AIBU to like seeing washing out on the line?

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.

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'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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

From what I read, the young woman who hangs her washing in the front garden does so because she doesn't have a back garden, nor, presumably, a yard. It's very cowardly to write anonymously and presumptuous to imply that it was a problem for not just the letter writer but for others too.

I must admit I think it would look rather untidy if everyone hung their washing out in the front but, as a general rule, I don't think it's reasonable to tell other people what they can and can't do in their own homes and gardens/yards.

This topic makes me think of the scene in Get Carter where a car is driven at speed through the back streets of - was it Newcastle? - pulling down all the lines of washing.

All bad for the environment too.

I do use the tumble dryer when needs must but using all that electricity when there is no need is not good for the future of the planet.

I believe that some developments in California ban drying clothes outside as it’s too unsightly. All that sun going to waste.

Something I don't like to see is a line which always has the empty pegs left along it.
Me neither shysal
I made myself a very simple replacement peg bag not long ago and there are lots of bags, boxes available for pegs.

I use a tumble drier sometimes but always feel guilty about the environment, the cost etc. In winter I dry things in the house but it seems to be there all week with various loads etc. I hang it out in the summer when it dries in a fraction of the time and smells lovely and fresh. I like to see washing blowing in the breeze -but maybe not other people's underwear in the FRONT garden!!!

I have a retractable one Beau its ideal. I just pull it across when I need it and it feeds back in when I don't.

I use a retractable line which I zig-zag from fence to fence of my narrow garden, but I always put it away after use. Something I don't like to see is a line which always has the empty pegs left along it.

That does look an odd way to hand washing out, can understand those that don't like that to some extent. But on a proper line no problem.
I have a long line and a whirly, my laundry goes out winter and summer.

I help out a lady who lives in local HA bungalow (originally OAP estate, now over 50s) and new tenants have just been told they are not allowed to put up washing lines of any sort. Also that they are not allowed to plant flowers etc. All to make it easier for mowing machines. So the people in her row will be looking at the back wall of concrete garages from their sitting room rather than some nice shrubs/climbers like she does and have to dry laundry indoors (tiny bungalow/flat) somehow.

Aaah that explains it then gilly my GM was a very religious good Catholic as well.

When in the 60’s i first heard about the Sunday thing in Germany I coukdnt believe it, no car washing, no lawn cutting, no diy, no clothes hung out, no loud music, what did they do all day? Though it makes for a quiet and relaxing day. They still keep to Sunday’s as we used to years ago, no shops open to this day, as is the case in most of Europe I would think. Certainly in France. Families would go out for a walk dressed in their Sunday best ( remember that?) and have ice cream or coffee and cake. They may well still do this. Probably not as much....
I do my washing on a Sunday but avoid shopping if I can because I feel staff should be able to be at home with family instead of having to be at work especially As many large supermarkets are open 24 hours a day. We managed before with Sunday closing, plus a half day closing midweek, but that is all long gone. I am not religious but Sunday is now exactly the same as any other day, apart from the roastie of course.

Always Hang the washing out in the garden, preferring a long line over a whirlybird because the washing gets more exposure to the sun. I even put some out yesterday, a grey cloudy chilly day, not expecting it to dry completely, but it did.
When I had a tumble drier decades ago when the children were small and nappies needed to be washed and dried I used it when I had to but since then, over 40 years, manage with a drier indoors in winter and the long line all other times.
Laundry is the only thing I really enjoy and I often offer to hang friends washing out And get it in. They think I am mad.

I have never had a washing line. I have a lovely purple rack/clothes horse that I put in the garden room and it dries our clothes beautifully. I prefer towels dried in the tumble drier as it stops them going hard.

I use my washing line most days but never on a Sunday.

I have a 15 ft double line at the side of my house....weather permitting it’s nearly always full. The dryer only gets used in the winter. There is nothing like watching clothes and bed linen fluttering in the breeze. I wash everyday of the week.

I wouldn’t like my neighbours smalls draped across my front door if I’m honest. I live on a small development with communal gardens at the front - we can’t leave bins outside the front door, estate agents boards are banned and everyone has to get the outside painted every 3 years. Fortunately we have got a back garden so can hang washing there.

Tbh it does look a mess hanging from a window.
If washing is hung like this all the time, you can’t blame neighbours for not liking it.