I’m Amish & we hang our clothes to dry outside even when it’s snowing – it still works & means you don’t use electricity
A FORMER Amish woman has shown how those within the belief system dry their laundry even when it's snowing.
Despite being the dead of winter, the drying trick still works all without electricity.
Naomi Swartzentruber (@amishinspiration) is an ex-Amish author and former exotic dancer who regularly posts about her old religious way of life online.
She grew up in the strictest of the Amish sects, the Swartzentruber Amish, and ran away at seventeen years old.
They typically don't use electricity, so she showed viewers in a TikTok video how they dry their clothes without heat even in the winter.
In the 11-second clip, she panned across acres of land that were covered in powdery, white snow.
There was fresh laundry blowing in the strong wind on a long clothesline that spanned the property.
She explained in the subtitle why there were tons of garments hanging on the line covered and surrounded by snow.
"The Amish hang their clothes out to dry in the winter when it's cold and snowing," it read.
Not everyone was convinced about the effectiveness of her drying method.
"Wouldn't it take forever to dry? Wouldn't they freeze? lol," a viewer asked.
"Takes most of the day to dry. Sometimes when there's humidity it doesn't dry all the way. Then we bring them inside and hang them on drying racks," she replied.
Others were fans of the solution and some even had tried the hack themselves.
"There is no smell on Earth better than laundry dried outside in the winter," one commented.
"Cloth dried outside smells fresh. We do this in Norway to dry outside," another wrote.
After twenty years of being an exotic dancer, Naomi published her memoir, The Amazing Adventures of an Amish Stripper in 2023.
