Seven Neat Hanging Washing Tips
If you have a big family or a bedwetter then these pictures will probably make you either laugh or cry, depending on your mood.
 How Romantic It Appears! |
 Thats A Full Load of Washing! |
 New Look Diapers |
They don’t make things like they used to! Although these clothes lines could easily enough be built by any handy man if you have a garden patch. Then again they don’t make that many handy men either these days!
But if like many people, you live in a flat or apartment then this may be what you have to do to get your washing dry. It’s a laugh a minute!
 Hanging Washing Between Buildings |
 Hanging Washing On A Window Line |
 Hanging Washing On A Pull Out Line |
People with a dryer don’t know what some people go through!
You need to be creative with how you hang your washing. Especially if you live with other people who also want to hang out washing on the same line.
So daft though it may seem this post is giving out seven useful hanging washing tips to people with nowhere to hang it, too little space to fit it on the line and no clothes dryer. You won’t find these hanging washing tips anywhere else ( well maybe you will, I have not looked) because I learned these tips the hard way from the school of experience.
I lived in a block of 8 flats with one spinning clothes line between us, like the one on the right but free standing, (no dryer) and two other mothers who had cloth nappies to hang each day. When we met in the lobby the first question we asked each other was “Are you washing today?”. We had to find a way so that we could all hang our washing out on the same day if need be.
The Seven Hanging Washing Tips
1. If you have two parallel lines, which is usual, peg each end of one item so that one end is on one line and one end on the other. Then start the next item one inch along from these. This means your item will use around an eighth of the space that pegging one item will take up if you fold it over the line itself and peg it along the line, as is normal.
2. To save even more space (and conserve pegs) do it in a zigzag. Peg two item ends together on one line with one peg. On the other line, peg the other end of one of these two items to a new item and an inch away. Start a second new item here so that the washing zig-zags between the two lines. This is awesome for cloth nappies and shirts. Pants also dry faster this way, with one leg on one line and the other on the other which opens the waist area up.
3. For quick drying items double up, two items or even three to a peg.
4. Put the smalls, such as socks and underpants on an airer on a balcony if you have one, in a bathroom or laundry or in front of the fire, if not.
5. Make use of sunny rooms and coat hangers for fast drying shirts. Saves on ironing often as well, as they seem to look pretty good the way they are if you straighten them out on the coat hanger when wet.
6. A coat hanger and pegs is a mini clothes line for whatever other small items you might want to peg to it. Hang over the top of doors if you have no rail you can use.
7. A sunny patch on the carpet can be utilized for drying jumpers if you lay a towel down under them first to keep them clean.
 Teddys are best hung by their ears |
 A line at child height helps |
 Check the dryer before you start it! |
Hanging washing is a part of daily life and it is not a punishment for your bedwetting child to be asked to help you hang, dry, (play) iron, fold or do anything else that helps you get things done. It’s good honest work for them, gets them outside and makes them feel useful.
So don’t leave them sitting on the couch in front of the TV. Put them to work. They helped make the mess, they can help clean it up. When they are old enough, make them do their own. You’ve got enough on your plate as it is.