“Today is the DAY – Hang out the WASH”

Apr 19th “Today is the DAY – Hang out the WASH”

“Just start doing it – you will be better with the fresh outdoor clean air – and exercise, that makes you feel young agin!”

NATIONAL HANGING OUT DAY

Each year on April 19, Project Laundry List works with hundreds of other organizations to sponsor National Hanging Out Day. This day was set aside as a day to encourage communities to learn about the benefits, both financially and environmentally, of using a clothesline for drying laundry. According to Project Laundry Lists’ website, clothes dryers account for an astonishing six to ten percent of residential energy consumption. Hanging your clothes out has several benefits:

Good for the environment.
Saves you money
It is therapeutic because being outdoors in the fresh air has benefits to your health.

(http://laundrylist.org)

HOW TO OBSERVE

Celebrate National Hanging Out Day by hanging out your clothes to dry and sharing your pictures on social media using #NationalHangingOutDay.

HISTORY

National Hanging Out Day has been sponsored by Project Laundry List along with other organizations since 1995. Project Laundry List is a New Hampshire-based group that wants to encourage outdoor drying of clothes, “making air-drying laundry and cold-water washing acceptable and desirable as simple and effective ways to save energy,” as quoted from their mission statement. (http://laundrylist.org/about/history/)

Sure am glad, that the date is on this old PHOTO of “me” and baby “LEE” in our back yard – where I, would hang out our wash – and at the same time, keep my eye on our baby “LEE” – as he would like to go where ever, he wanted – and when ever he felt like going some where, no mater who would be in charge of watching him – even the “Day Care Nursery” – had no idea how he could wander off from their facility?

To be able to hang the wash out side on the lines is some of the best exercise one gets – the heavy wet wash – shaking the wet item out and getting it to hang just so-so, and with the clothes-pins, to hang the item up on the line – so that when you take down each item – you shake and fold the item just so correctly, that, you can place on the shelf and or in to drawers – so that when you what that item, it smells fresh and is so nicely folded – half of the time, you never need to use an iron.

The above PHOTO is when we lived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and we did not have a basement as we did here in Saint Louis, and had to carry each load of wash up the steps and then into the back yard. So that right there – you can see that you are walking and going up and down steps, with a heavy load of wash, building up the muscles in the arms and legs and as a bonus the fresh out-doors smell of freshness with wonderful SUNSHINE, where else or what could you do and still receive all of that wonderful workout – always feeling better each time you decide to wash clothes.

Sometimes there were seven or eight lines hanging from tree to tree and each line full of clothes. In and out the door from the basement downstairs and smelling all of that nice clean load of clothes blowing in the wind, WOW! The best part is putting all of those nice clean sheets and pillow cases back on the beds – sure does make for a real good night’s sleep and ready to do it all the next week again!

“It is a shame that so many areas where people live today – the hanging out of the “WASH” has been disallowed.” My thought – they prefer everyone to stay in the house and get fat sitting in front of the TV.

“Still today, I hang my wash on the lines in the basement – – just can not break the habit!” D.V.