Laundry Day

Kia Ora!

For no good reason, Thursday is the day I empty the dirty laundry basket in the bathroom, grab used towels and search the flat for anything that needs laundering. All rental flats in our experience provide private laundry facilities. If there is a garage, the washer and dryer will be there. That is what we have here in Timaru.

Laundry sink and washer

Dryer in corner

Lines are full

In other New Zealand places we have lived, the laundry machines have been in a bathroom or in a closet.  From past experience, Kiwis everywhere (except possibly Takapuna where we lived last time in New Zealand) prefer to hang clothes outside. Indeed, an ingenious set of outdoor clotheslines are part of this flat. Every week I've had these lines full by about 10 AM. By 4 PM, the clothes have dried smelling deliciously fresh.



Lines out of the way


When the lines are not in use, they lower against a lattice screen.
Because the lines as well as the clothespins are limited, towels usually go into the dryer and socks get hung on a rack conveniently left up in the spare (guest) bedroom.


The place for socks
 

Unfortunately the clothespins we bought are poorly made and have a tendency to fall apart with little reason. I've resolved to bring sturdier clothespins back with me from the U.S.A. next time.


Cheers until next time,

Kiwi Traveler