General Chat

I have a rotary line and dry everything outside including my Drawers weather permitting.

Had a few mishaps if someone forgets to shut the garden gate and the lab pup gets up there.

It is quite a sight seeing him swinging on the line or running round the garden with my drawers on his head!

My daughter who has come back home to live is queen of the tumble dryers!

Aileen xxx

I don't have a washing line so everything is dried on an airer and the radiators.

i use the line when i can but use the radiators when i cant i air the house well so no damp

I use a dryer since my brother ran over my rotary line with his caravan still waiting for new one Valxxx

I use my rotary drier when the weather permits, but then, I don't have a drier lol

I have an airing cupboard in my bedroom with hanging space which I use.

I miss my pulley -anyone still got one -we had to take it down when we lowered the kitchen ceiling. My tumble dryer is in the bathroom, Ros xx

I remember my mother telling me not to put out several pairs of knickers at a time or people will think you don`t wash very often -didn`t heed her !!

i have a washing line, n use my tumble dryer for 5mins to soften my kids underwear as they r only ikkle...xx

My mum used to hang blue things next to the white ones. She thought it made the whites look whiter! Remember the little blue bag anyone???

I remember "dolly blue bags" Cynthia , my Mum used to let me play with one in the sink , it turned the water blue and I could pretend it was the deep blue sea : )

I've got a tumble drier but I only ever use it for emergencies.

We've got a whirligig clothes line which I put out in good weather. I take it down between times. I can't use it in the autumn because washing gets blobs of bird mess (usually stained with blackberries!).

I'm really lucky that between our house and the garage was a corridor which was covered in when the house was new. One end of the corridor has several permanent lines for washing. I can just hang stuff over the lines rather than peg it and it dries really quickly because the boiler is out there and the see-through roof lets the sun in on bright days. So washing dries in 24 hours or so out there and I can get about 3 loads out at once.

I did discover a while ago that if my whirligig is full of washing and it starts to rain that I can pick the whole thing up and transfer it to a garden parasol stand in our conservatory. It takes up most of the room but the roof is high so it works.

Odd socks etc get put to dry on radiators.

Sue

Methinks we're showing our age!!!

Yes prefer to use the clothes line and only use the tumble dryer if its raining and I need to dry something quickly. There is a great satisfaction for me drying clothes outside on the line. And yes I am `older` as well. lol

Maybe so Cynthia..........but I have only played with blue bags......not actually used them in the laundry process.........lol

Can you still get them I wonder ?

Well I have had a good laugh reading some of your comments
Val.......I wish you could see my whirleygig clothes line. It looks like my brother ran over it but I can't blame him as he lives in Canada.....lol...it is just old age.... I say I need a new one but OH assures me that it will be fine if it is rethreaded.
Joan.......Had a good laugh at your Mum trying to put it up and almost hanging herself. Reminded me of the Dolmio advert......lol
Cynthia........Thanks for the memory. I am sure few kids today know what a bluebag was. It was a good cure for a bee sting too....vinegar for a wasp sting and blue bag for a bee sting. I don't know what to put on a bee sting now.......lol

I use the line whenever possible, and hang clothing from hangers and hang those on the top of the door frames if necessary so air can cirulate round them and they dry without needing ironing.
Socks and undies I peg on to one of those multi peg things, from poundshop or similar, then if it rains you just bring the whole caboodle in and don't get soaked unpegging sock after sock. I also got some of those multi hangers for tops, so can do all o.h.'s work tshirts and hang them up in one, from the line if nice weather and they finish off a treat, or from the machine if wet outside and they dry inside. I only use the dryer in the washer/dryer for towels and such.
Can't beat a nice line of washing blowing in the wind.
Lizx

i would only have a couple of loads a week if my 20yr old was not at home lol but as that is all i see of him really its not too bad

La Gooner you beat me to it with the Bicarb. I always have a tub of it in the house - its good for indegestion and cleaning out flasks or tea pots.
Tina x

its good for unblocking drains with vinegar and sugar too

Amanda, I only just remember them - honestly! Don't know if they are still around though. Imagine telling a youngster at the checkout what they were for! They'd think we were crackers with all the poncey stuff you can get now!!!!!