Anyone dry clothes on a clothesline?

[DebbieL]

Hanging your clothes not only saves money on energy - it saves your clothes. I hang all my clothes that I care about (anything newer, etc.). I also hang up anything like t-shirts that have a transfer on them (the dryer destroys them). I hang anything with spandex/lycra such as my jogging tops, yoga pants, bras, etc. I don't hang socks (hate the stiffness), or towels (same reason - too stiff and scratchy) or most underwear (don't care that much about them - unless they are fancy lingerie).

[TBH]

Our dryer went out this summer. We replaced it within a couple of weeks, but in the meantime we realized we kind of enjoyed hanging clothes to dry. We don't have space to do it outside so we do it on wooden drying racks in the basement. It does take me a while but I find it kind of pleasant.

[kimiko]

I usually use hangers to hang mine in the bathroom, unless I'm doing laundry because I ran out of clothes to wear

[zakity]

We hang our clothes out when the weather permits. I save $20 a month by hanging them out.

I found a wooden drying rack at a Goodwill Outlet store. I can't wait to use it this winter in front of the woodstove!

[kngavl]

I do much of my drying on a clothes line, sure it takes a little more effort but you save some money and get to spend some time outdoors. It's good for yah both ways. Just watch out of critters, I had some of my favorite shirts ruined by squirrels eating through them.

[My English Castle]

about $1 a load?

I do hang clothes out in the summer and throughout decent days in the fall and spring. I used to love doing it, but now I do it mainly to save energy, not necessarily money.
But the figures I've read, of course this all depends on energy cost and gas vs electric dryers, say it saves about $1 a load. That doesn't make the time payback very efficient for me, but still I do it.

My English in-laws don't have a dryer either, but wet clothes hanging all over the house makes me think it's 1930 there. Yuck.

[JanH]

We had a line that we could stretch out and hook to hang clothes in the laundry room, but now we often hang them in an unused bathroom. We can't hang things outside here. Sometimes, I hang things on a line in the garage. We dry sheets and towels and Hubby's Nomex uniforms. And we tend to dry underwear and socks. Hanging my clothes keeps them from shrinking so much and I think they last longer. And my dryer is pretty ancient and probably not that efficient anymore. Probably keeps the house cooler, too.