The fight against clothes line bans

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  1. powerof0

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11417677

    In the US, many homeowner associations and landlords forbid homeowners from drying their laundry outside because it's "unsightly and lowers property prices."

    However, proponents of line drying believe that such bans should be repealed, for line drying can significantly reduce America's carbon footprint. Official figures say that "tumble dryers guzzle 6% of household electricity, second only to fridges. If one in three Americans started line drying for five months of the year, 2.2m tonnes of CO2 would have been prevented from entering the atmosphere by 2020."

    What do you think?
     
    #1 powerof0, Oct 9, 2010
  2. TtotheJay

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    -_- Unsightly? Who gives a shit! It saves money, its good for the environment.. so why the hell not? It's crap like this that pulls us further away from the natural, the good.. when we start worrying about appearances over what is beneficial. There's a problem here o_O
     
    #2 TtotheJay, Oct 10, 2010
  3. Kangaroos

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    I mean, I agree that its unsightly. It does take away from the house/neighborhood but I think a ban is going a little bit too far. And to be honest, it's possible to place these clothes lines in less conspicuous places... like your back yard or something. It doesn't have to be somewhere right out in the open for everyone to see. But yeah, I'm all for lowering our carbon footprint.
     
    #3 Kangaroos, Oct 10, 2010
  4. 3dee

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    It's my property, I can do whatever the hell I want.
     
    #4 3dee, Oct 10, 2010
  5. zikaroo

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    Agrees with the post above.Why should it matter where your clothes lines are . If neighbors don't like it they don't have to look
     
    #5 zikaroo, Oct 10, 2010
  6. pandora

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    If its good for the enviroment i don't think there should be a problem really, with all the recycling laws going on.
     
    #6 pandora, Oct 17, 2010
  7. Rhett

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    If I were trying to sell my house and the one thing from stopping a sale was my neighbor's unsightly outdoor clothes rack, I'd be pissed. That's all I'm saying.
     
    #7 Rhett, Oct 17, 2010
  8. rienei

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    technically speaking, while handing your clothes over the wall, one side of the shirt is inside your house and the other side a few mm out of your apartment boundary. Its freaking unsightly and usually in apartments theres not a fixed pole for hanging clothes.

    People just hang it over and it kinda shows how disorientated or messy the family is. I'd be embarrassed hanging my clothes around like that. In my country, its not banned and so far as seen from many of my friend's house visits, most of those who hang their clothes like this don't really care about tidiness.
     
    #8 rienei, Oct 20, 2010