Environmental question...why don't more people use clotheslines?

Question

If you're concerned with conserving energy or preserving the environment... do you use a clothes dryer regularly? Why don't you use a clothesline to save energy? Or do you use both? What are your reasons?

Answer 1

because we're all lazy and too busy to take the time to hang up our clothes...I do have a clothesline, but don't use it as much due to my allergies to pollen and the neighbors cats marking my laundry as their territory...

Answer 2

I have allergies, and hanging my wet clothes outside to catch all the pollen floating around is not feasible for me. I should use my fold-up clothes rack to dry some things more often though...but we don't really have room. So...space and allergy considerations pretty much prevent my from doing that.

Answer 3

We hang our laundry to dry at my house about 6 months a year. Rains too much in the winter. Not everybody has the space.

Answer 4

I don't bc it takes too long. And I have and energy effecient dryer, so I don't worry too much about it.

Answer 5

I use both because the dryer waas expennsive and the clothes line takes longer and then it rains sometimes, but i still want to conserve energy. people dont do that more because they are too freaking lazy and they dont realize in a round  about way they are killing themselves.

Answer 6

I use both. I can't always use a clothes line outside because it will rain for days or it will be winter time. In those times, I use my dryer indoors. When I can, though, I love my clothes line. It definetly helps conserve energy.

Answer 7

I used to live in a place right next to several main roads, a railway line, and no garden/yard area to speak of. I would have loved to hang clothes out to dry, but there was nowhere to do it. And our house was so permanently cold that items hung in the house would never get dry.

Thankfully now we live in the middle of the countryside, and I have several clotheslines zig-zaging across my back garden. I feel alot better for it on many levels, including the environmental impact and also the fact that we're saving a small fortune by not using the dryer!

However, I do like using the tumble dryer for items like towels, as they dry fluffier then :)

Answer 8

especially in urban settings there's no room for clotheslines as every ounce of available land is taken up, and in this hurry-up life we live, there's no time to hang them up, take them down, bring them in, and rehang them up. I would tho if I could!

Answer 9

Why don't people use clotheslines?

1. no space

2. smog and smoke from passing cars/urban centers make the clothes smell like exhaust, even after washing with TIDE with mountain freshesness-whatever scent

3.After being out in the sun, your clothes will become stiff as cardboard. (blame it on wool/rayon).  Nice stiff socks & undies too! You need that DOWNEY softness that you can only get from a dryer.

4. Clothes are often wrinked and combined with the stiffness, it really reduces the longiveity of your wardrobe.

5. The sun fade colors faster then multiple washing (especially black)

6. dust and pollen get into your clothes

7. the neighbours think you are poor, plus they know what you are wearing, because its all on display.

8. the neighbours expecially that weird guy that doesn't talk a lot is always outside hoping to catch a glimpse of your panties/unmentionables on the line. May he'll even steal it and sniff it too!.

9. stong winds may blow clothes off the line, bad if they fall on the dirty ground below, worse if they end up over in that weird guy's yard.

10. DRY CLEAN ONLY