Comments on: A Green Solution to Drying Clothes http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/04/10/green-clothes-drying/ Your online simplicity village Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:07:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: lrose http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/04/10/green-clothes-drying/comment-page-1/#comment-634 lrose Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:29:51 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/04/10/green-clothes-drying/#comment-634 We live in Nova Scotia with damp weather much like Ireland with lots of summer fog along the ocean. Many times I partly dry clothes out doors on a line and bring them in damp. I have two of the clothes drying racks similar to the picture. One is on either side of my kitchen wood stove. There is also a rack over my bath tub that extends out and folds back like an accordian when not in use.. In the sun porch are two more free standing folding clothes dryers. Damp clothes go on the racks in the sun porch. In rainy or winter weather clothes hang over the bath tub to drip and then are moved to the racks over the stove. My washer is an old wringer washer missing the wringer. I have a hand wringer clamped to a board. The board in turn is clamped to the claw foot bath tub. All the drying racks and the wringer are 70 to 100 years old and came from my husband's grand mother and great grandmother! The wringer washer came off of Freecycle locally. So our washing is done with recycled items. For those people who don't have hand-me-down drying racks and hand wringers I think it is great Lehman's still sells them! Have a nice wash day! Linda Rose We live in Nova Scotia with damp weather much like Ireland with lots of summer fog along the ocean. Many times I partly dry clothes out doors on a line and bring them in damp.

I have two of the clothes drying racks similar to the picture. One is on either side of my kitchen wood stove. There is also a rack over my bath tub that extends out and folds back like an accordian when not in use.. In the sun porch are two more free standing folding clothes dryers.

Damp clothes go on the racks in the sun porch. In rainy or winter weather clothes hang over the bath tub to drip and then are moved to the racks over the stove.

My washer is an old wringer washer missing the wringer. I have a hand wringer clamped to a board. The board in turn is clamped to the claw foot bath tub.

All the drying racks and the wringer are 70 to 100 years old and came from my husband’s grand mother and great grandmother! The wringer washer came off of Freecycle locally. So our washing is done with recycled items.

For those people who don’t have hand-me-down drying racks and hand wringers I think it is great Lehman’s still sells them! Have a nice wash day! Linda Rose

]]> By: Diane http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/04/10/green-clothes-drying/comment-page-1/#comment-433 Diane Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:55:27 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/04/10/green-clothes-drying/#comment-433 We have the exact same 8-arm dryer in our laundry "cubby". As I knit wool and wool blend items for my family, I needed something that I could use to dry smaller items. I needed something that could dry several items at once, not take up a lot of room, and could be high enough that our Lab wouldn't be able to reach to obtain a "sneaky snack". The 8-arm is perfect. I've found it works great for smaller items and so many other things - wet outer wear, soggy mittens, the dog's wipe down towel, to dry out wash rags, to hold hanks of yarn to roll into balls, etc. It's one of many fabulously useful and well-priced items I've gotten at Lehman's. We have the exact same 8-arm dryer in our laundry “cubby”. As I knit wool and wool blend items for my family, I needed something that I could use to dry smaller items. I needed something that could dry several items at once, not take up a lot of room, and could be high enough that our Lab wouldn’t be able to reach to obtain a “sneaky snack”. The 8-arm is perfect. I’ve found it works great for smaller items and so many other things – wet outer wear, soggy mittens, the dog’s wipe down towel, to dry out wash rags, to hold hanks of yarn to roll into balls, etc. It’s one of many fabulously useful and well-priced items I’ve gotten at Lehman’s.

]]>