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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another Brit here. Yes, we all had washers, dryers, dishwashers and my house even had garbage disposal - though it is called waste disposal. It’s England, not Middle Earth.[/quote]

Brit here, we had a dryer but did you use it! My sister just bought a million dollar house in London, but still hangs the washing out in the garden! No American would ever do that, but no one thinks anything of it, it's considered normal and folks like fresh laundry from a breeze! [/quote]

Such an interesting cultural difference.  [b]Here in the States, I think many people iwould consider hanging laundry outside a very low class and unsightly thing.  I would be surprised to see it anywhere other than perhaps a rural farm.  My grandparents (frugal Depression era people) were the only people I've ever known in my life who dried clothes outside by choice.[/b]  When they built their house, they intentionally designed their home with a detached garage to create a central courtyard where they could hang laundry because visible laundry was prohibited by the HOA.  Never before or never since have I known anyone who hangs their laundry outside by choice in the States.  They had a dryer in their laundry room but only used it when it was raining outside. [/quote]

I grew up in the midwest.  The idea that laundry hanging out side is low class/unsightly is an example of classism.  Growing up, everyone I knew frequently line dried their clothes/sheets (nothing better than line dried sheets).  Even when I lived in Arlington in the 90s, every house I lived in had a clothes line in the backyard.  Certainly, many of those clothes lines first went up when dryers weren't common but it's also a recognition that it costs money to run dyers, the sun can do it for free and thriftiness is a midwestern value.  I have a clothes line (retractable) in my back yard as well as a line and rack in my basement.  It's used nearly every day.

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