Pennsylvania Residents Fight for Right to Hang Laundry

foxnews ^ | November 19, 2009

[JoeProBono]

PERKASIE, Pennsylvania — Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop.

Froehlich is among the growing number of people across America fighting for the right to dry their laundry outside against a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice despite its energy-saving green appeal.

Although there are no formal laws in this southeast Pennsylvania town against drying laundry outside, a town official called Froehlich to ask her to stop drying clothes in the sun. And she received two anonymous notes from neighbors saying they did not want to see her underwear flapping about.

"They said it made the place look like trailer trash," she said, in her yard across the street from a row of neat, suburban houses. "They said they didn't want to look at my 'unmentionables.'"

Froehlich says she hangs her underwear inside. The effervescent 54-year-old is one of a growing number of Americans demanding the right to dry laundry on clotheslines despite local rules and a culture that frowns on it......

[JoeProBono]

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[RexBeach]

Hang laundry? Hey. What’s laundry ever done to them?

[Sacajaweau]

I used the umbrella type clothes pole. It was wonderful. The sun also bleaches, kills germs, saves energy and obviously, it takes “exercise” to hang, unhang etc..

[RebelTXRose]

What are all these whiners going to do when they have to wash their OWN clothes by hand when we don’t have electricity that we can afford?

They must not have helped their mothers with the laundry like many of us did. Heck, they probably don’t know what a clothes pin is FOR! - let alone knowing that the term “clothes-lined” means... LOL

[DBCJR]

There seems to be a disdain for all things “old school”, like the fresh air & sun dried clothing that my mother provided us as kids. Much of the “old school” can be brushed aside with little damage. We can provide the “fresh air” smell with synthetic sheets of fabric softener for our clothing. It is the “fundamental change” that Obama promises that causes me great concern. Seeing the clothes line as an eye sore is symptomatic of a culture that will accept this Socialist’s agenda.

[JoeProBono]

[Frenchtown Dan]

I’m sick of people who have nothing better to do than to try and control their neighbors.

For the amount of taxes I pay, I’ll be damned if anyone is going to tell me what I can or cannot do on my own property.

If I were these people in Perkasie, a very nice town by the way, I’d go to the nearest Walmart and buy the most outrageously colored clothes in gagantuan size. Then I’d string clothes lines all over the place.

[DemforBush]

I’m okay with this, as long as she isn’t airing her dirty laundry in public...

/lame attempt at humor.

[6SJ7]

Seeing the clothes line as an eye sore is symptomatic of a culture that will accept this Socialist’s agenda.

The funny thing is the same people who are so offended seeing cloths drying outdoors are probably not in the least concerned about the Planned Parenthood clinic down the road.

[JoeProBono]

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

“against a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice despite its energy-saving green appeal.”

To hell with the green appeal.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PROPERTY RIGHTS?

[JoeProBono]

[Liberty Valance]

"Froehlich is among the growing number of people across America fighting for the right to dry their laundry outside against a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice despite its energy-saving green appeal."

[JoeProBono]

[DBCJR]

That’s an eye sore & a heart sore