No wearing white after Labor Day and no clean laundry blowing in the wind

Simply unbelievable in an era when conserving energy and using the power of the sun and wind is on page one. But those who want everything neat and tidy look down their noses at hanging out your laundry and it is illegal is some place - really!

clipped from www.commondreams.org US Residents Fight for the Right to Hang Laundry PERKASIE, Pennsylvania - Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop. Carin Froehlich has help from her granddaughter Ava as they hang some laundry in the front yard of her residence in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, November 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Tim Shaffer) Froehlich is among the growing number of people across America fighting for the right to dry their laundry outside against a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice despite its energy-saving green appeal.