Quote Originally Posted by tulip View Post
My dryer came with the house and is very old, but it works when I have to use it so I won't replace it until it dies and cannot be repaired. The washer came with my house, too, but it's newer and the same Kenmore model I had in my previous house. I MUCH prefer to dry things on the line outside. That is one reason that I will never live in a development with an HOA. Give me a real neighborhood any day!
When we bought our home 20 years ago, we made our realtor dig out what few CCR's there were. No one even knew our neighborhood even than them. But sure enough, they existed. Fortunately, they were very simple: no livestock, junkyards, or garages taller than houses and that was it.

(CCR is COmmunity Covenants and Restrictions)

I was talking to some recently who has lived in her home in a non CCR are for 30+ years. New people are moving in that are offended by laundry out on the line and are harassing the neighbors. That whole mind set of keeping thing so "nice" that you can't live your life, ie hang your laundry out... ( or put up a basketball hoop, etc) is just out of my comprehension..

For me the key is making it easy. We put up our rectangular on a corner of the deck so all I have to do is go out the back door and the line is right there!! I love my laundry breaks on the sunny days.