Drying Clothes Without ELectric

How can you get this done, when there is no electric? Plus recipes for home-made laundry detergent.
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Laundry: Drying Clothes-Building a Clothes Line

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GO GREEN, Build A Solid Outdoors Clothes Line.
https://cottagecraftworks.blogspot.com/2009/09/go-green-build-solid-outdoors-clothes.html

It’s taken us many years of moving and installing clothes lines, before we finally figured out the secrets of building and installing substantial clothes line post. We have helped a few friends do theirs as well. Here is what we have discovered along the way.

First check your deed restrictions if you live in a deed restricted community. Clothes lines were not very popular before the Green Movement, and some HOA, still views them as rather trashy.

Second, it takes substantial material, we prefer... ---CONTINUED---
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How to Line Dry Like a Boss
https://www.imperfectlyhappy.com/how-to-line-dry/?fbclid=IwAR0foJxu3AKO9Ac6G9FvlDZa7p-OTy87udujkxpeFoP4OKCDwAYCzj67gSg

Drying Clothes Without ELectric How-to-line-dry How to line dry like a boss! Ok, I’ll admit, I laughed hysterically when I wrote that title; clearly I haven’t had enough coffee. But let’s talk about how to line dry and really like it. I love my clothesline and living in Phoenix I use it, pretty much, all year long. I enjoy the quiet time hanging my laundry out on the line, except on the days it is over 110 degrees. ---CONTINUED---
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How to Dry Your Clothes Without Power
https://momwithaprep.com/how-to-dry-your-clothes-without-power-pinteresting-thursday/

Whether you are existing in a post-disaster situation with no power or you are choosing to rely less on the grid that provides power for your home, finding ways to effectively dry your clothes, in no matter what amount of space that you have, can be daunting if the only option you’ve seen is the large telephone-like limbers that take up the entire backyard of someone’s home. There are many options that I’ve found and collected on Pinterest, and I’ll share them here, plus some other ideas that might be helpful. ---CONTINUED---
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How to Clean Your Clothesline
https://momwithaprep.com/how-to-clean-your-clothesline/

It’s spring, and when you go out to hang your clothes on the outside line for the first time this season, you might find that your clothesline doesn’t look like it’s been sitting in a fresh mountain breeze all these months, but that it’s been sitting in mud and other strange things the whole time. You don’t want to put your freshly washed clothes on that dirty clothesline, do you? ---CONTINUED---
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How to Dry Clothes Outside
https://www.wikihow.com/Dry-Clothes-Outside

If you’d like to reduce your energy use or costs, drying your clothes outside rather than in the dryer is a great way to do so. Sunlight is a natural sanitizing and bleaching agent, and line drying keeps your clothes in better condition than drying them in a machine. An added bonus is the sweet smell of sun-dried clothing fresh off the clothesline! ---CONTINUED---
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