Hanging my laundry outside to dry

I was raised as a child watching my mother hang clothes on the line to dry outside. As I grew older, it was my job to freeze my fingers while removing the jeans from the line in the middle of the winter. I really didn’t think much about conserving energy, or the smell of the towels after blowing in the wind all day. I just thought my mother had to be insane for hanging out jeans in the middle of the winter.

Now that I’m the mother and am washing the clothes for my family, hanging the laundry outside to dry really appeals to the “frugal girl” in me. It also appeals to the “tree hugger” in me and I love the smell of my towels after a day of Mother Nature blowing her wind across them. It’s a little extra work between hanging up the clothes and then removing them from the line, but things that are worth doing aren’t always easy. I don’t take it quite as far as my mother did though – I do run the dryer in the winter

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