Use the fresh air to dry laundry

Windmills in Bodrum

Every day is laundry day in the Summer … because I can dry it outdoors!   I love watching our laundry blow in the wind!

I’m not sure if its my Italian heritage or the fact that in Britain, most homes have a washing line of sorts, but I love to use the fresh air to dry laundry and have a real aversion to using a tumble drier.  Even in the winter, other than for large items such as sheets, I prefer to hang laundry to dry on a wooden rack that lowers over my sink in the laundry room.  Large items will find their way into the drier in winter, when damp or cold conditions prevail outside,  but I just don’t get the same sense of satisfaction when I remove and fold them ready for ironing that I do when I remove sheets from the washing line.  The scent on outdoor-dried sheets can only be described as “fresh.”Most of my friends think I am nuts as they have grown up with tumble driers and using highly scented fabric softeners.  However, a couple have installed outdoor lines and have grown to love them!

Now, it seems the idea of line-drying laundry may be catching on more widely.  Today’s North Shore News had a great article about a “new” product that will help those living in condominiums and apartments to hang their laundry to dry outside.  There may be a few aesthetic roadblocks in terms of leasing agreements and strata byelaws but I hope that Hogan Wood will be successful in motivating more people to dry their laundry the environmentally-savvy way while saving energy and reducing living costs.