Washing on lines in the rain.

Imagine being this overly involved in your neighbours washing 😂😂😂

Rain doesn't make your washing stink FGS.

But what if you're out?

This will blow your mind OP, if I need to leave early in the morning I sometimes hang my washing out before I go to bed even if it's a bit drizzly. 😯 minus pants however, as there is a knicker stealer in the village. If washing is nearly dry I would get it in if it started raining but otherwise I would leave it out, I don't have room to hang masses of wet washing indoors and it is far more likely to smell musty drying indoors than out btw.

I’m not saying you are, but you sound like one of these insufferable people who likes to be control of everything/never makes mistakes/despises others who aren’t the same as you. Really, op…life’s too short/don’t sweat the small stuff/you do you…etc!

Why will it stink? Of what? Fresh air and...rain?

I second this, your post is ridiculous

I once put my washing out and it ended up raining all day. I just left it. Next day weather was good and it dried . It still smelt like washing powder /comfort

This is the second washing line thread I’ve seen recently where the OP was angry about their neighbour’s laundry habits.

Some of us have tumble dryers.

Some of us don’t care if the laundry gets a bit of rain on (it might be something like dog bedding, and mine always stinks regardless of how often I wash because the dog is always going out and getting muddy.)

Some of us have lives.

Sometimes it happens.

We love drying the washing outside so we do tend to chance pegging out washing on a showery day. On occasion we either don't notice the rain or we go out with the dog. Leaving washing out in the rain doesn't make someone a stupid person.

Rain dampened washing can be just hung on a maiden; it shouldn't stink or be dirty unless your neighbour has a garden fire but that doesn't generally happen on a rainy day anyway. And if you wipe your washing line periodically with a piece of wet kitchen roll you don't get black marks from pegs either.

We live in a terrace and there used to be a lovely elderly couple next door. We had a code that when we both had washing out the first one who noticed it was raining would lightly tap on the neighbours back window with a garden cane. It worked for years but the couple who live there now never put washing out. They probably think I'm stupid for hanging stuff out when it might rain...🙄

How many people these days leave their gates open though.

Or in our houses you couldn’t even get into our garden unless you where jumping over the fence or came in via the house/garage or doored ally way between the house and outbuildings.

@funinthesun19

Me too. Op I'm sorry if our 'stupidness' bothers you.

I don't check the weather forecast.
I won't be bringing my now wet washing in. I'll just wait for it to dry again.
As a single parent to 2 DC with SEN needs I am run ragged most of the time (including yesterday) and the small things that clearly bother you don't even register with other people who have more important things going on.

I couldn’t give a hoot about someone else’s washing.

I don’t re wash mine. I wait till it dries. It doesn’t stink it’s outside in the fresh air and I live next to the sea and the rain is lovely

I regularly put laundry outside and then get caught out when it rains. That's because I get busy doing other things (e.g. hoovering) and don't notice that it has started raining. By the time I do notice, the clothes are soaked, so I figure I may as well leave them there and let them dry in their own time. The laundry never smells though. And the weather forecast isn't 100% accurate which means the rain which wasn't forecast until 4 o'clock starts at 2 o'clock instead. I would be a bit concerned about my neighbours' wellbeing if I thought they were obsessing about my laundry.

I'm obviously in the minority, but I would bring it in and re wash.....I honestly haven't noticed what my neighbours do with theirs though.

As a side note - intetesting that being rained on is preferable to being darked on as far as mumsnet is concerned. Judging by this thread.

It used to be the done thing to bring in a neighbour's washing if it had dried and rain was imminent when I was young. A sad sign of the times that we judge instead of helping out.

If I’ve been out and it’s been raining, I won’t be in any rush to bring my wet washing in when I get home. It can stay there.

It rained overnight last night and I forgot to take my dry washing in yesterday, so it’s wet again now. Do you think I went outside and brought it in this morning? Nope. Do you think I will be bringing it in at any point today? Probably not.

Weird

I can't imagine ever being boring enough to give a fuck what my neighbours were doing with regards to their laundry.

We had thunderstorms predicted yesterday and it was hot and sunny and I dried two lots of laundry.

OP I can see the thread is not going very well for you 😂

It's often worth taking the chance that it will dry before the rain starts (or start to dry and then can bring in to finish it).

Unless it gets sopping wet and doesn't dry properly, it doesn't get stinky. If it did get sopping wet, I'd give it a spin or rinse and spin and all would be well. Not had trouble with dirty peg marks - if yours have gone rusty maybe give them a clean or buy some new ones?

If the clothes are already wet, no point bringing them in now, May as well wait for them to dry a bit...

I don't think the people whose laundry got a bit wet again are the stupid ones, OP....

I also bring mine in overnight in the uk- except for hot, dry high summer- just in case. I've found it gets damp otherwise. I leave it out when we're in southern Europe unless rain is actually forecast though.

@Skyrainlight we had 8 hours of no stop storms yesterday afternoon and it was still thundering when we went to bed. It was the loudest thunder I’ve heard for a very long time. Tomorrow there’s a yellow weather warning for rain here until Monday. Thankfully I got all my washing done in the dry window on Saturday morning,

Many years ago I used to think my neighbours were strange for having their washing out in the rain. Now I do it sometimes, in the hope that it will dry eventually, because it still smells fresher if dried outdoors than indoors. At the time I might have commented my surprise to family and friends in an amused way, but I never would have thought of going on an online forum to insult them.