:confused: Singing (my guess) If not .....

You're getting a lump of coal for Christmas! :jester:

BogeyBoy; Just because you can doesn't mean that you should. My wife uses drying racks and places them in our garage for those items she does not want to place in the dryer. The only one offended is me:D

There are many issues in which I disagree with The Villages but deed compliances is not one of them. I seen the way some residents decorate and/or maintain their carts and thank God The Villages has rules otherwise many of us would be at the mercy of some neighbors , to put it gently and politely, lack of awareness and/or lack of care.

If you check around you will find many people like my wife and me who would have never considered moving to Florida but for The Villages because of their rules. Don't bite the hand that feeds you

Personal Best Regards:

Well stated - Thank you. I need to ask Santa for some tact. :wave:

Regarding clotheslines in The Villages: "It is somewhat important that I should not say any foolish things...It very often happens that the only way to help it is to say nothing at all."
Abraham Lincoln

Most of our age group grew up with using clotheslines as part of our daily lives.

TV clothesline deed restrictions aside (and they may not be enforceable anyway), what is causing this strong aversion to having clotheslines back in use?

Is it just because we don’t like the “looks of them”? Or is it something deeper?

This topic caused me to think more about drying clothes outside and how it would impact me on a daily basis. And that got me to thinking about certain other types of deed restrictions in general.

I am trying to better understand how we have evolved to the point that we can’t live in a neighborhood where seeing clothes on a line in a backyard would cause so much harm to our way of life. I wonder if clotheslines represent a place in our lives that we like to think we have worked hard to get beyond.

I do understand the purpose of deed restrictions in the big picture. I guess I am trying to justify in my mind why what I like or don’t like to SEE should become a legally enforceable item for all of my greater community to live with.

I start to get uneasy when legally enforceable restrictions based on feelings/likes/dislikes become even more pervasive.

Yes, I did read my deed restrictions before purchasing in TV. Yes, I understand maintaining property values, noise restrictions, age restrictions and shared common services. I must admit some of these potential issues seem more real than others.

Thanks
Don

They wouldn't bother me aesthetically much. I just hate being preached at by the greenies. Not that I don't believe in global warming either. But some focus on some small thing and rant about it. A greenie wanted the pools to be cooled, for instance.

Not living in The Villages anymore, but I love having and seeing a clothesline. There is no better way to dry your clothes, sheets or towels, but to each his own. I remember my mom hanging clothes in the basement in the winter and I finally hung one in my early 30's and continued to do so every opportunity that presented itself.

Hubs and I were SO disappointed the day our clothesline came down...it was the day AFTER we realized that our allergies were severely impacted by the pollen and other airborne particles that had attached to the sheets, towels, shirts, etc. The drying rack just doesn't give the same effect as the outdoors does!

There was nothing I enjoyed more as a kid than making my bed with sheets that had spent several hours drying outside in the sunshine - back in the days before the allergies set in!

Gracie, I think the so-called "greenies" are just stating their opinion. I don't see it as preaching just as I don't see as preaching your oft-stated opinion that nothing anyone can do individually will make a difference.

Just differences of opinion. I'll keep doing my thing, and you keep doing yours!:)