Drying the washing.

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 😂😂

Another one here who hangs all my washing out, weather permitting.
A pity one can usually not get out the required retorts, being too gobsmacked that a neighbour could be so rude. Being a bit if a rebel where my rights are concerned, I would have a line if washing out every day, including my undies - even if they were old clothes and hadn't actually been washed!! Where do these sanctimonious di-gooders come from?

How very rude of her. I nearly always hang my washing out, weather permitting. I personally don't like the dryers with several lines. mine is one line across the garden with everything on display. If someone doesn't like what is on it then they shouldn't be looking into my garden !!

I think it's insane to suggest it's wrong or unhygienic to hang your washing outside! We live in a flat and our lease states that we're not allowed to hang washing on the balcony. I think this is a hangover from the idea that only council tenants hang everything out on balconies which in itself is ridiculous.

I get round this by having a low drying rack behind the wall, or by laying larger items like duvet covers out over the table and chairs. Towels dry pretty well over chairs too.

I don't think that it's possible to dry a superking duvet cover in a tumble dryer without having a long ironing job afterwards, but a sun-dried duvet is crease-free enough for me.

I think that I'll put hooks in the walls of the balcony when the weather gets hot and claim that the hanging sheets are hanging in front of the windows to keep the room cool!

Oh gosh. Hang it out with pride. Sunlight is anti bacterial. Nothing like a good drying day. It raises my spirits. Need to get out more

Before completely cutting her off I’d have to ask her what she thinks is unhygienic about hanging washing outdoors!

Well I would be taking the advice of some other posters and buying (second hand) and putting out some really embarassing items - very big bloomers, split crotch panties or a few pairs of long johns!

But then I am wicked that way.

No neighbour tells me what to do.

Take no notice, if she has nothing better to do than look at clean washing she's in need of a life, my friend has a neighbour like that, there's always one up themselves in every street, the best laugh my Friend had was when they housed a family in the street with lots of kids, they put a clothes horse out the front garden full of nice clean washing, and still do

I would ignore her as she is probably a generally unfriendly, opinionated person.
Hanging washing on garden lines is as popular as ever it was - well round here it is anyway - and we have a mix of neighbours young and older.

What is wrong with people these days. So very rude! Put your washing out it’s the best thing ever for the environment and freshness never mind helping with your bills. I think sometimes it’s laziness anyway, it’s probably easier to put them in a dryer with very little ironing needed.
I got a full line dry yesterday it felt great.

Our late teen granddaughter berates her Dad for using a heated airer rather than a line. So no, drying washing outside isn’t just for mature folk.

Ours goes outside when the weather permits, always has. My ma in law back in the early 1970’s often did a sneaky wash on a Sunday to be hung out on Monday morning. I say sneaky because while laundry on a Sunday was frowned upon in her village there was an unofficial competition on Monday mornings to get the laundry out first and no, she didn’t always make it . .

I hang out washing, and I do not hide my underwear.
As for the nosey neighbour, she would be told if she did not look, she would not be offended.
Your neighbour sounds pretentious, ignorant and extremely stupid.

Can’t speak for North Cheshire but here in West Cheshire lots of us hang our washing out. The air here is cleaner than where we used to live in London but I always hung my washing out there.It’s a far more environmentally conscious as well as an economic way to dry washing and also there are clothes that I never tumble dry.I find it easier to iron sheets etc that have been line dried as they don’t get so creased.

Yes, my daughter hangs hers out. She's just had her 30th birthday.

Patsy70

No, definitely not an ‘old ladies’ thing. My daughter and daughter in law have always hung washing outside, since they were in their 20s, including a variety of underwear! 😉
Remember the line of terry towelling nappies blowing in the breeze?

I was thinking more of people in their 20s or 30s now, a completely different generation. I'm sure some youngsters will hang washing out but maybe not the majority?

I very rarely hang out my washing. I only do so in very warm settled weather. As I’m out for at least part of every day I don’t want to risk it getting wet.

Another one here who hangs her washing out whenever the weather allows including all the underwear.
My neighbour and I positively love the first time our bedding and towels are dried in the first sunshine of the year.

Beechnut

I just had to sing that Doodle 🤣🤣

Don't encourage him

No, definitely not an ‘old ladies’ thing. My daughter and daughter in law have always hung washing outside, since they were in their 20s, including a variety of underwear! 😉
Remember the line of terry towelling nappies blowing in the breeze?

Would teller to shut her mouth

Tell your nosy neighbour to get a life! She must be extremely thick if she thinks hanging washing outside is unhygenic. We live next door but one to the Vicarage. One day my lovely white washing was out and the Vicar decided to burn some noxious material in his back garden. It was a Sunday afternoon and I had to get it as it was covered with black spots. My husband (atheist) went round there and complained that he was smoking us out (it was indoors too!) . Vicar said " oh, I didn't think people washed clothes on a Sunday". I cannot repeat my husband's reply, suffice to say it was out out immediately and he never did it again. Stay strong, stick two fingers up to the neighbour and hang your stuff out. !!

Everything goes out, knickers and all, no one else’s business
My daughter hangs all her washing out so not sure it’s an ‘old lady’ thing

I have a washing line across my garden. Unfortunately we have shared pedestrian access with our neighbours and I really don't like blocking the pathway with sheets, duvet covers and DH's trousers etc.
I have just purchased a rotary washing line that I can fold up when I'm not using it. I'm waiting for my son in law to erect it for me.

I'd be inclined to hang my washing out at every possible opportunity - just to annoy her. What a damned cheek!

Still, right now it's on an airer in the garage (drizzly here), in winter it's in the little laundry room - where I run a dehumidifier (cheaper than a tumble drier) - and in summer, in the garden under a pergola. I'm wary of getting too much pollen on it, though, as I have hay fever. The sunshine kills many germs.

There's always the odd neighbour - or two who seem to think that they own the rest of the street as well. I ignore them when possible. In my case, there's an ongoing squabble about who parks outside my house. I refuse to comment or be involved. I don't have a car but do have a drive for visitors - so couldn't care less.

I just had to sing that Doodle 🤣🤣