People who hang out washing in heavy rain

You're v unreasonable

Get a life!😄

If anyone ever told me to take my laundry, hanging in my own garden, in, they'd get short shrift 😁!

A friend told me that he used to live next to an old lady (in a Mediterranean country). She wore traditional heavy black clothes and the only time she "washed" them was by hanging them out in heavy rain. He said the smell was unimaginable!

I don't think it was "kind" to tell her to take it in. Maybe ask if she'd forgotten it was out there, but it's not the neighbour's business to police someone else's washing. Unless it was a shared line, and she was stopping other people using it.

My neighbours leave washing out for days even when I rains for several days. Longest was the same washing out for 17 days in a row, it rained for about 14 of those days. The best part is parking is at the rear and they walk in the back gate right past the washing. I was wfh and my colleagues got quite invested in whether that washing was still outside lol!

Nosey neighbours love doing this any chance to get closer to your windows and have a peep! lol

I dont know anyone that deliberately hangs their washing out in the rain.

She has no idea if it smells, she is extrapolating because her Mum’s manky washing in a machine that wouldn’t drain smelled. She doesn’t hang her washing out anyway.

I don’t know where in earth she’s finding smelly rain, but it isn’t a real thing. Damp washing that isn’t able to dry will get musty. That isn’t the case for washing that is merely rained on.

I think she cares because where she lives washing smells bad if left out in the rain. If that's the case then it would be strange to actively peg it out when raining. I think it would only be the case if say it was dry, got rained on, then didn't dry properly, and went a bit mouldy?

Sometimes I get caught out but if it starts raining I don't rush back and get it all in. The way the weather is at the minute it soon clears up and dries out anyway. It doesn't smell either, it's just rain not actually cats and dogs.

Why do you care. What does it matter to you and rained on washing does not smell.

Never heard of actually going out in pouring rain to hang laundry.

I admire their optimism though, glass always half full.

Why do you have an opinion on what other people do with their washing? I’m genuinely baffled!

Ah, mumsnet laundry threads! It has to be because their laundry was darked on and spiders rubbed their willies on it! How else can you wash it all off!

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I do my washing rain or shine when the electricity is half price 11-4 week-ends and never hang wet washing indoors. Been rained on and never stunk

If my washing is on the line and it happens to rain and I’ve missed it or been out, I love it. It smells delicious when it’s dry and so much easier to iron and all the crappy chemicals in Brother our laundry machines are the washed away.

When it's raining I put it on a clothes horse with a rain cover, it does the job, I hate it in the house and I don't have a dryer!

Well! If it’s me you are talking about, the sun was out when I hung it up. It rained when I was out. Then I had to bath and pop baby down before I went out in the rain to get my washing in for another wash! Stop being so judgmental.

Alright I'll admit it. I'm the neighbour who leaves the laundry out in all weather.

I put some out today and I know full well it's going to rain tonight. If I remember to bring it in it's 50 / 50. If it gets rained on both me and the laundry will live, I have never considered this something to stress about, I have definitely never considered this might be something for my neighbours to stress about 😂

If it needs washing again I'll wash it again?

My neighbours don’t peg it out in rain but they do peg it out on days when rain is imminent and then leave it out for days when it’s dried and been rained on again. It does puzzle me as it’s not difficult to check the forecast and they’re in and must know its getting rained on.
Doubt very much rain makes it smell tho!

Let not the perfect be the enemy of the good. Unlike many on here, perhaps, I live in a small house without a dedicated laundry room and separate tumble dryer. So by the time I've got a few loads building up or needing drying, half my (small) kitchen is submerged in damp or dirty clothes. So if the weather is mixed, out the laundry goes as an improvement to having it in the house. An extended wet spell sees us taking loads to the corner launderette to dry in their large machines.

....and why do you care. What difference does it make to you?

Everyone knows that if you don't like the weather, you can change it by doing activities or wearing clothes that are appropriate to the weather you want.

For example, if you don't want it rain, put your washing out, the weather will avoid raining over your house until you bring your washing in.

If the summer weather is cold and claggy, because of a screaming north-westerly with temperatures at least five degrees below average, put your shorts and T-shirt on. That will magically re-align the weather patterns to bring southerly winds with 25+C temperatures and beautiful blue skies. If you feel cold, just whack the heating on, especially if someone else is paying the bill.