Drying the washing.

Thank you all. I feel heartened and determined to return to using my washing line. I might even risk the underwear. For now though it’s started to rain so have had to bring it all indoors.

I have always hung my washing out given half decent weather. If I had the neighbour who had the husband who got upset I would just have to find some really "weird" underwear from somewhere to randomly hang out in full view regularly when I didn't need my lines for proper washing. I'm just a horrible person at times

Ridiculous!

And why shouldn’t it be hung out front if it’s your own space?

We have a car port and on a rainy wash day my washing is hung under it to give the clothes a bit of a blow.

Hope the postman isn’t traumatised if he has to pass my DH’s underpants, or my knickers!

But I do try and put them at a more discreet angle than say the towels or pillowcases.

How extremely rude and ignorant of your neighbour. Please don’t let your crass remarks influence you.

You have a perfect right to hang anything you want to on your line. Weather permitting like others my washing goes out all the year round, as does that of my neighbours.

On a lighter note, as a newly married I used to live next to a lady in her fifties of, shall we say, more than ample proportions. Every wash day she hung out the same teeniest tiniest lace bra and pants!

Growing up everyone in our road would hang their washing out and if it rained or there was a bonfire we would bring in our neighbours’ washing. I don’t think that would be acceptable nowadays.

Ignore that silly and rude neighbour, Caramme, and continue to hang out your washing weather permitting.
There’s nothing comparable to the smell of freshly dried washing dried outdoors. As for unhygienic? 🤷‍♀️. Well, I can only imagine she might be thinking if it gets soiled by a passing bird! Annoying, yes, but if that happens, the item is washed again. Simples.
No, you hang out your washing. 😁

Tell your neighbour to look the other way if that affronts her! What a stupid woman, I can only assume she and her husband don’t wear underwear?
I love the scent of laundry dried outside, there’s nothing nicer.

Weather permitting I have always hung out my washing and will continue to do so. Your neighbour sounds like an idiot. I avoid those.

How rude of your neighbour! I’m originally from the North East and for my Grandma, Monday was washing day. However she used to say that she wouldn’t hang it out too early in case people thought she’d washed it on a Sunday which was frowned on. Thank goodness times have changed!

What a daft, prissy, prudish attitude! Hyacinth Bucket on speed, IMO.

Reminds me of comments from my FiL’s new neighbours, after he moved into a newish house years ago now. One, hanging his washing out in the garden wasn’t ‘nice’, and two, he needed net curtains at his front windows - they didn’t look ‘nice’ otherwise. They actually tried to tell him that these were compulsory!!
I’m glad to say he blithely ignored the prudish old bags.

I have two washing lines and make full use of them in good weather. I have a small tumble drier but only ever use it if I’m desperate for towels as it seems to shrink things, and it’s not eco-friendly.

I recently tried to buy clothes pegs in Wilko and the young shop assistant was incredulous - she asked me what on earth I needed them for in this day and age! Undaunted, I did manage to track some down though.

I’ve discovered one of my Victorian ancestors was an east-end “laundress”, so I think it’s in the genes. I love seeing my washing blowing in the breeze.

Chestnut, why should it not be acceptable to hang out washing in the front garden? For some people it's the only garden they have! Agree that this stupid and rude neighbour is trying to get involved in something that is none of her business.

I hang mine out every time when I can - if it isn't wet or too icy to get safely along the path to the whirly - and hang underwear out with the rest. Like Shelflife I enjoy doing washing more than other household jobs, and hanging it out is one of the best bits.

Such nonsense. Just do your own thing. I would have asked her if she had always been this rude or was it a new acquisition.

There may be rules around washing if you live in a flat with balconies or a communal garden, and of course it's not acceptable to hang washing in the front garden, but in your own garden you are free to do as you wish. It is absolutely none of her business.

I’d buy the biggest pair of bloomers and run them up a flag post!

Seriously though, very rude and uncalled for. I wonder if she’s rubbed other neighbours up the wrong way too.

How very bloody rude of her.I always hang my washing out and anybody who said anything against it would get short shrift from me..

Ha ha! Caramme. Yes I have the “overtheshoulderboulderholder” size, still I don’t give a hoot😊

I don’t put my underwear out because I am a DD cup. A bit of wind and they’d be off across the Cheshire plain like a couple of barrage balloons. Since I still have a condenser boiler and an airing cupboard I just lob them in there.

Caramme your new neighbour in her newly built house is a freak
Believe me there is nothing finer than freshly washed laundry from the line both for you and the environment. I Can’t wait for those drying days to arrive.😀

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kittylester Oooooh! So glad that wasn’t my neighbour😤, are you sure it was her husband that got upset by your washing?….just a thought.

biglouis

I would probably have gone nuclear and told her to mind her own bl***y business. I hate whining neighbours.

Ha ha! I had loads of really clever answers for her, but only after I was back in my own sitting room. Too late.

Whatever next! I hang all my washing out on a good day, underwear as well.
Do some people avoid the underwear section of M&S? Do they buy underwear with their eyes shut? I’d be very worried if my DH said the sight of underwear upset him.
Not only are tumble dryers bad for the environment they also expel microplastics into our water and eventually into everyone’s body. ( I know I’ve mentioned this before)
I have a very fast spin washing machine which leaves the washing damp and put on the indoor airer overnight. Even jumpers dry overnight.

Is she has recently moved in then its not for her to comment on what the established residents do. I would very quickly have reminded her of her place in the pecking order.

Ours goes outside on an airer, underwear on full display, we can do what we like in our garden, silly woman.

Blimey 😄😄. It would never occur to me to “hide” my underwear.

Neither does it occur to me to notice whether and what a neighbour has hung out on their line.

Your neighbor is rude and ignorant.
I hang everything out whenever I can, I love the smell of it when it’s been outside.
My washing line isn’t visible to anyone, but everything goes on, knickers, bras, the lot.
If you ask me your neighbor is too idle to peg it out.