AIBU to like seeing washing out on the line?

I love to see a line of 'whites' flapping in the breeze on a sunny day. Though I must admit a line of washing draped around a building does look a little odd, but it's probably the only place she can dry it, she may not have a garden or a tumble drier. It used to be an everyday sight in London tenement flats when I was a child. Many people just have to make use of the space and facilities available to them.

I'm lucky to have a garden line and a tumble drier so I use both depending on the weather and what it is I'm drying.

Why should Brexit dictate how we do our laundry!! Sorry, no way am I going to be bossed about by Europe !

We live in a small apartment in the town centre. When we bought our new build in this development our solicitor pointed out specific rules/regulations - no laundry to be dried on balconies, no pets etc. We were fine about it & signed up. That line of washing that caused offence does look pretty odd draped around the building like that! Imagine if other residents copied it - pretty unsightly!

Love the response from the locals.

Love to get the washing out to dry - got three loads on the line today double pegged so it doesn't blow away in the wind!! We have a rotary drying line but it doesn't hold enough washing so have added a line the length of the garden now as well.

I live in sheltered housing where we have a big communal garden hardly used by the residents. I asked if we could have some rotary dryers put up discreetly so we could hang out our washing, but this was refused as it would be seen as 'unsightly'. Personally, I thought it would make the place seem more alive and homely.

I remember my childhood in Leeds when there were no cars and every Monday the back-to-back houses would see residents stringing their washing across the cobbled streets. What a sight it was!

out the front??? why????

Because there's nowhere else to put it?

This is one of those occasions when I feel very fortunate to live in the middle of nowhere with no neighbours for half a mile so I can hang my washing out in any manner I see fit on any day of the week! In reality, I have a conventional whirligig line on which I hang everything bar towels (always tumble dry these for softness) and Sunday is always my bedding day. I love clean bed linen that's been line dried. I can't say the drying arrangement in Coryton looked very attractive but if that's the only facility available, what else can you do?

Drying washing outside is the most environmentally sound way to do it depending on local weather conditions. For those who like sanitised and washing free views I would say get a life and welcome to the real world rather than a picture postcard or instagrammed world.

I always hang washing out if possible but I have an enclosed back garden. I must admit I had not considered how those without managed but I guess a rotary line is better than stringing out along a wall of the house. Flat dwellers miss out unless there is a communal garden but I suppose some would complaine if sitting out amongst your smalls!

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”. ?

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.

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

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.

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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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Nutbush City Limits has just popped into my head.

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

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.

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.

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.