Where do you buy clothes lines?

[Punkie]

I've looked at quite a few stores, and I simply cannot find outdoor clothes lines. I mean the serious ones, not the indoor wimpy ones. Any suggestions?

[Close2MyHeart]

I think DH found ours at Aubachon Hardware... so maybe look at a hardware store :shrug

[Mama Calidad]

Wal-mart...by the ironing boards.

[boonpnutsmom]

There are many many different types of clothes lines. Most you can find at hardware stores.. My clothes lines outside hang from I-bolts from under the eve. In teh house the lines are also from I-Bolts, but every other house we have lived in they were outsidein the yard, posts cemented into the ground...

http://www.trulythefinest.com/prodDetail.cfm/13873,Compact%20Rotary%20Clothes%20Dryer%20%2D%203 0%20Meter,MX1

http://housewares.hardwarestore.com/37-186-outdoor-clothes-dryers-.aspx

[Desert Rose]

I got a sturdy retractable one at Home Depot.

[Mamaka]

You mean they just don't sprout on their own? :giggle

Wal-mart has 'em next to the clothes pins (which were impossible to find :rolleyes)

[Punkie]

I've bought cheap-o retractable ones before, but they always broke.

Today I went to Lowes and found a really sturdy, serious clothes line. I'm going to hang it tomorrow! Yay! I wanted a clothes line SO bad when we lived in Florida, but they were outlawed by our HOA. :P Now I can't wait to get my diapers all nice and white without having to use an annoying drying rack!

[Boys and Angels]

Back in NY, we made them. Well, the guys built them for us. Two pulleys and strong rope. One pulley on your window sill, one pulley FAAAAAAAAAR away, like on a tree or telephone pole (do they even HAVE telephone poles anymore in most places?)

[Punkie]

OK, now I'm using it, and I have it anchored to 2 pieces of my fence, but everytime I use it, it stretches out and I have to move it further apart. Is this normal? Will it eventually stop? The line said that it wouldn't stretch out :shrug

[herbalwriter]

Mine always stretches like that - I wish I knew a way to make it not stretch. I have it as tight as I can get it, and I hang the lightest clothes in the middle and the heaviest on the sides, and they are still almost touching the ground. :shrug

[Punkie]

So do you just keeping moving it?

[herbalwriter]

Yes, I just keep tightening it-I learned my lesson, though, not to untie and try to tighten it when it has wet clothes on it! :O

[Punkie]

Hehe. Yeah, I conked myself on the head the other day while trying to move it. It was not nice.

[herbalwriter]

That is definitely not nice. Hope you're not too banged up! :kiss