Newspaper Clippings: Hang your clothes outside all winter, I say

And if anybody complains, fire off a frozen puck in their direction.

That’s my advice, at any rate, to those people across America who are facing a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice of hanging laundry on clotheslines.

I’m not joking about the fact there are still North Americans who oppose seeing clothes on clotheslines because they find it unsightly.


(I’m not joking either about the frozen pucks. Let ‘em rip).

One fellow in Pennsylvania “said he was fined $100 by the (housing) association for putting up a clothesline in a common area.”

There are many benefits related to clotheslines as long as you remember to duck on your way to the garden shed.

Fresh air, exercise, hydro savings (not as much as Carin suggests in the article, in my opinion, unless you’re doing tonnes of laundry), lower GHG emissions etc.

So, hang your laundry all winter if you like, and keep a bucket of pucks and an old hockey stick nearby, in case you notice someone wagging their finger.

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A frozen puck - too drastic a measure?

Is a nerf ball okay?

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