line drying?! are you crazy?

Also, I think clothes dried in the drier (and removed promptly) don't always seem to need as much IRONING.

I don't know if it's my dryer (condenser) or not, but it causes a huge amount of wrinkles.  However, the dryer I had in the US wouldn't cause wrinkles if the clothes were removed promptly.

NOTHING smells as wonderful as line dried clothes! Mmmmmm!

I love the smell of fresh clothes from the line.  I hate it in the winter when I have to use my dryer.  I much prefer to hang the clothes out.  Yes, I can be a hassle but there are benefits.  Plus your clothes don't shrink or stretch out like they do in the dryer.

I'd prefer using a dryer but I don't have the space for one.  The majority of homes here don't. 

I'd prefer using a dryer but I don't have the space for one. The majority of homes here don't.

Not this AGAIN.  The majority of people do have dryers.   Everyone I know has a dryer.  Maybe not if you live in a flat, but then I didn't have a washer or dryer when I lived in flats in the states.
Karen, if you can't live without a dryer then buy one.  Find a place for it.  They're not even that expensive.

I don't know anyone who has a dryer.  I wasn't being argumentative. 

I know.  It's just hte whole dryer thing coming up every five minutes.  Sorry.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have a dryer.

I don't think having a dryer is necessarily "lazy".  I often work 12-14 hour days.  If I hang laundry out to dry before work, its going to rain before I get home to bring it in.  When I come home at night its usually 9PM and I have to be back at work at 0700 so there is no time then.

 If I were home or worked shorter days I might line dry because it smells nice but oh well.  Funny but I would consider it easier to line dry in the USA where it doesn't rain every 5 minutes and you have more space outside lol.

 In my mind it would make more sense for people here to have dryers and people in the US to line dry.  At the end of the day, I think life is too important to waste time on laundry when appliances have been invented to make the job quicker.  That's not lazy it's efficient.

I prefer to hang my laundry out, even when living in Maine (of course I did not hang them out in the winter as the line was way across the yard and I wasn't about to wade through2 feet of snow to have my laundry freeze) and then used the tumble dryer in bad weather. I didn't have a tumble dryer when I first moved here. We soon realized that we needed one with the kids and you can't count on the weather being good here just when you need it. We hang clothes inside some, but like I said, we live in a small house and it is too hard to find the space with the kids  also.

So, we have a very small dryer...my husband built a shelf over the hot water tank in the bathroom closet. We have a long hose that we pull out to vent when in use. But mostly I try to use it only in emergencies.

I don't know if it's my dryer (condenser) or not, but it causes a huge amount of wrinkles.  However, the dryer I had in the US wouldn't cause wrinkles if the clothes were removed promptly.

Some dryers have a cooling phase at the end of the cycle, during which the heating elements are switched off but the tumble action continues and the fan blows cool air into the drum.   This rapid cooling is supposed to reduce wrinkling.

We have that Paul and clothes still come out horribly wrinkled.  It may just be my dryer.

LOL. I can't believe how often this subject comes up! It honestly sort of boggles my mind!!!

We have a combinatioin washer/dryer. I like having it 'cause I prefer to tumble dry socks, underwear and towels. But I LOVE hanging out washing. There's something I find weirdly theraputic about pinning it up and sheets, etc. smell so much nicer when they've been dried outside....

We have that Paul and clothes still come out horribly wrinkled. 

Hence "supposed to reduce wrinkling."           

I can't say I've ever really examined things that closely to notice whether it's effective or not.    (Yeah I know, typical male!  )

I don't really understand the obsession with line drying either, this day in age when there are modern conveniences everywhere, especially in a country where it rains so much! My fiance's mother owns both a dryer and a washing machine and still line dries her clothes. The dryer is never used. She spends ages hanging her clothes out only to have them rained on and have to bring them in and start all over again from scratch. (And probably the rain isn't the cleanest either.) Furthermore, the clothes come out stiff instead of soft like they do out of the dryer. And it's not just her, everyone line dries their clothes in every house around her.

I think it might secretly be an excuse for housewives to get out and chat with others. But I definitely always use the dryer... I feel like my clothes come out MUCH nicer, and it's much faster... even though washing machines and clothes dryers in the UK tend to be tiny and will actually break if you try to load too many clothes in. 

mostly it's the cost of the electiricity which keeps us line drying. To save money it just makes sense. You'd be surprised how much more wear you'll get out of your clothes b/c you're not putting them in the dryer and they smell fresher from the softner and detergent. Makes the bathroom and closet (where we dry them) smell so good. I hardly do it outside b/c of the fickle weather, but all in all, it's not that big of a deal. I don't like how stiff it all is (esp. my undies!), but that goes away once you put them on.

The tumble dryer we have dramaticlly reduces the ironing, which is good since I do not like ironing.