I got an e-mail yesterday about the new “Environmentally Friendly Products” section at Stacks and Stacks, and after I checked it out I was simultaneously hopeful and disappointed. Hopeful, because whenever a retailer puts focus on green products and technologies it means that the green “trend” has a better chance of sticking around and affecting some permanent change. Disappointed, because their small selection is kind of padded with items like clothespins and dish drainboards. However, those little items did give me an idea for some products to write about: namely, clotheslines.

If you haven’t been able to afford a new Energy Star compliant washer and dryer (or even if you have one and want to further reduce your environmental footprint), a clothesline can help you save water and energy. If you’re a city dweller like me who has to use the laundrymat and has ZERO yard with which to dry your wet clothes, then an indoor clothesline will do the trick. This is a quandary that I’ve been thinking about in the back of my mind for months now, and I just had no idea that so many indoor clothes drying options existed! There are models that fit over your bath tub (seen above at left), retractable clotheslines that mount on any indoor or outdoor wall (seen at right), collapsible racks that can fit anywhere and even a cute wooden collapsible wall mounted rack (seen below at left). The more familiar outdoor “rotary” clothes dryers and clotheslines are available, too. With the sun being a free and renewable resource, and the first days of summer finally upon us, now would be an ideal time to give line drying your clothes a try !

$9.99-$79.99 for indoor models

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Posted by Lauren in Household, Green Living