The Premier said during his announcement, "There's a whole generation of kids growing up today who think a clothesline is a wrestling move".
Hanging clothes outside? Where everyone can see them?? What a concept!
No longer will the woosh of electric clothes dryers be heard across the Province, now we can hang our unmentionables out to dry on a sunny day and not worry about offending the neighbours.
I've been doing it for years.
There really used to be a ban??? Oh my! What has the world come to! Good for you, Ex-S, for doing it for years! It reminds me of my mother, who even hung diapers out to drive in freezing weather in MI when we were babies. They would freeze to the line.
ReplyDeleteI'm just as surprised as Ginnie to hear this. I wonder when it was implemented in the first place.
ReplyDeleteAnd while you are hanging your wash out, I'm hoping that I'll be able to wah again soon (our washing machine died on us yesterday!)
great photo!
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ReplyDeleteHow are you? I'm sorry I've been rather hopeless at staying in touch recently - as opposed to you (thanks very much for the comments, they are very much appreciated). I hope you are well and that the Variety Show was a resounding success (which I'm sure it was from all the updates and piccies I've seen of the preparations).
My lip is back to normal now, and so I have no more excuse to hide behind for scaring away the girls!
All the best, Erik.
(closes mouth after jaw dropped in astonishment) There was a BAN on hanging out your clothes to dry? Are Canadian clothes that hideous when drying? ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the ban has been lifted. It was a stupid idea and it is much better for my favourite planet that clothes get hung out to dry.
Many subdivisions across Ontario had by-laws in place. My own city included. When we first moved into our townhouse 24 years ago, I was disappointed that we couldn't use anything more than those ugly umbrella shaped laundry dryers. I've been using a dryer all along, but now I'm surveying my back yard for placement of a clothesline.
ReplyDeleteWow! Even here in Florida where we have sun all the time one doens't see a clothesline very often. My mother always hung hers out, and I remember her having some underwear stolen once.
ReplyDeleteShe finally broke down and got a dryer. I must confess I use a dryer all the time. I don't even have a sunny spot in my back yard...the swimming pool is there.
Hi, I too cant believe you wern't allowed clothes lines, we in the UK have always had streets and lanes full of washing (particularly on Modays, thats washing day)since I dont know when. When we first had the kids my wife had to light a fire under a copper boiler to heat the water, then do the washing by hand and wring it out through a mangle and hang out, many a day it froze solid.When we brought it it in we dried it off in front of the coal fire on wooden hangers.
ReplyDeleteHey its sunny too.great shot.
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Really? What a progress and green way of drying, not to mention the fresh smell from the air and nature.
ReplyDeleteI remember a conversation Jimmy and I had with a friend about clothes on a line. Mind you, this was YEARS ago, 10+, so now with the environmental concerns I suspect his opinions have changed. But whenever he would see clothes out to dry on a line, he'd think "the Projects" or urban squaller. We argued with him that a lot of people like the fresh scent of air dried clothes and he said that's why they make Bounce. LOL, there was no arguing with him. Of course, the boy was born and raised in a city, so had no concept of the homeyness of clothes on a line. Perhaps waay back when Ontario had the ban, they were afraid of people like him making assumptions about urban squaller. I personally think that's..eh hem...lame (as I tried to argue with him, lol) but people are silly like that.
ReplyDeleteI do love my clotheslines--they haven't been banned yet. I always call rain the extra rinse cycle.
ReplyDeletenice shot--pretty
I'm not crazy about showing my drawers to the world but I do love hanging the clothes out. I've heard there are subdivisions where you can't even have a clothes line. Crazy world!
ReplyDeleteWHY did they ban drying clothes outdoors??? how strange! i remember the wonderful scent of line-dryed clothes--which, yes, at certain times of the year, were stiff if not exactly frozen solid. i also remember cussing the deer who nightly entered our orchard to dine on the apples. they'd walk about 10 feet back toward the field beyond our yard (putting them directly under our clotheslines) and be overcome with the urge to poop. gee!
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of that before, altho i know that some places that you may be camping at won't allow it. LOL Anyway i love the smell of clothes when they have been hung on the line. Actually drys so much faster then in the dryer.
ReplyDeleteSounds like good sense as prevailed.... nothing smells sweeter that clean sheets for the cloths line.
ReplyDeleteway to go!! use the sun to dry your clothes instead of a dryer... it's energy-free and environmentally friendly
ReplyDeleteHow awful, not to be able to hang your washing outside!!! I couldn't bear it!!!
ReplyDeleteLots of developements with Neighborhood Associations here in CA have a ban against clotheslines. They consider them "unsightly". Of course I consider some of the those same developements unsightly themselves.
ReplyDeleteA bed made with fresh sheets right off the line? What could be better for a good nights sleep?
Darla
oh there is a ban on hanging up laundry to dry? it sounds silly right?
ReplyDeleteglad that the ban's lifted!
So are we going to see the unmentionables?!?!?! ;-)
ReplyDeleteDidn't they pass a law in Ontario 10 years ago that you could be topless in your own yard and yet is was still illegal to hang your unmentionables?? I never knew...
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