In last week’s episode, I was hoping to start a movement around my random housekeeping activities. Since I’m a neurotic middle-class white person, I urged the NYT Magazine to devote a trend article to my decision to hang up my laundry. With binder clips. Turns out: it’s already a movement. And I totally love their logo:
I asked WordPress to make the image as large as possible, so you could all see the eagle-eyed eagle firmly grasping a clothesline full of undies. Their site actually contains this sentence: “Line-drying is patriotic.” Comrades!
The reason it’s a movement is the source of deep regret for me, however. Turns out many homeowners associations don’t permit line-drying, providing further evidence that HOAs are not only cleverly disguised agents of Satan, but unpatriotic to boot.* My regret is that my laundry hangs incognito in my basement, without the ability to piss off anyone, much less an HOA. Perhaps I should take photos of it and hang them up around my yard. . . .
*If I’m ever involved in litigation with an HOA and opposing counsel tries to admit this statement into evidence, remember: it’s called “hyperbole.” Even if it were admissible, it would only be admissible for the proposition that opposing counsel has no sense of humor.
Thought Snax 
I hope everyone also catches the tiny print “In Clotheslines We Trust.”
HOA boards are filled w/ people who have waaaayyyyyy too much time on their hands and who somehow derive great pleasure from telling other people what color they can or cannot paint their front doors.
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I just love this post & the icon. Our HOA has the same rules. We too, have found secrets to line drying.
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My condo is fortunately situated with a balcony facing the back – wooded area. No one sees it, since ‘the condo Board’ would be against clothes strewn about all willy-nilly everywhere!
That being said, I can use my outdoor furniture to ‘hang dry’ whatever I need to Dry!
Works perfect, except on a cold winter day, clothes & towels get stiff.
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