For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 21, 2022

In the original publication , the final panel made a reference to Oprah.

I still dry on the line when weather allows. Electric dryers are not cheap to run.

No, that’s only dirty laundry. Different thing.

My mother balked at getting a dryer for a long time, preferring to line-dry outside. When I came to be of age, she made me line-dry too. I hated those clothespins. Honestly, that’s what dryers were invented for – faster and no clothespins. Not only that, line-dried clothes were stiff. When mom got older, I went ahead and bought a dryer. She was mortified. Eventually she had to use it as line-drying became a difficult and prolonged chore. Funny enough she exclaimed the dryer made clothes softer.

Crisp, breezy Spring day here in Vegas too. ( for a change)

The most recent house (rural-suburban) has a dryer. All previous ones had a clothesline.

I remember the laundry freezing on the clothesline. No pampers “invented” yet.

The smell of fresh clean sheets? Huh? I would have thought that dirty, slept on sheets would be the sheets that smell?

Isn’t it still winter in Canada?

Weatherwise, not according to the calendar.

All, El has to do is come to my house on laundry day. I still hang clothes out to dry on lines out back. And she’s right, windy days are the best.

Wouldn’t a king/queen size sheet take the entire cloths line?

Lynn’s Comments:

We didn’t have a clothes drier when I was a kid. Everyone put their laundry outside on clotheslines. Apparently, the neighbours really did look at your laundry and made judgments because my mom always put the best sheets and towels on the top line where they could be seen. Everything else was hidden or hung in the basement.

Oh, they got ‘Jerry Springer’ and now, ‘The Steve Wilkos Show’ up in Vancouver ???

Many newer neighborhoods have covenants that forbid clotheslines.

Now if you did it your HOA would complain

I don’t miss the days of outside laundry and carrying in a few bees that were still clinging to the sheets and clothes. Wasp riders were the worst.

Dryers are very hard on clothes. I’d be willing to bet the time in the dryer puts more wear on the clothes than they got by you having them on.

Happy vernal equinox, first day of spring.

Yup I remember those days, when a kid my mom had a clothes line outside, during winter a line went in the living room as we had no dryer. Stickers and all, then when I married our first mobile home we place a smaller line outside, and we had a dryer inside, next house there was a clothes line outside I hang clothes out. hubby bought his mom’s house not as much, then moved house we have now no clothes line.

We still hang all our laundry on lines – as do most people in our neighborhood. The 3-floor covered terrace is where the laundry is located in our house. There is nothing better than air-dried clothes. Even if it’s not sunny, there’s always a nice breeze for drying sheets and garments.

When I lived in Arizona, I’d put my shirts on hangers, stick ’em out on the line, and within 5 minutes they were completely dry.

I still hang my t-shirts out to dry. I like how they’re stiff and they smell great. These are the kind you get with sayings on them or just the regular colorful t-shirts.

I remember when the clothes would be out hanging to dry and it would start to rain. My mother would make us all run out and bring in the clothes.