Let your photo(s) tell your story. The fresh air smell and sound of sheets flapping in the breeze on a summer day.
Vintage clothes dryer
Not everything airborne is bad….
#Vintage Clothes Dryer – Wordless Wednesday
Let your photo(s) tell your story. The fresh air smell and sound of sheets flapping in the breeze on a summer day.
Vintage clothes dryer
Not everything airborne is bad….
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My only kind of clothes dryer – and everything smells deliciously sun-filled afterwards!
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Yes, that’s it exactly!
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Ah what a great site Joni. Nothing like getting into clean air dried sheets at the end of a day.
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Thank you! I wish they could bottle that smell as there’s no scent comparable!
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or ‘sight’ even.
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I love air-dried. From April until November, laundry is scheduled for nice days.
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But I recall my mother removing the towels from the clothesline: they were rigid and coarse and I couldn’t bear having them touch my skin!
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My mother says before she had a dryer she put the clothes out all year round, or hung them up in the unheated basement, and they would be stiff! The first dryers weren’t that safe and she also recalls a dryer fire once. My neighbour does that too – puts thing out in the winter and I don’t know how she can stand it……to save on hydro a bit I guess. Wouldn’t be worth it to me.
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Beautiful photos. Nothing like the breeze as it dries the sheets. Such a throwback to a different time.
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I was working on a blog called Summer Breeze, so I guess it reminded me that would make a good Wordless Wednesday.
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Even though we had a dryer growing up, I still remember my mom using a clothes line in our backyard 🙂
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Seems everyone has memories from childhood. I sometimes put cotton items out to hang if I don’t want them to shrink and in this weather they’re dry in an hour!
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I love ideas like this, taking us back to the good old days…before everyone was obsessed with their devices 😒
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Very clever Joni – my mom hung out her laundry for years. First it was using the pullies which were rigged up to the two Oak trees in the backyard. Then they got carpenter ants and two poles had to go up instead. In those days my mom was feeling much better and she hung that laundry up every time but the dead of Winter – sometimes she’d bring the sheets in frozen the way they happened blew in the breeze. I am not so diligent – very pretty sheets.
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My mom used to hang everything out in the 50’s before she got a dryer and they would always be stiff in the winter. The sheets are old but still nice – I’m partial to blue.
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And our moms never thought anything of it – more work, an added step. My mom never had a washer/dryer until 1985 – before she had a wringer washer and hung everything outside or in the basement. Blue is good – some of my sheets are decades old, but they are flat sheets and pull out constantly – very annoying. I got one fitted sheet set and it also came off when the mattress shifted.
Maybe it’s me.
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We have too many trees here to hang, plus the dust from our dirt road would just make all the clean stuff filthy again. But I do love the concept. Certainly remember my mom drying clothes outside when I was growing up. Smelled nice, but not soft, at least at first.
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Everyone seems to remember their mothers hanging laundry out. My mother says she didn’t have a dryer until the 50’s and then when she got one, she had a dryer fire! I hang my sheets out a few times each summer, but try to avoid the days my neighbours are burning wood!
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In Italy, my grandmother dried everything outside — the fresh smell is wonderful!! Thanks for a nice memory.
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Thank you for reading! It seems to have invoked memories in many!
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I must have one of the few mothers who did not hang clothes outside. My small town relatives all had big steel poles cemented into the ground for clotheslines. I wonder how many millennials even know what a clothespin looks like.
We have way too many trees to dry outside but my Mrs gives things a short run in the dryer then puts them on hangars and hangs them on racks we have in the basement to finish. Yes, our dehumidifier runs a lot.
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Ah, you had a deprived childhood void of the the smell of sun-drenched sheets! True re the clothespins….I’ll have to take a poll.
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And I see that you have the modern kind with the springs. Can you still even get the old fashioned wooden ones with the slit up the middle?
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I haven’t seen them in years, but then I buy my clothespins at the dollar store. I think people used to make little dolls out of them or used them in crafts so maybe they are still around?
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