Subject: Re: [Homestead] Update on homesteady things
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:27:11 -0500
At 02:41 PM 11/19/2006, you wrote:
Okay, will the non-folders please speak up?
Marie
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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.......
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