Drying the washing.

suzikyoo

Although our personal items are hung on a brilliant radiator rack on the upstairs landing, the rest all goes outside on the line, weather permitting. (This thread reminds me of the old saying: 'If it suits the wearer, b*gg*r the starer' !!)

Love the quote Suzi! I am, defiantly, off to hang out my second wash of the day!

How rude, I try to save my washing for a dry day so I can hang it - undies and all. Certainly not unhygienic, wherever did she get that idea.
We had new neighbours in a previous house - 2 adults, 3 children. I could hear her tumble drier in the garage, going full pelt during a lovely summer. The next year a twirly drier appeared in the garden - I guess the electric bill concentrated their minds.

Might I suggest a visit t Ann Summers, buy some brightly coloured flimsy underwear and some crotch less pants and proudly hang them on your line Caramme as bold as you dare !

Sorry if already mentioned but solar energy not only dries but kills bugs....and bleaches the whites.

Although our personal items are hung on a brilliant radiator rack on the upstairs landing, the rest all goes outside on the line, weather permitting. (This thread reminds me of the old saying: 'If it suits the wearer, b*gg*r the starer' !!)

The woman is obviously a complete idiot. Just humour her. She's probably not dangerous.

Is your neighbour a millennial because they don’t have the same traditions as older people. I can’t wait to get my washing out on the line, fresh air and sunshine all free instead of electric guzzling tumble dryer.

She is an ignorant and stupid woman. Take no notice and continue to put your lovely clean clothes to dry in the fresh air and bring them in smelling lovely and your towels all fluffy and sweet. As others have said she is totally wrong environmentally and also on the cash front too. If she doesnt like looking at clean stuff, then tough , let her look the other way!! I am of the old school and always put my stuff out and even if there is a shower and I have to finish stuff off inside you cannot beat an extra rainwater rinse. Just ignore her!!

Lots of newbuilds dont allow washing to be hung out .some here have little fenced off areas for washing to keep it out of sight .
It apparently lowers the tone of a neighbourhood!As far as I can see many of the new owners are ignoring it and putting up whirlies .

cc I'm a rather generously proportioned woman and wouldn't hesitate to hang out a few of my large-cupped lacy bras in this situation!

Agreed!

I dry most everything in a tumble dryer, apart from bras and knickers on hangers in closet/cupboard - but in this instance I'd hang out my enormous pretty lacey bras and tiny pretty lacey knickers.

I don't prefer to be lectured, I silently show what I think.

I do notice that a lot of younger people do not use the garden line. Had a dryer years ago, which was handy for sheets, towels cottons, but anything else would shrink.

What a silly, and rude, woman. Wind and solar power are the best way of drying clothes - does she seriously think that using a tumble dryer is better? I'll add ignorant to that list of insults too. I must add here that a new village under creation along the lines of Poundbury, has evidently announced that inhabitants have been asked not to put washing out. Given the King's pioneering views on global warming, it's remarkable that he is involved in such a retrograde idea.
How lucky for you that she hasn't spoken since - likely a timely escape from more nonsense.

Always hang washing out if the weather is good. So do the neighbours both sides and one of them is in her 30's. As a child I remember my mum bringing in flat sheets which had frozen and which she said was good for whitening them. I really can't see how but I have noticed sometimes that the sunlight will fade a stain on a towel or tea towel. I don't hide my undies either, I don't think they would disturb my male neighbours! I had a friend years ago whose neighbour told her she'd noticed that she didn't peg socks out in pairs!

Granmarderby that did make me smile I’m a DD cup also but I do put mine out lol I am surrounded by a brick wall round my garden but to be honest I’d still put my washing out to dry regardless, I don’t really interfere with others do and they don’t to me either.

I think I would have needed to wash extra knix, because I would have wet myself laughing at her! Ignore the silly cow, and as others have suggested, get some saucy and/or enormous undergarments out there for her enjoyment!

How rude of your neighbour, I love hanging my washing outside . I have a rotary dryer and I’ve always hung my undies out . It’s never occurred to me not to until now due to this post 🤔. However my washing isn’t overlooked unless my neighbours are looking out their upstairs windows .
I have a pulley dryer in my utility room for wet days and I do use my tumble dryer for towels as it does get them softer and fluffier.
One point about the younger generation is that if you’re working , you might not have time to put your washing out before work and you need to be sure the weather will be dry. Also not everyone has a garden , my DD doesn’t

Well I'm absolutely flabbergasted! I love pegging my washing out, it smells and feels so much better. Unhygienic?? Well what utter nonsense. You keep on drying your washing outside as much as you can. As for her not speaking I'd look on that as a bonus!

In darkest Hampshire here, climate change really does seem to have arrived
Today it is drizzling again.... the garden is a quagmire again We are also in an ice pocket so all bloomers will be stiff as flags on frosty days. Forgotten about the birds, squirrels, insects and their activities too

Still no neighbours to object ..... I am not too sure when I could have last put the line out
Possibly last summer

I can cut down on my own washing but hospital staff seem to need to change my husband's clothing...... woollens and all almost daily
I have taken to folding those items that still look usable and sending them back for him to wear again as he would at home
How on earth do people find enough room to hang stuff to dryindoors?

My incompetence led me to dispense with my tumble drier years ago Too many garments only fit for a large doll after its use

I have become an expert at sniffing at, cursorily examining and refolding items

Saves water and soap powder too

I wonder what my neighbours think of me. For many years, I’ve noticed I’m the only one who puts washing out but it wasn’t always this way. I like the suggestion to hang out a big pair of bloomers! I’m tempted to get my sewing machine as I’ve some lovely purple spotted fabric, itching to be used!

get it outside, better for your purse and the planet, i dry my underwear outside, put bunch up ,my knickers to make them look smaller,

Caramme, I too put my washing out on the line when I can. You are right to dry it outside. From an environmental point of it saves you money and you are not polluting the atmosphere. Using electricity produces emissions to the atmosphere albeit not in your immediate vicinity. Therefore, you are helping reduce your carbon footprint and reducing the impact on the climate which is such a huge topic just now. On top of that, washing dried outside smells fantastic. On really sunny days I always feel it smells of sunshine. Perhaps you should point that out to her if she ever raises the topic again.

Mine goes out on the line, so do most of our neighbours

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kittylester

I dry mine on a pulley rail in the utility room as our garden isn't huge but please do hang your washing out.

In our last house, our lovely next door neighbour asked if I would ming not hanging underwear out as 'it upset' her husband.

This made me pmsl. Her husband must be living in the dark ages. Buy some really sexy knickers and hang them outside. That’ll either shut him up or give him a heart attack 😂😂

I'm a rather generously proportioned woman and wouldn't hesitate to hang out a few of my large-cupped lacy bras in this situation!

“Hang” not “hand”!

Our neighbours are in their fifties and hand their washing out. No problem. I spin mine on fast speed and then hang to dry. Towels do get tumble dried though. With the current weather my clothes are drying in the conservatory!