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We have a lot of clothes that have to be line dried, so we always have a small rack set up in our bedroom, but we definitely put everything else in the dryer.
It's usually raining around here, so even if we didn't live in an apartment line drying outside would be impractical.
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I don't have room for a clothes line in my backyard so I use the dryer every time. If we ever have a larger backyard I'd like a line. I'd only use it in the summer most likely.
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I'm in New Zealand and we don't own a dryer so everything is dried outside or under our verandah. I love the smell of line-dried laundry and there's something strangely satisfying about clothes getting dry in the sun!
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Growing up we used a clothes line to dry our clothes during nice weather (anytime it wasn't raining). I enjoyed helping my mom hang things up. Now we have two posts in our back yard but the clothesline is broken and they are underneath a nectarine tree which is a mess in the summer. I don't know if it would work to use it. Maybe I'll have to try it out this summer...
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I usually take out the "big" stuff to line-dry, like pants, sweaters, sweatshirts, dresses, (also bras) but I don't like the feel of a socks or underwear that I have been line dried so those go in the dryer, every time. But I really only do it on sunny days. I live on the coast in California and it's not always sunny or warm, so I don't want to have my clothes outside for days on end.
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I voted every single time. Although technically I don't dry my nice underwear and instead hang them up in the shower to dry.
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All the time.
But we didn't have one growing up b/c my mom doesn't like dryers! I've tried to convince many times how great they are. She hangs everything in the basement and outside when it's nice out. I feel towels and things get really stiff that way, but the fresh air is nice. -
The culture I grew up in dry clothes on racks too! But I use the dryer for every load... I ain't got no time to air/line dry lol!
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Once the weather is above 75 and it's sunny, we try to dry stuff on our collapsible rack on our small condo balcony. Usually may through September.
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Every time. I had a clothes line when I lived in Italy and I used it once and birds crapped all over my clothes. My roommate and I jerry-rigged a clothes line because we didn't have a dryer. It was ridiculous.
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I'm moving to a house with a clothes line and thought it might be neat to use it when the weather was nice, but I hadn't thought about pollen
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I voted never because we don't have one. We do have a hills hoist like you mentioned! However, I'm considering getting a dryer before baby arrives just to make the constant washing a little easier. It rains all winter in south australia so it can get annoying trying to dry things inside.
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Unless the dryer calls for it to air dried, in the dryer it goes!
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We hang dry items that have to be (most of my work shirts, delicates, etc), but use a drier for everything else. I grew up in CA, and we never dry things outside!
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@Ree723: you're definitely right in that Australians have a thing about line drying their clothes
I have a retractable 9m x 6 lines under my deck and I dry things out there every wash. If its snappy cold outside I put them on a clothes horse and sit them on top of the ducted heating vent. I will always 100% never fail to stick my towels in the dryer - I HATE scratchy towels!!
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I dry a few delicate or pill-prone items along with things I'm concerned will shrink indoors. But definitely all sheets, towels, underthings except bras, etc. get dried in the dryer. MIL rarely uses her dryer so I've had to convince DH that nice dryers used properly donT ruin clothes!
Eta: I HATE crunchy clothes, which is what I feel line drying often does.
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I air dry all of the kids clothes, my jeans, and anything that I don't want wear on. Everything else goes in the dryer everytime, I do throw the air dried stuff in the dryer for ten minutes to remove the stiffness.
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Everything we wash goes in the dryer (unless care instructions indicated otherwise).
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@lamariniere: @looch: You're right, the hills hoist does work very well for drying the clothes, and takes up significantly less room than a line would, I just find it a pain to put up and down...and the spiderwebs that seem to show up on them overnight also creep me out... Other than that though, I have to admit they work well! Our clothes were dry yesterday in an hour, despite the overcast skies!
In regards to some other responses, I'm curious about those who cited allergies as a reason not to line dry. I have terrible seasonal allergies, but despite our line being under our massive oak tree, and out amongst the rest of the plants and flowers we have in our garden, I've never had a problem with the clothes exacerbating my allergies. Is drying something that is recommended to minimise the allergens exposure?
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I mostly just dry sheets and towels in the dryer. I can't hang up the sheets easily, or else I'd line dry them, too. I don't even use a clothesline. I mostly put the clothes right on the hangers and hang them up on the shower curtain rod. A few go on a drying rack. They are dry by the end of the day (at the latest, usually by lunch) and then I put them straight into the closet. I'd like to be able to take them outside, but our weather can be tricky.
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I try to line dry in the summer but our set up is annoying so it's a lot of work to do it. Year round I dry towels, jeans, sweaters, diapers, etc on a drying rack inside. So I still run the dryer a lot but I can often combine two loads into one.
I don't know about allergies but I never dried baby clothes on the line because I was nervous about things irritating the skin.
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@Ree723: I have a cover for mine, works perfectly!
I have a retractable 9m x 6 lines under my deck and I dry things out there every wash. If its snappy cold outside I put them on a clothes horse and sit them on top of the ducted heating vent. I will always 100% never fail to stick my towels in the dryer - I HATE scratchy towels!!
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