I sure do remember them well…especially hanging out sheets in the dead of winter and how red my hands would be when I finally finished and ran back in the house. It was one chore I didn’t care for…except in the spring and early summer when the fresh smell of clothes and nature mingled together so fragrantly.
Yes…I don’t miss clotheslines…but I sure miss that smell from long ago….none of today’s sprays and perfumed detergents come close to it.
These were the rules we all lived by back then when it came to hanging out our clothes on the clothesline. Anybody else remember?
1) Wash the clothesline before hanging out your clothes…birds loved to “drop” by on them
2) Hang “whites with whites” and hang them first…separating them from the “color” clothes
3) Never hang a shirt by the collar…always the tail
4) Wash day on Monday…never ever on the weekend, especially Sunday…neighbors will talk!
5) Hide the “unmentionables” in the middle between sheets
6) Remove all clothes pins after removing the clothes…if left on…really tacky
7) Save clothes pins by hanging clothes close enough to use one clothes pin for both
Clothes off the line before dinner time
9) Fold in basket immediately after bringing them in…
10) Then iron!!!! And never , never…let the sagging clothesline hit the ground…then you…(I) were in big, big trouble…because you had to start all over!
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