[SeeAPenny]

In winter I hang clothes on the drying racks in my bathroom. It's big enough to accommodate two large racks and one small -- right near the heat duct so they dry in a flash. Hanging in there doesn't work in warm, damp/humid months however because the clothes take far too long to dry -- so that they actually 'sour' and all that . That's when everything gets moved out to the clothesline again.....

Speaking of clotheslines, I have to say I really love the one my husband rigged up for me. It's based on what we observed when we were driving through southern Ontario a few years back, and haven't seen anywhere else. The outdoor clotheslines in Canada (the area we drove through anyway), from country homes to town homes, were on pulleys. Not unusual in and of itself -- the interesting thing, was that one end would be attached to a pole in the ground, and the other end strung up as high as humanly possible, either at the top peak of the house, of the barn, etc. It was astonishing to see all this laundry flapping in the breeze so far high up overhead -- but it made a lot of sense! For one thing, the extra angle actually makes for a longer line, allowing for more hanging room -- plus, it keeps the laundry up and out of the way overhead, so that one can actual still USE their yard while the clothes dry. The kids can still play, etc. Plus, the pulley system allows several lines to be strung back and forth close together, making even more hanging room. After seeing this, I asked my husband to create a 'Canadian clothesline' for me, and he did -- attaching one end (actually a double line) to the second story of our home with pulleys. Hanging laundry is a snap now. Instead of working my way down the clothesline, lifting and dragging the basket of heavy wet laundry along (not that I don't need the extra exercise), I can just stand in one place and actually move the CLOTHESLINE, pulling it up bit by bit as the clothes are hung (--same thing when the clothes come off -- I just stand there and drop the clothes one-by-one in the basket below). And now when the clothes are hung, it doesn't cut our yard 'in half'. The clothes are up over our heads -- no worries when the kids have friends over to play in the yard, etc.

I don't know why this hasn't caught on everywhere ....