Quote Originally Posted by 32t View Post
Intersting observation. My mother on the farm still dries her clothes on the line or indoors. I grow hops on my outdoor posts and my garden is underneath where the lines would be. The hooks are still on the walls in my basement but I haven't strung them in years. Not in my neighborhood but in many with covenents it is against the rules to have a clothes line strung in your back yard unless it is in use. So you would have to use a retractable line. People think they are ugly and dangerous to someone running through your yard.

Some of it is time and people want to just push a button and then go to work or out. I won't do that because I was taught to not run the drier when you are not home because of the risk of fire.

Energy has been relatively cheap here but it is rising so that may start to influence people.

I remember watching my Grandmother washing clothes in the bath tub with a toilet plunger. When I bought the house from her I got a washing machine!
When I was a little tyke my mom used to go down to the stream and pound the clothes with rocks to get them clean. I still remember the day Julius Caesar rode by with his legions on the way to battle. What a magnificent sight it was.