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I think it's charming, actually.

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i think line drying is all fine and dandy until 1) some bird poops on your laundry and 2) you forget about your clothes and a storm rolls through soaking them all and putting you back to square one. i dry some clothes on a rack indoors but with the amount of laundry i do for two adults and a kid, i can't afford to wait on line drying.

What @gleek said.

I was personally entertained driving home one afternoon to see the next door neighbour's wife fine intimates blowing in the breeze on a line on front porch.

With cotton, linen and rayon on a clear, warmish to hot day, the laundry I put outside typically dries in about one to two hours; that on the rack inside, in about four to five.

I had a roommate in college who always had pairs of jeans laying around our dorm room drying. I had to draw a line when she asked me if she could drape her pants over my closet door. Those pants were everywhere: on the AC/heater, on the back of her desk chair, on the towel bars in the bathroom, laying in the middle of the floor, dangling off her upper bunk and dripping on my bed, etc. I'm all for drying clothes naturally, but OUTSIDE!

I wish I had the space and the permission from my landlord (I live near downtown) to put up a line so I could hang my bedding out to dry. I have many fond memories from my childhood of running through the sheets on the clothesline and then that night smelling the outdoors in my bed.

It's great until you live in FL during the rainy season. We're still trying to figure out how to get this one to work...so far the only answer is getting them out on the line during the morning which means 6:00 a.m. laundry sessions. Kids like to pull them off the drying rack inside, so that is a last resort option. Ideas are welcome sanity savers....please :)

I'd draw the line at drying things in your front yard or where they are visible on the front porch. This is best left to backyards and non-street-facing balconies/porches.

Personally, I use my dryer. My neighbors are grill-crazy and have one of those outdoor fireplaces. So my clothes would end up smelling if I dried them outside.

I can recall chatting with some family members who were in the midst of a battle with a next-door neighbor re: line-drying clothes. To my surprise, they were actually against it, arguing that it brought property values down. ("This is an upscale neighborhood, everyone can afford a dryer," they said.)

They successfully lobbied the HOA to explicitly forbid line-drying clothes. These same people later told me they found the laundry hanging between buildings in Rome "charming"!

We use a clothesline in pricey coastal LA. Not only does it save energy and $ and reduce our carbon footprint, we are helping to keep the Beach Cities affordable!

Seriously, my neighbors don't seem to mind and about half of them use a clothesline for at least part of their laundry.

I put a tutorial about line-drying clothes at
http://badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-use-clothesline.html

I live in Canada and many cities that have previously banned line drying are now encouraging once again.
I personally don't, and believe me I have all kinds of guilt for it, because we live on a somewhat busy street across from a park and have a back alley. I've tried, but if the amount of dust that accumulates on the patio table is any indication, I'd only end up doing more laundry.
I try my hardest to cut in other ways.