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Having lived places where hanging clothes outside is the norm... If you don't have a stay at home spouse then it can be problematic. You have to put them out d
by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Having lived places where hanging clothes outside is the norm...
If you don't have a stay at home spouse then it can be problematic. You have to put them out during the day, which means you'll be at work. If there's a change in weather, then there's no one at home to bring in the clothes. So you come home from work and your clothes are still wet.
If you live someplace where it rains frequently (even if they are just light drizzles) then it can be hard to get clothes dry on any kind of predictable basis.
Which means that people end up setting up clothes drying racks inside of their house, in a living room or bedroom.
In Asia, it is very common to have a wife, mother, or mother-in-law at home during the day which solves all these problems. Got a sudden two hours of sun? Put out the clothes to dry.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoNot only that, if you leave your clothes out in here in Tasmania during summer the sun will well and truly fuck them.
- Rapzid 8y agoLived in Auckland for a bit. Still remember the time I had an international trip coming up and spent 4 days trying to get my clothes dry during a non-stop rainy spell. Had to resort to a dehumidifier and space heater in the middle of the clothes horse. No thanks; ain't got time for that. Energy production needs to move away from fossil fuels anyway, if anything me using more energy just makes that more economical...
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoHow about weekends though?
- veidr 8y agoIn Japan, the clothes hanging conditions are part of the morning weather report. They show different t-shirt icons on the map, X for don’t hang, bulls eye for hang it, triangle for “not such a good day to line dry”. (I myself, though, sure as fuck have a dryer machine, although it’s an anemic little 100V electric job, not a gas-fired behemoth like I’d have back home in California...)