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just some New Hampshire residents who want to do their part to help the environment, but as ABC’s David Kerley reports their efforts to go green are being complicated by their neighbors down the block.

Remember these days,

“What a wonderful sight when your wash is done!”

Hang on! Clothes lines are making a comeback.

And it smells good, smells better than anything that would come out of the drier. It’s a green comeback. Steve and Mimi White hope to cut their carbon footprint by hanging out their socks. 

“One of the things you can do easily is you can hang your laundry out.” American families spend at least 100 dollars a year drying clothes. Electric dryers account for 6% of home electricity use. So save money, save the planet, what’s not to like?

“I don’t wanna see any of them. You know, I wanna see nature. Um, sheets are not nature”. Richard Jacques Homeowners Association and thousands like it ban clothes lines as unattractive, all that underwear, and a threat to property values.

And states it very clearly that outside clothes lines are not permitted.

So down the street, Mary Lou Sayer hangs her wash inside on doors and from light fixtures.

Is this decoration?

No, haha, it is not decoration, it is serious.

Others have figured out  ways around the rules. So in essence, you are hiding hanging your laundry.

I am discreet.

An unlikely activist is trying to line up support to change the rules on clothes lines, hoping states will force associations to allow their residents the right to dry. Laundry has totally taken  over my life. 33-year-old bachelor lawyer, Alexander Lee is trying to empower those who want to hang and believe it or not, 3 states have enacted right to dry laws, 7 others are considering it.

I mean it's several power plants that we could shut down if everybody were to make the switch. That’s if he can convince Americans there is art in hanging out laundry, a beautiful way to help save the planet. David Kerley, ABC news, Rye, New Hampshire