Nov

21

back to basics




I remember being young, married a little over a year, with a baby.  It was a sweet time, but because I wanted to stay home with my precious, we had to be on a tight budget.  Ramen and hamburger helper without the hamburger.  That tight.  But it was sweet.

We rented a tiny house that my inlaws owned.  We got a great deal on rent, but it was right next door to my inlaws.  Which was a bit annoying the first year we were married, but a huge bonus once that grandbaby came.  Cheap rent and an always willing babysitter!

As part of our tightwad lifestyle, we hung our clothes outside to dry.  It was an older house with a huge clothesline, and I loved it.  We’ve moved many times since then,  but I’ve never had another clothesline.  I’ve always wanted one.

There is a reason I’m fondly remembering this.  Guess who’s dryer broke??

Yep, right after doing massive amounts of laundry when my guys got back from their camping weekend, my dryer quit spinning.  Good news, the motor is working, but the not spinning is a problem.  Should be easy to fix, unless you’re my husband, who will spend the weekend googling dryer parts and refusing to look in the instruction manual.  Instructions, who needs those.

So for the past week I’ve been hanging our laundry out to dry again.  No clothesline, but the kids swingset seems to work pretty well.  I know, I could take it to a laudromat.  But I work from home, which means I normally don’t leave my home, and I hate to change my fine tuned routine. 

My husband is cussing at working on the dryer now, he’ll probably be in the exact same place Sunday night.  I’ll give him credit for trying.  Just not right now, he doesn’t look like he’s in the mood to talk.

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        Katherine owlfan on November 22nd, 2008 10:18 pm

        Our dryer broke last year and it was 2 months before I got around to replacing it. The socks and towels were a bit stiff, but they all dried just fine. I have a drier again now, but I usually just fluff the clothes then hang them out. No actual clothesline, but the spokes on the patio umbrella work well too! And this time of year, I hang them on the shower rod and on a clothes horse in front of the heating vents – they dry quickly and add some needed humidity to the house.

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