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At 02:41 PM 11/19/2006, you wrote:
> Okay, will the non-folders please speak up?
>
> Marie
> _______________________________________________

Just skip the basket, Marie:  no reason not to get dressed right out of the 
dryer.....

I don't use a dryer here, but just this past summer I 'caught' my 37-year 
old visiting son taking clothes off the line and putting them on, having 
hosed off down by the well.  Fortunately the clothesline can't be seen from 
the road.

Living by myself, I fold as I take off the line into a basket which lives 
on a shelf in the bathroom, which is where I normally dress.  Just slide 
full basket in, it's there.

Back when I had a huge houseful of kids and a dryer, all were accustomed to 
undressing/dressing in the bathroom.  There was a door (selfclosing for 
fire safety' we used an old pet door) about 3 feet up on the wall between 
bathroom and laundry.  Dirty clothes went thru and dropped right into dirty 
clothes bin.  They were removed and washed, dried, folded, and put right 
back into shelves built into same wall between bath and laundry (washer and 
drier located between bin and shelves).  Doors on both sides of wall let us 
take clean clothes out on the bath side.  Each person had a shelf; bus box 
'bins' labeled on both ends kept each shelf tidied up and made it easy to 
see who was out of what and everything was pretty easy to keep track 
of:  all unworn clothes in the house were easily available.  Nothing had to 
travel more than 6 feet to be taken off, laundered, folded, or put 
on.  Linens, rags, and bandages shared the clothes 'closet' (not sure why 
we called it a closet?).  Handy enough.

If I ever build another house (that one burned) I'd make it the same way.

Susan Jane, in Maine, but leaving soon.......