[MargaretKur]

We have two drying racks, one in the bedroom and one in the "back room" plus in the back room we have pegs. Outside we use an old metal tree trimmer pole balanced between branches of a tree. We can put clothes on hangers and use that, too.

There's no washer/dryer hookup where we live, so it's either do hand laundry or go to the laundromat. I wash underwear by hand daily and do other lightweight clothes once I get enough to put in my small laundry tub which will fit into my kitchen sink. That's enough laundry to fit on the racks and on the pole outside.

In the winter our clothes can dry rather quickly, but in the summer (FL) it can take longer. We have no central heat or air, just fans and one portable electric heater. The humidity is the culprit. We just turn the fans on high for awhile if necessary when it's really humid.

Summertime is risky if you hang clothes outside. You can't do it and then leave home because it's rainy season. Just have to put them on the racks and be patient if you're not going to be home.

The clothes don't shrink from dryer heat and smell so much fresher when air dried.

Wish we had a place to put a clothesline, though, but oddly enough we have a short back yard (if you could call it that) maybe about 10 feet from the back door. The side and front yards are big (we live on a corner lot) but since there are tenants on the north side of the house, we can't use the north yard space. It has too much shade and too little breeze, so it would probably take forever to dry anything there anyway.

Waiting for spring, everyone? Me, too!