another thing is that i'm looking at what i'm hanging and i'm thinking "was this REALLY dirty?" i think using a clothesline again will remind me that not all clothes are as dirty as we think they are. not that we wear and wash. we've never done that. i know if you look through our pictures you'll see how we tend to wear the same things for days. which is why for a family of 5 we usually only have 3-4 loads a week. i know people who do that much every other day. but i would like to look more closely at what we are washing that could most likely still be worn. i think of the things hanging right now that actually needed washing there's underwear and scotty's work pants. maybe a few t-shirts that had been worn until i said "please change your shirt!" (that's usually for silas).
i also wonder how having clothes out will effect my hoping for rain...
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hooray! I just think dryers are so wasteful . . . and, in the exact ways that you relate here, unmindful.
i think there are a lot of things like that. once you start making changes you can see more clearly HOW to be mindful. where before you couldn't.
it rained the very first day i put up clothes. sheesh. got home just in time to pull it all down!! they were mostly dry!
There's a cincher thingy you can get from Lehman's (or probably somewhere else too) that tightens the line as needed. Just in case it sags too much.
for the "cincher thingy" -- go to a feed store (like Tractor Supply or Mize) and look in the fencing section for "tensioners" for electric or high tensile fences. They'll work. They come in a version that can be tightened with a socket wrench handle. I can just about guarantee it will be cheaper than anything from Lehman's! They always want two times at least what anything really costs from anywhere else -- IF you can find it anywhere else. We have two of their hoes that are fantastic though and worth even Lehman's price.
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