January 28, 2008 – A Crime in Some Neighborhoods
Here’s a picture of a crime scene in some neighborhoods…
OK, maybe crime is too strong a word, it’s against the rules in many suburban and urban neighborhoods. There’s even a group promoting the long-standing practice of drying clothes on a line and have started the “right to dry” and “National Hanging Out Day” (April 19) campaigns. There’s even a powerpoint presentation entitled “Laundry, An inconvenient chore?” Here’s some of their reasons to dry clothes outside
- Save money
- Conserve energy and the environment.
- Clothes and sheets smell better
- Clothes last longer. Where do you think lint comes from?
- It is physical activitywhich you can do in or outside
- Clothes dryer fires account for about 15,600 structure fires, 15 deaths, and 400 injuries annually. The yearly national fire loss for clothes dryer fires in structures is estimated at $99 million.
It’s worth a trip over to the site to poke around.
one year ago…
4 Responses to “January 28, 2008 – A Crime in Some Neighborhoods”
Robin says:
January 30, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Yep, where we live now, you are not allowed to have a clothesline, hand towels or sheets on your back deck, have upholstered furniture outside, and you are required to mow your lawn every 6 days (if it needs it or not). You will be written up and fined if you break any of those or of the other 9 million rules. I hate it. Oh, and you are not allowed to have solar panels either, they consider them an eyesore.
Robin says:
January 31, 2008 at 9:25 am
Isn’t it both bizarre and sad that hanging laundry can be a crime. I think I’d be obnoxious and hang all of our underwear at the front of the line.
George Handy says:
January 31, 2008 at 5:36 pm
I’ll bet you could hold that laundry out horizontally and it wouldn’t bend!! Brrr!!
gj says:
February 1, 2008 at 6:52 am
- humidify the house in the winter time. Anyone remember the “convenient” clothes drying rack people used before dryers? This needs a comeback. gj