If it helps you feel more comfortable we did more than that for our dog at several points.
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These reactive shelter dogs! They are incredible, but not budget friendly, haha.
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I definitely spend more than that for my dog on average!
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I’ve washed clothes in my bathtub a few times now but if I have even a little budget room that’s immediately a no. Immediately. It’s a really good grip strength workout but like. I’m not an 18th century farmer.
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New idea for a training facility. It’s just a hand-washed laundry place, but i get strongmen to pay for the experience.
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Every single day I consider leaving my job for a moving company just to get paid for gains
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I’ve quite often thought that I should just advertise “strength training” or “aerobic conditioning” available at my house. Your exercises will be to use my tiller to dig up the earth (or a shovel for challenge+ mode!) and mow my lawn with a push mover (don’t use motor assist for challenge+ mode!). Weeding is also available as a lower cardio workout, moving rocks is available to build strength specifically, and digging out oriental bittersweet is, uh, I don’t know but we hates it and it is hard, so come get a workout.
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Or a farm 
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I need a laundry line outside and I’ve been thinking about this for some time and I asked my parents when they were here what would they do if they were starting from scratch, line or umbrella-type thing (a hills hoist, but we don’t call them that here so they wouldn’t have known what that was) and they said umbrella! I was thinking the same, I don’t really want a line across the yard, the places I could put one have a lot of trees (= debris + bird activity) (besides, there’s no really super good place to put a permanent line in).
So my question is, does anyone have any recs for a good, quality hills hoist from personal experience (or second hand) made in the US (or purchasable here anyway, I don’t want to pay exorbitant shipping fees), that one is able to crank closed (like a patio umbrella) and put a cover on? I am sure I have seen those before. What with all the birds I have around, I don’t really want to have one permanently open, as I would probably use it once a week, and the birds will just sit on it and use it as a lookout and poop on it. 
So I want to minimize that.
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Can’t help with sourcing, but I’m going to advocate for line. I can hang laundry on a line much faster/more efficiently than a hills hoist, but that may just be me. I have a retractable one mounted on the side of my garage and it hooks onto my fence post when in use. And when I’m not using it I don’t have to look at it/have it in my way. If you don’t have the right place for mounting the second end you may have to install a post somewhere.
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I have two of these off the side of my house, and it’s awesome! We put hooks on the convenient tall posts on the corners of our deck. I have a plastic coated line which is cracking, and I don’t love that, but the retractability is awesome. And then it can just be moved if you want it somewhere else.
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How taut are these though really? I used to have a sort of “rigged” version of this, and over time it sagged incredibly and it made me really unhappy to look at its saggy-ness. It it’s not saggy I might go for it…
Growing up we had a line that one end was attached to the house and the other to a telephone pole that had been installed at the other side of the yard (!!! I have no idea how my great-grandfather and great-uncle even got one to use, but it was legit a telephone pole))
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I pull mine out to attach to the hook, but then there’s a little knob underneath the dispenser that you wrap the line around to keep it taut. Mine gets a little saggy, but only with heavy things like comforters.
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Do they all have plastic coated line? I also don’t love that. I guess hills hoists have that too though.
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My husband bought mine on Amazon, so I don’t know if they all have the plastic coating. I haven’t done any research, sorry 
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Ok thanks! I was going to ask you what brand you have it you really love it too, but maybe you don’t know, and if so no worries!
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Ha, this is why I have a login to his Amazon account 
We have these ones. They’re not available anymore, but it looks like there are a lot of VERY similar ones.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CNZKC8T/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Mine is also plastic-coated line. It’s been here for longer than the 16 years I’ve lived here, so it’s quite durable.
Mine doesn’t have the knob, so I installed a hook to wrap the line around. Also no sagging issues any worse than any other clothesline (i.e. only with super heavy things).
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Thanks! Ok, maybe I should consider a retractable one… 
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The clotheslines I’ve used are nice if you like to hang stuff out on hangers instead of always needing pins. I need to rehang them once I disassemble my rabbitry. They are very much plastic material but I really dig the convenience of being able to use hangers.
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