I guess, about somethings, I am very naive. I never knew there were places where you could not hang your laundry out on a line. On occasions Anita at Prairie Dreams has mentioned that she is not allowed to have laundry lines in her “community” and it always makes me feel badly that I am able and she is not. I love hanging laundry and find it difficult to understand why a such a basic thing as hanging laundry can be denied. In Anita’s case, I believe the reason for the “law” is mainly because it is temporary housing, but there are places in the United States where is it actually written in the laws that laundry cannot be hung outside the home to dry. I find this absurd and right up there on the STUPID LAWS shelf with…not being able to collect water off of your roof line.

Project Laundry Line is an organization dedicated to education and advocacy of “making air-drying laundry acceptable as a simply and effective way to save energy.”  My Project Laundry List newsletter arrived the other day and it referenced an the article, about a laundry line art exhibit titled “Unmentionables’ Sculpture is Hung Out to Dry” from the Washington Post.

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“From The Washington Post, “Of all the office buildings downtown, Washington Square is perhaps the oddest place for an underwear-art [hung on a clothesline] controversy: One of its tenants is Victoria’s Secret. The lingerie store, under renovation until fall, is just a few feet from where [the] installation once stood. Victoria’s Secret is known for its racy window displays of scantily clad mannequins.” Nevertheless, lawyers got involved and an experienced artist, Joyce Zipperer, was forced to remove the exhibit…..” Read more HERE.

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Another interesting find at Project Laundry List is the “Petition to the Whitehouse to Regain Your Right to Line Dry” from the Right2Dry.org. (Be sure you have your volume turned up to hear the banjo music.)

“It is the inalienable right of every man, woman and child to line dry.”