1. Line dry laundry evolution [Expert]

7/14: Embark on my first "full" line dry hang...  I pick an auspicious, misty and overcast day for it, but the sun eventually dries everything out.  

I should time this approach vs. the dryer approach since it feels more tedious but I couldn't quantify by exactly how much.    

This makes me extra motivated to reuse towels rather than getting fresh ones.  They use up so much real estate on our line!  They dry a bit stiff but no family members have complained so far so no need to fall back to plan B (short dryer air fluff).    

It also motivates me to continue to shift my "uniform" over as much as possible to fast drying fabrics (bike shorts, hiking paints, swim tops).  Also to pieces multiple times if they are serviceably clean.  

I should buy more kid-sized hangers for kid clothes since the "hack" of hanging the adult t-shirts on the hangers they would be stored on worked so well.     

This indoor over sink drying rack wasn't ideal.  These were small items like underwear I didn't want to walk out side and display to the neighborhood.  Yet it seemed like there wasn't enough air circulation and
thicker fabrics like socks got funky and went back through the wash after a baking soda pre-treat.  

7/16:  "Perfect is the enemy of the good" attempt #2

Line dry almost all items except small thick items and kid clothes.  There are fewer towels this time.  The line does a great job quasi-pressing hubby's pants to feel slightly stiff.  The indoor rack is not so heavily loaded and since it is a sunnier day, items dry there without issue.    

What few clothes remain in the dryer I can run on a much shorter "minimal dry" cycle and they come out bone dry.  

7/17:  (Thursday) I usually run two+ loads of sheets and sundry on Friday.  I line dry our king-sized flannel duvet and the linen cases and fitted sheet while I'm at it because more often than not, the duvet will get knotted up in a ball in the dryer and "knot" dry anyway.  The second load of kid's twin sheets and enough clothes to make a full load would go straight into the dryer.  I'm moving up the king size laundry load a day so our house sitters have relatively fresh sheets if they opt to stay in our bedroom instead of the guest room.  Maybe in the future I will have different weekly wash days designated for each sheet set so there is sufficient line space to hang them all.  That would probably also more evenly apply greywater to our banana circle as opposed to flooding it with 2-3 loads back to back.  

I found it took about 7 mins to hang rags and assume it will take another 7 to put them away, so this method comes at about a 15 min premium per load (using my current workflow).  But I suppose I could also consider the bonus steps/light activity minutes as a benefit.  I also found I could hang the small items dryer below the fence sightline in hopes of getting greater air circulation with more privacy.  

7/22:  ran two loads coming back from a weekend away.  Innovations were to cut the number of trips outside with some batch processing by dragging the hamper of towels/pants out.  I gave myself permission to sort the socks and non-swim kid clothes into the dryer (combined over two loads and set to "less dry").  Hang shirts in staging area by the washer.  Put delicates/small items on the little drying rack while it was next to washer.  Move the "delicates" rack outside to its more discrete post for better air circulation.  42 minutes of labor including the sort-fold-hanging that I would have incurred using the dryer the old way across 2 loads of laundry.  This also has the summer advantage of not adding extra heat to the living area and keeping the house quieter for more of the day.