Lately it seems like every time laundry day (Tuesday and Friday) rolls around, it's raining outside. And since I hang clothes outside to dry, this is really a pain!

One of the easiest ways to save money is to hang your clothes to dry. Some people don't even have a dryer, since they hang everything.

We do have a dryer, that is rarely used in the spring, summer and fall. In the winter I use it for underwear, sheets, and towels, but hang up all of our pants and shirts.

We have a clothes pole in the laundry room and a six row clothesline in the backyard. When we lived in a duplex, we hung a five row clothesline in the basement.

A very smart thing that I remember reading (I think on a chat board) was to put a chain on the end of your clothes line pole (or whereever else you can) and put your clothes on hangers, then hang the hangers on the chain. You save space because you are hanging the items vertically instead of horizontally.

For those of you who say you hate the stiffness of the clothes after being on the line, throw them in the dryer for 5 minutes or so to soften them up. You may only have to do this with underwear and towels, since shirts and pants quickly soften up after you begin to wear them.

Get creative when you are looking for places to hang clothes. It's amazing what you can do when you just think about it.