You´re right, OP, nothing smells like sheets and pillow cases that have been dried in the sun and the wind. I wonder if Barbra Streisand knows about Great Neck? She has decreed that the hoi polloi should eschew clothes dryers to save energy.

OK, I agree with everybody. Line hung clothes, sheets, towels, whatever are wonderful. But in the front yard? No, no, no. Tho as early as the 80s I heard of HOAs that wouldn´t allow lines at all. Besides, today no one knows how to hang clothes out, by size, by type, hiding the underwear from prying eyes.

I think anyone who would hang clothes in the front yard is bonkers. However, I absolutely love hanging laundry outside and would still be doing it if we had not moved into a condo.

I used to love hanging the clothes, then sitting out on the back porch with a cold drink and relax while watching the clothes blow lazily in the breeze. Heaven!

I can understand not hanging in the front yard. That does look awful.

A friend of mine lived in a subdivision in Contra Costa County (CA) back in the 90s and they weren´t allowed to put clothes lines in their backyards!

They HOA rules were awful ... but she didn´t mind at all. She said it was really pleasant to live there.

Is there anything the Prius driving idiots don´t hate?

there are many HOA´s that don´t allow clotheslines in the back yard - thankfully, ours is not one of them. But in the front??? Oh my - right next to the sprung couch on the lawn and the old fridge on the porch and the car on blocks in the driveway. I would not be happy, even in a far less than ´´wealthy´´ suburb...

Don´t hang the stuff in the front yard, but it´s OK to hang it out in long lines of windows and doorways in the mall or on the bodies of wearers as they cruise the mall openly searching for reactions to their skin, thongs, boob-boosters, and see-through jeans and shirts. Clotheslines are of no consequences in comparison.

I side with the town. Why? Well, this part of Brooklyn has gone 90% Chinese.Attached 20 ft wide row houses mostly, usually 3 fam each 60+ houses per block. front yard usually the size of 6 garbage pails. And many of them use that front yard for clothes drying. No clothes line. They just hang or lay the clothes everywhere.
they´re also garbage pickers. They go through everyone´s trash 24/7.

Thabt´s why.

You got it #7.

Isn´t Amerika wonderful. Fine the crap out of people for not using a clothes dryer. If they can´t come up with the money, two weeks and a day in jail for going for the air dried look.

The only problem I have with clothes lines is that you have to tighten them up too often, or they sag.

But then, I´m just a low life white trash kinda guy loving freedom, or the distant memory of it.

Tell you what - If some snoot doesn´t like my clothes line, I´m glad they ain´t my neighbor.

Left home one day, returned early because I forgot something, and my neighbor´s clothes were on my line. I howled at her embarrassment at getting caught, but I totally understood.

Maybe someday when the electric bills are too much for even those who think they´ll always be able to afford them, they´ll fall face first off their high horse.

Yeah, I´m all for line-drying clothes. Best smell and feel in the world. But not in the front yard.

These sorts rules - in the form of neighborhood covenants - have been around for decades. Some even say you cannot put up colored Xmas lights (only white - colored is ´low class´. )

How many of these folks who agree that clothes shouldn´t be hanging out front are also the same people who were supporting those people keeping the monsterous treehouse in the front yard last week?? Just curious....

I agree that laundry should not be hung in the front yard (Sorry condo folks). I see no problem with hanging them in back yards though. I do prefer freedom over all however. I wish people would just use common sense. I hate HOAs and will never buy into one if I can help it. My mother used to hang some laundry (items that she felt didn´t belong in the dryer, like sheets), but she hung them inside our garage (we didn´t use our garage for cars).

I agree that a clothesline in the front yard is unacceptable. However, to outlaw clotheslines in our own backyard? Ludicrous.

I never had any problem with that. Of course we used the barbed wire fence as the line. Worked great, too, except when the wind got up, the flapping clothes spooked the cows. Talk about a great clean smell, especially after we cut some hay. Wow!!

Sounds pretty snooty to me. Its my yard. I´ll put what I darned well please in it.
It is not unusual in my area to see neighbors with deer hanging from the trees.

I love the freedom of being a country mouse. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness get somewhat curtailed when the population gets crowded. The fewer regulations, the better, though.

Can´t wait til the power goes off in NYC.....and it will with the ´Rats in charge.

The headline was very mialeading.

But...but line-drying your clothes is green and eco-friendly! Wealthy lefties have been urging us common folk to do without heat and electric washers and dryers for some time now. Why wouldn´t they want to do their bit to save the environment as well?

I´m with #9 and #16. Just as long as you ´´don´t frighten the horses.´´

This is nothing new in many developments across the country - and not just "wealthy" ones. (We really are into class warfare, aren´t we?)

Our suburban house had permanent clotheslines at the far back of the yard where they could not be seen from the street. And personal items were never hung on the front lines. That is where the sheets went. All very tidy.

Other homes had temporary clothes drying apparatuses that went up for laundry day and then were taken down. All out of sight behind the houses.

The sight of laundry (especially some people´s laundry) is not especially attractive. It sounds as though these people have spoken. Isn´t that what we do here?

The line won´t sag if you use a clothesline pole. Ours were made of 8-10 ft saplings and were strong enough to practice pole vaulting when not holding up laundry. Is pole vaulting still legal? I haven´t checked lately.

Cemented into the ground, silver painted, four inch steel tubing, welded into a T shape, with provision for five well spaced wires.

Cliff swallows nest in the crossbar.

Children swing from the wire.

In full view of the street and neighbor´s house.

Clothing seen without animated fillers are unattractive?

Some clothing filled by muffin-top, butt-baring, gut revealing nasties, is unattractive. Blowing in the wind? Less so.