Question of the week
Should neighborhood associations be prohibited from banning clotheslines?
If you haven't read it, please check out the piece by community columnist Holly Stevens about clotheslines and the right to dry. Interest in this issue is growing. Even The Wall Street Journal did a story on it.
It would be interesting to hear from someone who thinks associations should ban clotheslines. Apparently, this idea still has traction.
It's hard for me to comprehend anyone disliking clotheslines. Everyone dried clothes outdoors where I grew up. Each house had a hole at the end of its garage area that had been designed to hold clothespoles.
I continued hanging clothes as an adult until we had to cut down the tree where I had attached one part of the clothesline. My husband wanted me to give away the clothespins and bag because we aren't using them, but I kept them. I know I will get back to "hanging out" one day...
Elma Sabo
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I live in a neighborhood where the association bans clotheslines. I'd like it to stay that way. It's a few days before Thanksgiving and you can drive through the neighborhood and see houses where Halloween decorations are still up. People seem to have a difficult time taking their trash cans back into the yard after trash day. I can only imagine how long we'd have to see someone's laundry hanging on a clothesline before it was brought in.
When I grew up my mother always hung clothes out on the clothesline. I loved it. However, that was a different time. If you want to have a clothesline, don't move into a neighborhood where they're banned.
Posted on November 18, 2007 3:30 PM
I live in a neighborhood where the association bans clotheslines. I'd like it to stay that way. It's a few days before Thanksgiving and you can drive through the neighborhood and see houses where Halloween decorations are still up. People seem to have a difficult time taking their trash cans back into the yard after trash day. I can only imagine how long we'd have to see someone's laundry hanging on a clothesline before it was brought in.
When I grew up my mother always hung clothes out on the clothesline. I loved it. However, that was a different time. If you want to have a clothesline, don't move into a neighborhood where they're banned.
Posted on November 18, 2007 3:30 PM