So how can you air your laundry without offending your HOA? Many options. A backyard with a privacy fence would work, or using a back porch (what they can't see can't offend...) or, if your attic is floored and has stairs as ours does, you can get some exercise and dry laundry very efficiently at the same time. These are our clotheslines. I use the old TV antenna at the back for hanging shirts on hangers, or pot holders or aprons with loops. I can generally hang about 2 loads at a time up there, hung early in the morning this time of year, and taken down in the evening. No, the light bulb is NOT a CFL. Why? I have bumped my head on a bulb up there and broken it before, and I do not relish cleaning up mercury-contaminated (CFLs dirty secret- all of them currently contain mercury, so if government forces us all to convert, mercury environmental contamination will get A LOT worse) glass in a hot attic. I haven't seen any mercury cleanup kits in the light bulb section of the store, as we would be required to have at work if we use a mercury-containing product.
Anyway, these lines are old, but they work quite well. The clothes get that slightly stiff feeling that comes from not being beaten to death in a dryer, and they last longer. You save money all the way around.
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