My wife and I were discussing SHTF scenarios the other day, and that question came up. I told her that I still know how to use a washboard and clothesline, but I was stumped about the winter angle, because I grew up in warm country.
How the heck did you dry clothes in the wintertime?
“How the heck did you dry clothes in the wintertime”?
I don’t remember but the wind did a lot and they’d put them out when it was sunny, I suppose. I remember my Levi’s being as stiff as a board.
I would imagine in the wintertime, if it didn’t rain, the water would eventually evaporate above freezing, or sublimate below freezing.
I know that on my patio and sidewalk, after I shovel away the snow, there’s still some left that over the next few days, even when the weather is cloudy and below freezing, eventually disappears.
“How the heck did you dry clothes in the wintertime?”
Clotheslines in the basement———or even retractable ones in the kitchen-——that’s how I grew up.
I hung sheets outside until the late 90s-——loved the smell.
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A house in the northern climes will absolutely suck the water out of wet clothes in winter.