Drying the washing.

Ignore the silly b.

Caramme please keep drying outside your silly neighbour has obviously never had the pleasure of fresh bedding dried outdoors x

We just got new neighbours. Seems that the old one took her whirly washing line with her, because less than a week in, I have noticed the very young buyers (who look about 12 but I assume are older) have a new bright white line snaking the length of the garden co.plete with a prop.

I had a similar comment from a neighbour in our previous house. I was the only person out of 6 of us who ever put washing out. When challenged I informed her that, given the state of the planet, only extremely selfish , short-sighted people would entertain using a tumble dryer and that i was doing my bit to reduce my carbon footprint for future generations. She didn't mention it again and neither did anyone else. Let your drawers blow free ladies!

I put my washing outside for a few hours but in a part of the garden where it can’t be seen by my neighbours. I don’t think any neighbours put their washing out at all!

When I was house hunting, I didn’t buy one house as the neighbouring garden was full of washing and when I went three times over ten days, it was still full of washing and very obvious (a double height line!) from what would have been my garden. So perhaps I have confused and confusing views about washing on lines outside! 🙄

Oh Caramme! I would have been straight outside and hung up every outrageous piece of underwear I owned!! Not much nowadays sadly though! Take absolutely no notice. What a small minded person and so little going on in her own life that she needs to examine other peoples washing lines……
How can it possibly be unhygienic? Fresh air must be better than hung inside or tumble dried. Luckily I live in the country, nobody sees my line and in the winter I have an old fashioned Sheila maid to dry things on. The best thing ever! The old ways are often the best.

Just tell your neighbour you are being super energy efficient using solar and wind power .I hang everything on my line weather permitting ….yes even underwear …for goodness sake it’s clean .Don’t people every see underwear on sale in shops ?

Put it out girl, mine goes out at every opportunity, underwear an all. Even if it only partially dries, it's better for the environment, better for your purse totally free and smells fresher. Can't understand some folks and can't see
why it's a problem for her, hold your head high and your washing 🤣

My husband hangs his work clothes and towels out on the line but because it is really hard for me to get downstairs with a laundry basket I put my stuff in the dryer. I know that sounds odd but we have a downstairs laundry where he washes his things and he put in an upstairs laundry for me

Oh, I love being able to dry my washing outdoors. As I like lacy pretty underwear, I'm more than happy to peg that out as well and couldn't give a damn who sees it or if they get upset by it. Perhaps the lady who said her husband didn't like it was worried he was hoping she'd get some the same🤔. 38 dd and pround to show them off as well as my underwear😉

Well hanging out washing would be an inconvenience wouldn't it and then it would have to be taken in all taking time away from chatting on a mobile phone. Your neighbour is unreal, you are to be applauded for drying outside. Your neighbour is a rude upstart who doesn't live in the real world. Doesn't she know sunlight kills germs, whereas heat can multiply them. Keep doing what you are doing, my young neighbours hang washing out.

When I first came to Durham in the last century I had a line right across the garden. I had one child still in nappies and was admonished for hanging washing out on a Sunday! I bought a rotary drier which was not so visible but daft young woman that I was it never occurred to me that the bishop might be too busy to leg it up the tower of the cathedral every Sunday to view who was hanging out sacrilegious washing. Admittedly my garden had a lovely view of the cathedral but I should have said cleanliness is next to godliness.

I love to see my washing blowing in the wind on the line, and you can't beat the outdoor dried smell

My washing is on the line outside now. I’ve always hung my washing outside and don’t think anyone has an issue with it. Your neighbour sounds vile and she’s the one who should be ashamed. I used terry nappies when my eldest daughter was a baby and I thought a line of snowy white nappies was lovely.

It's a challenge in winter to dry washing but I put mine on the clothes drier outside on a patio, so I can move the lot inside quickly. I dry inside as well and just finish off in a drier.
One suggestion was to have a plastic tent/ greenhouse outside to put your washing in, on a dry rack. A bit of ventilation and it dries without a musty smell.
Ignore the underwear comment..just plain rude!

What is unhygienic about any clean washing being hung out I less I guess a bird sits on the washing line and has a poo, but even though I have lots of birds on the garden I can't think it has ever happened, they seem to prefer the fence as it is indubitably comfier than perching on a thin washing line.
I'm surprised that some people seem to feel the need to hide their underwear. I'd.only do that if I had a.really holey pair that i was saving to wear on a trip and discard once I'd got there. Well actually I don't care if people did see such a pair
I'm not ashamed to indicate that I don't go Commando lol.

Well here in Yorkshire have noticed more and more neighbours hanging their washing out - it's the cheapest and most environmentally friendly way of drying it = as others have said uses wind and solar power which is free

Absolutely agree - washing outside, even tatty dog towels! Before I retired I used to feel it an achievement if I got my washing on the line before I left for work at 7.45 am (and well pleased to come home to it dried and smelling lovely and fresh but hoping some kind soul would bring it in if it rained) A work colleague couldn’t understand my delight - she has never, ever hung out! She’s not lived 🤣

As I am reading this my washing including pants and socks is merrily blowing on the line. It’s fairly private unless people hang out of their windows but I don’t care anyway. If the weather is good it’s outside!

How rude I hang mine out on the line weather permitting as for underwear I'd find the biggest bloomers and write nosy neighbour on them and make sure she could see them😂

I always hang mine out if possible. What a horrible neighbour. Line dried washing always smells so good. Pay no attention. I won’t have a tumble dryer. Waste of money and energy

This is what I'd do with her opinion. Hang your washing out and savour the fresh smell of clean washing.

I love my washing out , every bit of it. Plus it’s better for the environment than a dryer. Completely ignore your ridiculous neighbours, get that washing out .x

Love it.

I hang my washing out as soon as the weather allows me to. I have never owned a dryer, because of the electric cost. I love the smell of clothes dried outside. I used to put my undies on the line until I heard my boss talking to his wife one day in the canteen. He was telling his wife that their next door neighbour had hung 14 pairs of knickers on the line. I just thought to myself, does that mean men look out of their windows and look at your underwear? I stopped putting my undies on the line for a while. Then I bought a couple of those hangers for smalls and I hung my undies on them, nearest to the kitchen door. In my head I thought, well if they want to count my undies they will 'really' have to hang out of the window. And cartoon like possibly fall out. Now at 74 I really don't care who sees em as long as they are drying outside.