Washing lines

I always hang my washing out weather permitting I love the smell of washing dried outside

What a silly question.

Of course, it’s not common.

Certainly is common practice to hang out the washing, ecologically better and certainly pleasant.
Common used as looking down on others is another matter.
Perhaps if we looked on it as lack of consideration for others instead of being common we'd see it differently.
For example a suburban road with well kept gardens might look down on a neighbour with long grass growing through rusty bicycles and an old stained mattress and call them common.
In the same way a row of neat well kept terraced houses with small front gardens given over to pretty flower pots but the one in the middle with a whirligig of washing might offend the sensibilities of the others, might be deemed common in that sense.
Just a thought

Greciangirl, in my opinion no question is a silly question when it stimulates thought in others.

I’ve never owned a drier and never will. It’s a terrible waste of energy and every time you use it you are contributing to Climate Breakdown ?

I have a square thing with 16 pegs on it, I think it's probably supposed to be used in caravans and I put the hooked handle on to a door handle with a clothes peg at the side to stop it slipping off and just peg the smalls up on that; they're always dry the next morning.
I had to recently start hanging it on a radiator as a crow or rook or raven got into my flat and now I have to keep the internal doors shut and I couldn't shut the kitchen door with the dryer on it.

Who cares what people think. If it is legal then do it.

I remember once an elderly neighbour wanted me to take my washing in as she was having visitors and didn't want them to see it over the gardens ! :-) I did not oblige, the washing wasn't offensive, mostly children's at the time and it was a lovely sunny day. I never hang smalls outside though, just my personal preference.

I hang everything on the line, weather permitting or on a clothes horse in the laundry room. I always tumble dry for 20 minutes when dry to soften them all.

I never hang washing out:

It ruins the look of my garden.

I have allergies so don't want clothes covered in pollen.

I don't want birds to contaminate it with their droppings either.

I don't want things fading in the sun.

It all goes on an airer in the laundry room with a dehumidifier drying it thoroughly in a couple of hours - whatever the weather - much more convenient.

Is your garden very small, then, Hetty58 that you have no room for a clothes line without ruining the view?

All our garden birds are very well trained.

However, I can understand your concerns about the pollen.

I’m common too. Ex (step) mil thought so anyway, was I bothered. Where we live now, our original neighbour told me to get a tumble drier. I use a retractable vileda line as the garden is a bit small to have the line up all the time.

Hanging out washing when you can is great! The men in my house never used to notice rain and rush to get the clothes in like I would! Years ago apparently neighbours used to get each other’s washing in because of problems drying inside.

I love hanging my washing outside, give me a sunny day with a warm breeze and I'm searching the house for things to wash, even ordering DH to strip if I think his clothes need washing. However, one of the great mysteries of life is where do the pegs go? during lockdown I've had to order some online, are they the same place as the missing socks?

Growing up neighbours would get each other’s washing in if it rained. Had forgotten that.

I must be so common that I didn’t even realise that I am common. I have three large bags hanging in the side passage - for light, medium and dark washing (a concept that my OH still struggles with). When a bag is full enough I put the contents into the washing machine then out on to the line whenever possible.

I’ve got two Ikea fold down racks above the radiator in the passage if it rains. OH has taken over the ironing in recent years and tends to do it whilst watching sports on tv.

I was doing the family wash (for 2 adults, 4 children) using a twin tub when I was only 7/8 years old and even started ironing it all whilst my mum was at work trying to please her. It didn’t work!

Absolutely love washing when it has been dried outside especially the bed linen!

I disapprove of dryers. Such a waste of electricity.

My neighbour hates me hanging washing out. No idea why. It doesn't impinge on him. He made a comment one day as I was hanging it out. 'Another load?'

He puts a wash out about once every 3 weeks. Yuck!

I have a line that pulls out and attaches to a tree opposite and winds back in when finished .
I like to start the drying process outside and finish in the tumble dryer . I don’t like the stiffness of line drying, the tumble dryer softens it and saves on the ironing too.

Hanging out washing is wonderful! Lovely to be outside pegging it out. I choose washing days by looking at forecast first. No longer have a tumble dryer. What an uawful waste of electricity to not dry outside when you are able to. Poor planet. I hang everything out including underwear of course. How strange not to. The only time I may not do that is if I was hanging out in a communal drying area in a block of flats possibly. Neighbours should only comment I would have thought if it's blowing over their garden.

Washing should be drying outside whenever possible, no self respecting native of Naples has such hang ups about their washing being visible, gives the place character My husband moans about the outside looking like Widow Twankeys when I get both airers out, I care not! "Would you prefer me shrink your golf/polo shirts in the tumble drier?" comes my riposte? I try to use that as infrequently as possible.

No, it's not common, it's traditional surely?! I always peg laundry on the line if the weather is fit to do so. We do have a dryer but it is only ever used in wet weather. The only days I never peg out are Remembrance Sunday, Christmas Day, New Years Day, or when I know there's a funeral locally.

These people that think it's beneath them to peg out the laundry really make me laugh, who do they think they are? We all make our clothes dirty, we all breath and we all fart! Get over yourselves!

One of our neighbours where we previously lived was Spanish and she'd let her washing bake dry on the line in the summer, forgetting I imagine she was in England "three hot days and a thunderstorm" that's us! she'd leave it too long, and it was wet again We were good friends, but the fence was a tad too high for me to shin over it!

The original concrete linen posts are still in our garden and stretch all the way up the original concrete path. Weather permitting, washing always goes out on the line and if there's a wind the creases get blown out (not that I iron much anyway).

Following a chance remark by someone donkey's years ago about not working on the Sabbath I don't do housework or washing on Sundays so no washing on the line then. Good to have a day in the week with a definite change of routine. Cooking the Sunday dinner and maybe gardening is usually my limit - apart from a walk sometimes.

OOoh I LOVED hanging the washing out ...but now I live in a flat with no lines allowed ...so it all has to be tumbled ...hate it ! actually bought a holiday home just so I could wash it there and hang it out !! ...however, with lockdown, that idea has been shelved for the very foreseeable future ….look with longing at the houses with washing lines !!...having said that, my sister in law once lived in a very posh house in Cobham in Surrey ...where, although she had a lovely big garden, washing was not supposed to be put out (think she did, but surreptitiously behind the garage on a low airer …….

Lovely line dried washing, though never on a Sunday.
Also the pegs must be taken off and the line stashed away when finished at least that's what my mum always said.