't know, she looks like a pleasant enough person to deal with

She looks like she eats children for breakfast.

NTTAWWT

They're everywhere in Spain (clotheslines that is). I think it's quite charming.

I for one don't want birds pooping on my clean clothes.

Drying clothes outside rules. They last longer and the fresh air makes them smell really good.

Don't talk to me about clotheslines. I bought one at the dollar store and couldn't figure how to use it.

Why don't you want people hanging clothes outside?
It's an eyesore that implies poverty.
Why does it imply poverty?
Well, people with money just don't use that sort of thing.
Why don't they?
Because we don't let them.
Wait a second....

My mother still hangs up her clothes to dry. So do others in my neighborhood. It seems like a pretty normal suburban activity. It's not like you see a lot of people doing that in the ghetto. They usually don't have backyards to do it in.

/uncalled for

I have a retractable clothesline that runs between the garage and the shed. When I'm not drying laundry, I roll it up and stick it on a shelf.

Pretty nifty.

What an arbitrary dislike. Also, do people in some parts of the country not have backyards...and fences around those yards?

jekxrb: She looks like she eats children for breakfast

if its not my kids, is it ok to watch ?

eddyatwork: Clothelines are ugly, but not as ugly as busybodies who want to tell me how to live on my own property.

And there it is.

I prefer the DDT.

/Oh, wait.
//I confused.

Craptastic: I have a retractable clothesline that runs between the garage and the shed. When I'm not drying laundry, I roll it up and stick it on a shelf.

Pretty nifty.

neat looking idea, how much weight can it take though? A few loads of wet laundry can get pretty heavy.

Just so some stupid ass leech of a realtor make moar moenies? What the hell is so unsightly about it anyway? It's not like a bunch of junk cars or a pile of dead animals or something.
I'm not a greenie by any means, but damn, there's this huuuuuuuge energy source for free, why wouldn't you wanna use it. And it makes your clothes nice.

Let's find a middle ground: shoot all lawyers and realtors, and we'll see from there.

When I had a line, i used it, i liked not having to spend so much on electricity. And I don't see anything unsightly about it. My neighbors didn't seem offended.

What's next, a bill women MUST shave their neither regions? Because somebody might be grossed out by that?

All realtor would have to do is spin it, right, so to speak.

Look! These houses are soooo wonderful, people can afford to dry their clothes outside! they don't have to cram a dryer into their tiny apartment! Isn't that wonderful? Work for your farking money, assholes.

I didn't RTFA (on my cellphone and it loves to get hung up on linked pages on here sometimes) but let's be real here, folks. Clotheslines, at least visible from the street is obviously going to deter the neighborhood market's growth.

This should concern any home owner in that area because the value of their property will decline, which isn't good for anyone.

Just sayin'. If I were to use clotheslines I'd keep it out of view from the street.

You'd think with what's happening to the economy, more people would realize their "high horse" was mostly an illusion, but I guess banning clotheslines is just another attempt to maintain the deception.

/sick of the "gotta look/act rich" idiocy already

Wizzin: Also, do people in some parts of the country not have backyards

I lived in California when I first arrived in this great nation

The house my daughter was born in was about 1470 sq foot, the yard was .... well lets just say dont swing a cat. They had a ban on clotheslines there too.

YES I understand "I signed the contract I agreed to it"

it IS a retarded rule though.

Hanging your clothes in the sun does a lot more than just dry them.

Ya know that big pile of "lint" that comes out of the dryer ?
Thats money
YOUR money
it's wearing down your clothes

Hanging in the sun is naturally anti bacterial
anti fungal
anti microbial
anti viral
.....
saves water (producing electricity requires water, nuclear, coal, hydro, they ALL consume water)
saves electricity

..... GLAD Im out of that reality, bought land in Oregon instead.
(still pretty fond of California though, great place to "visit")

As soon as I finish hanging my underwear out to dry, fixing my biatchen Camaro, cleaning my guns, playing Van Halen loud enough to hear outside, making a little PDA with my squeeze, and having a few friends over for some beers, I'm going to put on a shirt and write a letter to my HOA.

I love ours, during summer in Texas why heat up the house and add to the electiric bill? I can dry sheets and towels in just 20 mins with the heat we have right now

Would love to get one like Craptastic

Nothing says poverty like a clothesline in the backyard of a million dollar house.

Wizzin: What an arbitrary dislike. Also, do people in some parts of the country not have backyards...and fences around those yards?

Yes. I've lived in places that don't allow you to have fences around your yard. I've also lived in places that don't allow fences over a certain height (three feet I believe). Having lived in such an arrangement I can honestly say it sucks nuts. Mostly because people are dicks and will just walk through your yard like it's nothing or tear it up riding atvs are any number of shiat. Fences really do make the best neighbors.

baaaaaaahhhh

baaaaaaahhhh

i hope the biatch gets cancer. she's lowering our species' value.

Yomoxu: My mother still hangs up her clothes to dry. So do others in my neighborhood. It seems like a pretty normal suburban activity. It's not like you see a lot of people doing that in the ghetto. They usually don't have backyards to do it in.

/uncalled for

They do in quaint ethnic communities in New York in old movies.

/Family had a dryer
//and a clothesline
///winter can make it hard to dry outside

Simple solution. Reintroduce air polution, the kind that turns clothes black after 30 minutes in the air. That should keep the property values up, home owners association happy, and blameless real estate agents from resorting to baking soda after the sub-prime bubble make cocaine too expensive.

The least you could do is bleach out your skidmarks.

jasonmicron: at least visible from the street is obviously going to deter the neighborhood market's growth.

yeah, um, only if jerks want to live there. Which come to think of it, are the kind of people you want to keep away. Most people? Won't give a damn.

PirateFreedom: Craptastic: I have a retractable clothesline that runs between the garage and the shed. When I'm not drying laundry, I roll it up and stick it on a shelf.

Pretty nifty.

neat looking idea, how much weight can it take though? A few loads of wet laundry can get pretty heavy.

I've put three full loads on it - towels and everything. Used up every inch of all five lines with no problems. Even if one of the lines break (hasn't happened after four years), I can replace it.

Solar Powered Clothes Dryer (some assembly required)

Only 29.99!!!

I'd really like to meet these "Well we were going to buy that place til we noticed the neighbor hanging her laundry. No sale." asshats.

Or do they even exist?

Used one of these in Germany. Plan on having one again when I have a washer.



Right now it's the bathroom sink and deck railing combo.

rhiannon
Nothing says poverty like a clothesline in the backyard of a million dollar house.

Yeah, why advertise that few of the rooms in the house are furnished, and the owners are about to go into foreclosure?

/happens more than you might think

Craptastic: I have a retractable clothesline that runs between the garage and the shed. When I'm not drying laundry, I roll it up and stick it on a shelf.

Pretty nifty.

I have something that looks a lot like that, but smaller and mounted over the bathtub. Works well enough that I don't have a dryer, only a washer.

Why the fark do Americans associate clothes lines with poverty? That's probably why they think they're an eyesore as well.
<sarcasm>
How about this for a compromise: clothes lines are allowed but you have to dress up as a butler or maid before you can use them.
</sarcasm>

Ehh: I'm going to put on a shirt and write a letter to my HOA.

link ? hehehehe
share
newsletter
etc....

H.O.A..... when it is no longer "your home", because the other "owners", created an "association".... do you get to call yourself part of the holy roman empire ? (or insert any other contradictory three letter acronym here)

SuperTramp: rhiannon
Nothing says poverty like a clothesline in the backyard of a million dollar house.

Yeah, why advertise that few of the rooms in the house are furnished, and the owners are about to go into foreclosure?

/happens more than you might think

Cool. No break-ins.

Bullshiat that clotheslines mean poverty.

I make a crapload of money, and I buy expensive clothing that does best either dry cleaned (ugh -- pain in the neck) or hand-washed and air-dried. My summer silk and linen outfits should never, ever see a hot dryer.

I wash my linen in Woolite and hang it out in my back yard. Nothing smells as good as fresh linen fabric after it comes in from the sun and air.