Only in America........WTFF.

[Frankee]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/...us_usa_laundry

Jeebus.

[travisvwright]

Florida, Utah, Maine, Vermont, Colorado, and Hawaii have passed laws restricting the rights of local authorities to stop residents using clotheslines.

I like watching the trickle down laws.

[smiert spionam]

Putting up a clothesline has reduced my electric bills considerably.

[Trandy]

Originally Posted by smiert spionam

Putting up a clothesline has reduced my electric bills considerably.

Great point....that's a "green" thing that anyone can do.

[HammyD]

Originally Posted by smiert spionam

Putting up a clothesline has reduced my electric bills considerably.

I think it may be time to put up clothes lines and hang out politicians and legislators from them!

[Yankee Univox]

Originally Posted by HammyD

I think it may be time to put up clothes lines and hang out politicians and legislators from them!

BINGO...end of thread!!!!!!!!!!

[fetishfrog]

My mother is thee master of thrift...collecting coupons, bargain hunting, etc. One of the things she did when I was a child was hang the clothes out to dry in the summer, to save money on electricity. One day, I asked her if she really thought it saved money and we sat down to figure out how much she saved. The number was staggering, a nice used car amount staggering. This was over several years of course but still...it was a real money number.

[strat56]

I was born in the 50's and grew up in the 60's. Everyone I knew hung their clothes out to dry. A dryer was a luxury.

[scottlr]

Originally Posted by strat56

I was born in the 50's and grew up in the 60's. Everyone I knew hung their clothes out to dry. A dryer was a luxury.

Same here. We had a 3 wire 50 foot, perhaps.

We are probably the only house in our neighborhood with a clothesline. My wife put one up on the deck. I personally HATE my clothing and towels to be line dried. They end up hard and scratchy. But she hangs stuff out there all the time. Before I met her, I had a washer but no dryer. I had one of those revolving clotheslines, and I had no choice but to use it, or take my wet clothes to the laudrymat.

[P90Nut]

I seems clear to me, that he is referring to "the big picture".

Originally Posted by Flavum

So it's laundry regulations that get a rise out of you? Fascinating.

[Tom CT]

Originally Posted by Yankee Univox

No,it's the whole trend of our rights and freedoms being slowly but surely whittled away that 'gets a rise out of me'. We're paying more and more to be controlled more and more,(while the payees and controllers are living SUMPTUOUSLY,well immune to any recession,and clearly NOT living by the same rules they enforce upon us, mind you)...anyone that doesn't have at least a bit of a problem with that,I feel sorry for you. Seriously,I do!

You're aware that this has nothing to do with government, correct? From the linked article:

"Froehlich is among the growing number of people across America fighting for the right to dry their laundry outside against a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice despite its energy-saving green appeal."

Housing associations. It's apples and oranges, my friend. No offense intended.

[michael30]

The one thing that surprised me the most when I moved to the USA was how neighbours and all kinds of people wanted to stick their noses in our personal business. And this was in 1969 when things were much more liberal and easy-going than now.

[zekmoe]

We don't have anything like that, but in the 8 years + in my development, I've never seen clothes hanging and no one has a clothesline. I guess it's more because no one has the time for one. It's probably not the desire not to see them, but I'd bet 90% of the people in my area do their laundry at night when they get home. We do like 10-15 loads a week, so there's no way I'd have time to hang stuff and cart it around.
Also, we have maybe 10 to 20% nice weather. Otherwise it's raining or snowing or winter. No way I could make it effective even if I had the time.
Who are these people with all the free time?

[art_z]

don't like housing association rules, don't move to a neighborhood that has them. its a double edged sword. on one hand, I could care less if my neighbor hung his clothes out to dry. on the other hand, I would not be thrilled if turned his yard into a rat infested junk yard either.

[guitarist58]

Originally Posted by art_z

don't like housing association rules, don't move to a neighborhood that has them. ...

Many times the rules are changed and you already live there...

These ordinances often don't apply only to housing associations as well...