Few things are more iconic or American than seeing clothes blowing on a clothesline. It’s one of my favorite photos, and I get to take it every Sunday, laundry day here.
Clotheslines have become controversial; people living in McMansions don’t want them around; they claim it lowers property values and suggests poverty. Fourteen states have made clothesline banning illegal – there are too many rich people in America and too many poor people.
I’m happy to live in one of the 14 states. To me, this is an Edward Hopper painting. A Leica SLR-S took the photo with a Leica 50mm lens. Only Leica glass can do this for me.
Solar and wind powered close drying is a much greener option than using a dryer. My sister lives in a development that won’t allow clotheslines even though the state does.
My next door neighbor is from Poland and she has two clotheslines since she has a family with 3 boys. She and I are the only women who hang our laundry out in our neighborhood. Both houses have solar panels and clotheslines 😊. She has clotheslines in her basement that she uses in the winter. I do to, but mine isn’t long enough to hang very much on it.
Perhaps states will come to understand that wind and sun drying clothes is a better and greener solution and stop banning them.
Even if I lived in a McMansion, I’d still have a clothesline. I’ve always had one every where I’ve lived.
Holly, we love our clothesline and will keep using it, thanks. I’m sure things will change, and if necessary, we will change with them…
Clothes lines have always facilitated me. I try to figure out how many people live in that house. And their gender and appropriate age.