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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm also a Brit.  OP I can totally empathize with you.  10 days with the in-laws is hard work no matter how much you like them and cultural quirks can play into that.  Personally, I am bamboozled by the American obsession with dryers.  My (American) husband tells me that I can't hang the clothes out to dry in the back garden because it isn't allowed.  I'm not sure whether he is having me on or not but either way it is odd.  Dryers literally eat electricity and they are TERRIBLE for the environment.  Plus they trash your clothes eventually.  Why, why, why don't americans line dry clothes?[/quote]

I suppose if you live in a subdivision, line drying clothes might be against the Home Owners Association rules. I always wonder though, when air drying your clothes in an apartment in the UK, where do you hang them? How do you make enough space to hang all of your clothes to dry? (sincere question). I live in a house, and wouldn't have enough space to dry all of my clothes (unless you have some tips up your sleeve). I don't like to hang clothes out because they always come in with bugs on them; and I also think about all the pollen and other allergens. My dh likes to tell the story of when he was a kid and put on a pair of pants that had been line dried, and was immediately stung by 3 bees in his pant leg.[/quote]

So I have dried clothes without a dryer everywhere I lived in the UK.  In my small London flat, I used to hang clothes on an airer and on the radiators.  In my house in the London suburbs, I just used to pop them on the line out in the garden.  YOu do have to be organized to ensure that you wash things and then dry before moving onto the next load but it becomes totally second nature.  Here, I sometimes string things across the bannister on the stairs in my little act of anti-dryer rebellion.  But if I had my way, I'd put up a line in the back garden and just dry them all there.  The weather here, particularly in the summer is perfect for it.  And I've never been stung by a bee in trouser leg….[/quote]

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