Hanging my knickers on the line

😳 Bloody cheek. I would have gone straight to Ann Summers, bought some crotchless knickers and hung them out with 2 pegs each!

I would have also told her it’s cold in the winter without them.

Everything goes on the line here but the undies aren't visible from the neighbour's gardens as I put them on the bit of line that is out of sight. No idea what the neighbours do though as I've never noticed what they put on their lines.

Mine go on the line, in the middle, mostly because they fit there, and the sheets only fit on the outside of the rotary line.

Neighbours have never commented (and we do talk over the wall.) I don't really notice what's on their lines, either, other than an occasional thought about them being optimistic with the weather.

Everything including pants and socks always goes out on the washing line here whenever the weather permits. I really couldn't give two shits who can see them.

I assumed it was due to not wanting everyone to know what school your kids go to but I don't worry as a) you can only see a sliver of my washing line from the street and b) 90%+ of kids round here go to the same school and they walk to school wearing said uniform.

Ours all goes out on the line - it really doesn't bother me. Our next door neighbour hangs theirs out on the line as well, I did point out to DH that NNN buys nicer, designer pants than DH.

One of my daughters has a neighbour who went to her door and asked her to stop hanging out underwear as her husband found it offensive . DD told neighbour to suggest her husband stop looking !

Do pervs nick school uniform off washing lines? I've never heard that.

We have a communal drying green so I don't put our underwear on it as I don't want all the town dogwalkers seeing it as they go by. If I had my own line in the garden I would dry everything on there,

I fine these US neighbourhood rules ridiculous. How can hanging washing out to dry make an area undesirable? I can only assume electricity is a lot cheaper there as there's no way we could afford to tumble dry everything.

Same. You can see some of my washing line from the street. I don't put any of the family's underwear or school uniforms there. 99% of people will be fine. It's the 1% of weirdos and perverts you need to be aware of.

Why though?

I hang mine out without a thought

I peg all ours out, but on the "back" section of the aider just incase nosy Rachel from two doors up is looking.

My neighbour only hangs her husband's undies out - she must hang hers inside. I've never realised until this thread!

Yes of course why do some men need taught this ? I suspect for a great many everything they know about laundry comes from ads rather than their parents 🙄. No one hangs their undies like this except for Persil ads because they want to show the big pair of clean undies ..Oh and the socks all have to match .

Hot weather like we’ve just had everything goes on the line - pants included

iffy weather I just put the non tumble dry stuff out to dry it as much as possible the rest goes in the dryer

Absolutely true. The US is not the UK. Shocker. Hanging washing out on a line hasn't been common in the US since the 1960s. I'm in my 60s and I can barely remember my mother hanging out washing when I was very young. We got a tumble dryer when I was still preschool age as did all my friends' moms. So HOAs not allowing washing lines doesn't bother us Americans as we all use the dryer. I literally have never seen someone's washing on a line except in Amish country.

Our electricity costs are among the lowest in the world, as are our natural gas costs. My dryer runs on natural gas.

This was how my neighbour had hers hanging, must have been her husband aswell😂.
quickly learned the one peg trick 😂

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I hang mine on the inside of the line, but only because husband is a teacher and we have student neighbours on both sides and I don't really want stories of my underwear going around school!

Everything goes on the line, and my neighbour does the same. I do ask my husband to use one peg for knickers though - he strings them up with two pegs at full stretch and I don't need to be reminded of acreage involved in covering my arse.

Personally, I always put the socks and underwear on a wall-mounted rack in the utility room, then the other stuff on the line outside. It's not because underwear is somehow shameful though, just that I find it quicker to pop the small stuff on the indoor rack where it doesn't need pegs, then hang the bigger items outside where there's more room. I can get two loads dry in a day this way.

YABU for calling it an octopus. Everyone KNOWS it's a Sock-topus! 😂

I feel a bit embarrassed because mine are barely there thongs.

I tend to dry them inside.

My neighbours hang some absolutely massive pants on the line, and I must admit I find it amusing. But that says something about me and my maturity, not about them.

I feel a bit embarrassed because I have a fat butt and I wear big comfy underwear. I still hang them out but hide them a little.