TIL I’d been hanging laundry totally wrong for years and a neighbor in Nashville set me straight

So my neighbor Carol saw me struggling with a tangled mess of shirts on my backyard line and she just laughed. Turns out I was clipping them by the shoulders instead of the bottom hem, which stretched out the fabric every time. She showed me her method and even timed it - 12 seconds per shirt vs my 45 second struggle. Anyone else have a “wait, I’ve been doing it backward this whole time” moment that a random person caught?

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king.aaron2mo agoMost Upvoted

12 seconds per shirt seems like overkill for hanging laundry, is it really that serious?

val9492mo ago

Took me 45 minutes once trying to get the wrinkles out of a single dress shirt because I was using those flimsy plastic hangers they give you at the dry cleaner. The thing kept slipping off and hitting the floor, so I finally gave up and just wore a hoodie instead. Now I only use those thick wooden hangers my aunt gave me from her estate sale, and I can hang a shirt in about 10 seconds flat. Still takes me half an hour to do a whole load though cause I stop to check my phone between each shirt.

alex3071mo ago

12 seconds seems slow if you're just talking hanging one shirt, but are you factoring in the time to actually get the shirt flat and wrinkle-free before you clip it? That part always takes me the longest, trying to smooth it out without creating new creases. I'm curious if Carol had a trick for that too or if she just threw them up there with no worries.