AIBU to like seeing washing out on the line?

In the 1940s my mother stayed with her spinster great aunt who used to say to her, should she do washing at the end of the week:
Wash on Friday, wash for need,
Wash on Saturday, sluts indeed!

'Wash on a Sunday' was obviously so beyond the pale as to not even be considered.

The anonymity of the complaint does not sit well. So glad friends support this lady. What would the world be if we were all the same?

Adore seeing washing on a line, especially baby clothes, thinking of all that the future holds. I love train journeys, looking out the window at the scenery in a way that is not possible when driving, then coming into/going out of towns and seeing all the washing on lines telling a little story about the people in the houses. Simple pleasures but nonetheless lovely ones.

Yes, it was really nice that so many people demonstrated their support for her.

feelingmyage When my three daughters were young, an American tourist was walking by my garden and asked if she could take photos of my washing line!
There were lots of little girls’ dresses on the line. Even then apparently Americans didn’t hang their washing outside.

mostlyharmless. Thank you. That reminded me that I took photos of my babies washing on the line. Tiny clothes with lots of white terry nappies.

I like to see clean washing on the line in back garden and especially whites. Sunshine kills bacteria and removes any residual stains. I used to love seeing a washing line full of terry nappies when my children were babies. I used to boil them with Biotex after soaking in Nappysan. I was very proud of how white they washed up. When weather is good I always line dry but when wet I tumble dry. Best of both worlds.

I've put a retractable line in my last two gardens and they are great. The extending clothes pole is very neat. I use it practically every day and it is so easy and quick to set up/take down.

I love seeing a line full of whites blowing in the wind!

It reminds me of a time shortly after my 1st child was born.

It was a gorgeous clear sunny day, I'd managed to get baby to sleep, put a meal in the oven ready for the evening, and put a full load of washing on the line. I sat down for a while in the garden watching it and thinking how lucky I was.

It was such an overwhelming feeling of energised peace.

Everything was right in my world.

I'll never forget it.

I love to see washing hanging on the line especially if it's moving in a slight breeze and with the sun on it. Everything is so much fresher for being dried outside. I wouldn't put it at the front of my house though.

We were never allowed to put washing outside on a Sunday, in fact not allowed to do any housework on a Sunday, passed down from GGM who was chapel.
I don't mind seeing a washing line that is confined to a rear garden but would take exception to one at the front of the house especially if it was displaying underwear.

Namsnanny what a lovely memory. Thank you for sharing it.
It gives me great pleasure that DD hangs her washing outside whenever possible and enjoys what my grandmother spoke of as a “free luxury*; aa freshly made bed with line dried linen.
Don’t think either of us would be comfortable hanging it at the front of the house, but I would defend the Devon woman’s right to do it though, if it was the only outdoor space she had.

Oh harri what’s wrong with underwear? I hang all mine, the children’s and DH’s out on the line. Okay so it’s out back, but some folk don’t have back gardens/yards. My paternal grandparents lived in typical pit cottages with huge front gardens (almost an allotment) and no backs. All washing was hung out front. I still pass regularly and people still do the same, huge washing lines the full length of the front garden. Can’t see a problem.

We still live in that sort of house, gillybob, and can’t see a problem either.

Nutbush City Limits has just popped into my head.

gilly, I have 30+ flats at the top of my street and you should see some of the washing from single male occupants and even women

Drying clothes indoor is frowned on by some letting agents , because of condensation . If you have no other outside space and it is a nice sunny day I don't see it as being the end of the world. The writer of the letter wants to see our town with its empty shops , litter and overgrown grass & weeds

Absolutely batshit!
Unless your housing association has rules about washing lines nobody should tell you weather (ha ha) you can hang your washing out!
I don't hang my 'bigs' out as I have a shared garden but everything else is out, weather permitting (and health permitting as I currently have a frozen shoulder ?).
I've never had a tumble dryer, I couldn't afford to run one.

I got rid of my washing line years ago, never ending putting it out and then bringing it in even wetter when I got home from work. Waste of time. Use tumbler dryer for everything, quick, easy, far less time consuming and save electricity because most things don't need ironing. Bonus - soft towels. I rest my case.

People should be free to hang their washing however they want, but we are also free to think it looks awful from the photograph shown and would have been better on an airer outside, or a rotary dryer.

Nothing wrong with washing being out...but out the front??? why???? Must say it must look a bit naff! I'm one who hangs my smalls, ok maybe not so small on the inside of the rotary line with other clothes in front....and that's in my back 'secluded' garden!! I can't see what the desire is for all and sundry to see your washing!
Not only would my gran have had a fit, but my mother too!

Polyester57
ARE YOU FOR REAL

I love putting washing out. It smells so lovely when it's being ironed. The first thing I think of when i see the sun out is 'oo good I can put some washing out' Sad or what? I would never hang it out at the front of the house though.

How snobbish of the anon. writer. Presumably they don't wash their clothes?

Luckily I didn’t hang my smalls out this morning. They would have blown to Kingdom Come by now and I would hate to see my bras and knickers in a hedge across the road.

My mum never used to do the washing on a Sunday- then as she got older she had a total change of mind.Her new slogan was - “the better the day the better the deed”. ?