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Hang your washing out!

Author: admin | Posted: Wednesday 23rd September '09

This month’s cause is Project Laundry List…

Many of you will find it hard to believe, but in places around the world – especially the United States, Tashkent and Uzbekistan apparently, people are evicted, fined, and generally hassled for hanging out their clothes on a clothesline.

In an era where personal finances, energy security, and climate change are on the top of most people’s minds, Project Laundry List, based in the United States, works to make air-drying and washing laundry in cold-water acceptable and desirable as simple and effective ways to save energy.

Project Laundry List has recently joined with Permacouture Institute to launch The New Again Coalition. The aim is to bring the clothesline, time-tested ways of doing laundry, natural dyes and some traditional fabrics and fashions back into vogue or ‘New Again’. They want to start a trend of patching clothes and upcycling. They even want to make wrinkles cool again.

Thanks to Alexander Lee of Project Laundry for writing this piece.We at MIAMI wish him the best in his battle to get Americans to switch their driers off and start to appreciate the smell of laundry dried in the open air.

>> To get involved and and find out more visit www.NewAgainCoalition.org

You can also find Project Laundry List on Facebook.

Pegging it out!

Pegs aint what they used to be. Have you seen these gorgeous soft-grip pegs from Lakeland? Designed to really care for your fabrics while letting the wind rip through them on that line of yours. Go and look and buy now

If you don’t have a washing line take a look at these

For a wide range of eco-friendly washing lines and rotary driers, including ones you can use in the rain, we recommend Ecowashinglines. Just click on the picture link below.

There are 9 comments

Posted by Sally-Page Stuck (unregistered) on September 24, 2009 at 4:25pm
Hey! That's my laundry o the line! Cool. My towels are famous.
Posted by Sally-Page Stuck (unregistered) on September 29, 2009 at 12:50am
Since my towels have become so famous, I thoughtit only fitting to write my own article about them, Make It and Mend It, and Project Laundry List. Enjoy! http://auntsallygoodfood.blogspot.com/
Posted by Anne of Hove (unregistered) on September 29, 2009 at 2:09pm
Have just returned from camping in France. Stayed at environmental friendly camp site. Hand washed clothes in cold water with soap bar (100% vegetable - £1.50 for about 6 month of washing !) - Laundry has never been so clean - all manner of stains removed including blood and chilli oil.
Posted by Caroline (unregistered) on September 30, 2009 at 11:14am
@Anne of Hove where did you get your soap bar from?
Posted by Anne Caborn on October 1, 2009 at 10:46am
I this the sort of thing Anne? http://www.naturalcollection.com/products/okt/oliva-olive-oil-soap---125g/ Good old olive oil soap with none of the fancy stuff in is a great all round cleaner. You can even use it to loosen tight shoes buy rubbing it inside the shoe on the heel section.
Posted by Anne Caborn on October 1, 2009 at 10:48am
Way to go Sally!
Posted by Clare Flynn on October 2, 2009 at 10:10pm
Sorry Anne - but you can't beat good old Fairy household Soap if you want an old fashioned hard bar soap. Mild and green and going strong since the start of the last century
Posted by Zana Hart (unregistered) on October 4, 2009 at 4:47pm
I love the stretches I get from hanging out my washing. Have been doing it for several years now... we even added a roofed patio to our back yard so we can do it when it's rainy. BTW, found you from the Problogger 31 day challenge, reading the elevator pitches to design mine. Yours was the closest to where I'm going...
Posted by Mrs. Accountability (unregistered) on October 14, 2009 at 2:45pm
I lived in a mobile home park that prohibited us from hanging our clothes on a line in our own back yard. However, they did provide community clotheslines near the park's laundromat. I used to wash my clothes in my own washing machine, then lug the basket full of wet clothing about 200 feet. That is when I learned THE BEST clothes baskets are actually empty banana boxes!! The bottom stacked inside the lid made a very sturdy clothes basket and they lasted forever, whereas the plastic clothes baskets kept cracking and eventually broke. Unfortunately, now I live in a rural area that is very dusty and my asthma can't handle all the dust on my clothing when I hang my clothes out. :-(