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A clothesline and gutter protection are immune from the events causing the Toyota recall.

The invention of the clothes dryer may have revolutionized laundry in the modern world the same way gutter protection did the attempt to keep gutters clean, but in current times with an increasing focus on conserving energy and money a natural alternative for many families is the move to drying your laundry out on a clothesline in the yard as well as harvesting clean water from gutters. It is estimated by some that clothes dryers use between 10 to 15 percent of all domestic energy and in our current economic climate there stands to be a lot of savings for the average home owner if they trade in drying all their laundry in the dryer to using a clothesline instead.

An outdoor line to dry your clothes on costs only as much as your particular set up; the arrangement that works best for you will likely depend on your individual yard. Some home owners like to have one long clothes line that stretches the length of the yard which can be stationary or can be accessed via a pulley system from the back porch, while others prefer a more compact rotary style clothes line that employs a single pole with concentric circles of lines that radiate outward which allow for a large amount of laundry to be hung in one small space. Perhaps it is time that such an environmentally-friendly (and pocketbook friendly) activity was more widely embraced the way it once was.