Debate Follows Bills to Remove Clotheslines Bans [Global Warming Loonies......]

New York Times ^

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

LOL It’s a turf battle on who’s right it is to dictate.

[Frogtacos]

I love hanging my laundry out to dry. Only exceptions are the underwear, towels, and socks. Nothing like climbing into freshly line dried sheets.

[Sacajaweau]

I gave up ironing for the big TV. I’m in pajamas a lot of the time.

[Anima Mundi]

Debating about these sorts of things is a luxury not remotely considered in many parts of the world where people are merely trying to survive. Here we can be troubled by what we see when we look out a certain window of our lovely home.

[chris_bdba]

I can see how they are a danger in small areas like trailor courts but I’ve always had a clothesline in my yard and always will. They can outlaw them all they want they will have to catch me. If I have to install a retractable one so be it.

[TornadoAlley3]

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[Dr. Scarpetta]

Back in the day, mostly everyone hung clothes out to dry. Now that a lot of women aren’t home during the day, you don’t see much of it anymore.

Plus many developments have rules against it. Towels dry like cardboard though...

This is a supposedly-free country, and if you want to hang out clothes to dry, you should be able to.

[LostInBayport]

Anyone who moves to one of these planned communities is a fool anyway. They willingly sign their lives away, and then they complain that the planning committee “won’t let them fly a flag”, or “won’t let them plant roses”, or any number of other things that they themselves agreed in contract not to do. I have NO compassion for their plight.

So true. Caveat emptor. Some of the worst are condominiums, which have rules on everything from what you can put in your windows to types of pets, and they are run by boards made up of other unit owners wannabe tyrants who can create new rules to single out people they don't like. Plus, they have the right to enter your unit for "good reasons". I know people that live in condos and these things do happen...

The instructor at the gun course I took compared living in a condo to socialism and he's right. Better to live in a shack on ground you own than at the mercy of liberal dictators.

[rockrr]

Yep, even “trailer parks”.

My folks live in a seniors mobile home park that has more GD rules than many upscale subdivision HOA’s. Clotheslines? Out of the question!

They have snoops going around looking for things to be offended about and are constantly handing out complaints (offered with the threat of eviction) for things like uncovered patio furniture and unraked leaves.

I’m working to get them out of there but it is taking time due to Obamination and his wonderful effect on the economy...

[calex59]

Opponents say the laws lifting bans erode local property rights and undermine the autonomy of private communities.

Look how backwards their thinking is. Banning people from hanging out clothes is, to them, a property right. Lifting the ban, to them, violates property rights.

Somehow they can't see that banning people from using their property the way they want to is a violation of property rights. Why Americans have put up with this sh** for all these years I have no clue.

[goat granny]

In my younger days, just about every woman washed on Monday and hung clothes out to dry. Clothes coming from a dryer never smell as good....Too many busy bodies with their nose in other peoples business........Bet all those that complain are liberal democrats....that never hung clothes out to dry in their lives....Sheets are the best when dried outside on a clothes line...softer than from a dryer and no wrinkles...

Some people make me sick with their petty complaints. Sniffing with their nose in the air going Harrumph...

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[JavaJumpy]

“I gave up ironing for the big TV. I’m in pajamas a lot of the time.”

LOL - I couldn’t decide if this sounded like Maxine or Erma Bombeck!

[JavaJumpy]

“Now, if I can just get someone to trade the lamp for a Samsung HL-S5679W 56” flat screen TV, I can say that I have “gone green” and saved energy!”

LOL, thanks for the link.