Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 10, 2024

Don’t worry, they won’t shoot you. That also lowers property values.

Small homes are also associated with poverty as is non-obesity.

Always the bottom line—money!!

Of course, the homeowners’ maintenance fees go sky high every year!!

When I bought this house I got a list of don’ts. No clotheslines, sheds, leantos, a list of approved trees, approved paint choices, must have tile roof. ( I live on a golf course.) The last big rain the ceiling in the guestroom came down because of damaged roof tiles. I have a bucket for all the golf balls.

“Drop the line!” That’s either police harassment or just gratuitous meanness. No way I’m dropping a line of clean, wet laundry on the ground for no reason.

HOA’s are the pits, and they aren’t’ getting any better.

Screw HOAs

Dropped lines are even worse than pick-up lines.

It also causes sudden thunderstorms….

Actually, we’re only renting, so the rules of a Home Owners Association don’t apply to us.

I once took an online audit from my electric company on energy use. Their top suggestion on how I could save on my energy bill was to cook less. That was the last time I paid attention to any of their suggestions.

I’m always fascinated by the minions—the ones who dutifully do the dirty work for the scum in charge. The people who dutifully chopped off heads for whoever was in charge during the French Revolution. The people who dutifully operated the gas chambers and the ovens in Nazi Germany. The people who dutifully pulled children out of mother’s arms on the Mexican border. And so forth. Without the minions, atrocities don’t happen. The scum in charge would never stoop to getting their own hands dirty. Here we have the minions, sitting around in their faux-cop car and their faux-cop guns acting like faux-cops on behalf of the rich people in the HOA.

Outdoor drying is associated with poverty? So what? I’m poor. When the furnace is off, the clothes are outside, especially when the temperature is more than twenty degrees (room temperature).

One thing I loved about living in Arizona was the temperatures were so hot and arid that you could quickly get your clothes dried on the line before the neighbors had a chance to call the HOA!

I remember back in the olden days when several of our country relatives had clothes drying mechanisms in the back yard that looked like huge naked umbrellas. I think of them every time I run into an HOA rule about “permanent clotheslines”.

If he were Black, he would shot by now.

Of course, if he were Black he wouldn’t have been allowed to purchase the property.

I am amazed at how some homeowners scratch and claw to preserve their property value. I guess it’s most American homeowner’s only, or major, connection to wealth. “I have an XXX thousand dollar home!” Ignoring the bank owns not just half your home’s value, but, with the interest you pay, they have three times that wealth.

And I can’t help but mention, those homeowners ignore the wealth of friendship they could have with their neighbors.

Before we buy a house, we ask if there’s an HOA. If there is, that’s not the house for us.

Clotheslines aren’t allowed, but a blaring police speaker is Ok.

There is nothing like the smell of line dried clothes.

HOA’s are stealth dictatorship by neighborhood

Do you also have to submit annual net worth reports?

And remember—-grime doesn’t pay!!

Poverty is spreading in Biden’s America.

Try not to make any sudden flaps.

Wrongheaded, with a capital W, italics, exclamation point, etc. Not to mention that clothes smell better air-dried.

I use an indoor drying frame (foldable rack) for a good bit of clothes drying.

Much better than tumbling them in the dryer, as the lint in the filter is from your gradually disintegrating clothes.

Some www sites say it is dangerous, as moist conditions can lead to mold.

I, on the other hand, like it, as dry air makes my skin itch – and I welcome an increase in humidity in the air in my house.

Our HOA had such a ban until it was pointed out that it was against our “Green Neighborhood” stand. Now you can have a clothesline if it can’t be seen from the street.When I first put it up ours, I told a friend that came to visit that we recently got a solar powered clothes dryer…. he was half way to the laundry room to look when he turned around as he got the joke.

Poetic license is cool (if it’s funny), but for the record, real cops don’t actually enforce HOA rules…

Pretty sure a lawsuit against the homeowners association would put them out of business. Just sayin’