Clothes dryer with lavender dryer sheets. And I use dryer sheets in the truck to keep everything smelling....um....more acceptable.
But cat hair on my clean clothes doesn't bother me one little bit. Makes me happy.
Yeah, the birds could ruin a fresh load of laundry and you had to check the lines before you hung things, too. We didn't have a basement, but we didn't have freezing cold too often and it almost never snowed. We did have a few lines in the detached garage where the washing machine was, but they wouldn't hold a full load of wash. Weather forecasting wasn't nearly as accurate but we somehow managed. Which kind of clothespins did you use, straight or spring? We used spring and sometimes one would break and let something drag on the ground. That was not a happy occasion! Colorful plastic clothespins eventually made their appearance and we thought those were wonderful. We even color coded the clothes - more or less!Mother Dragon I also have those memories; as I grew up without a clothes dryer.
There was something 'special' about the line dried clothes... that is, until the birds came out, or the rain or freezing cold temps, or snow... then we had lines which my dad set up in the cellar.. they were line dried in the cellar.