[mountainmist]

With the exception of very light weight shirts, and any item made of polar fleece or wool, I don't do any line drying during the wintertime, I don't think it's safe, there are way too many molds and fungii that can develop when you try to dry bath towels, blue jeans, etc. And I sure won't line dry sheets to give the dust mites even more opportunity to LIVE, they are very dangerous for the lungs, and there's enough stress on the health from cold and flu bugs during the winter.

Many people do not realize that when you hang your wash in the SUN, the ultraviolet rays of the sun SANITIZE your clothing - but this ain't gonna happen in the dead of winter with snow on the ground.

In old pioneer days when they had to line dry, they had MANY fewer items than we moderns, and the women BOILED the clothing on the stove which destroyed all the viruses, the fungii, the mold spores and assorted bacteria which flourish and grow in damp wet cool conditions.

I'm not going to turn up the heat in order to dry laundry, I'll use a hot dryer.