Do you hang your undies on the washing line?

The only reason I don't hang mine out is that they'd take up too much space on the line. Not from modesty.

I concede actually that I did once pay mild attention to my neighbours’ boxers on the line because I was curious about the laundry taxonomy: they’d washed and hung out five work shirts, four skirts, four dresses, and a single pair of boxers. Surely there must have been more boxers worn? Why did one pair of boxers desperately need washing? Are they his only pair? His lucky pair he desperately needed for an interview the following day? Who knows.

Are you my DD’s neighbour ??

I hang all mine out. Granny pants, Spanx pants, period pants, the works. I doubt anyone gives a shit about other peoples laundry ?! If they do they are one sad article.

Sorry, but I think hanging up your undergarments is incredibly undignified and slovenly. I was always taught that it was something the common neighbours would do, so I ensure that my undergarments are hung up to dry inside rather than letting them hang in the garden in the manner of discoloured bunting. There may well be men in the surrounding houses that may feel uncomfortable at the sight of your underwear. I certainly wouldn't want the men in the surrounding houses gawping at my M&S briefs!

I don't but only because we live in a park home and it has a glass porch which is hotter than hell so i put them on an airer in there and at the moment they are dry in a couple of hours. It just happens that it's easier for anyone passing to see in there than the garden. I do get sick of saying to dh that clothes dry quicker in there than outside as every time I do it he pipes up "why don't you hang them out?" My system works for me.

It's honestly never occurred to me not to put them out. They are just clothing. And if it upsets others they have the option not to look.

Communal drying area dw no
Mine yes
No expensive clothing hung outside
Communal area also a short cut.

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Ffs. I dread to think what kind of depraved men get their wife to censor their neighbour’s laundry because it sends them into a frenzy. I would be pegging out letters of the alphabet to say ‘GET A LIFE YOU SAD LITTLE PERVS’.

The devil enters your fanny through your knickers?

We have a septic tank and I’ve just started using washable bamboo wipes instead of toilet paper for wees. They go on the line too

DD1 has a neighbour who had twice asked her to stop hanging out underwear . Apparently it upsets her DH and teenage son to see female underwear .
DD told her to suggest they stop looking .

No I dry underwear inside. I'm in a flat and share a washing line with other households so I would feel funny about having my knickers and period pants on display.

When I had periods mine went on the line!

Yes…our underwear gets hung out!

That was my plan. First time I wanted them we had friends coming. I planned to whip the pads out of the machine and hide them on the radiator in my room.

Got home to find dp had gone home at lunchtime and hung them outside, on the line our friends, who had already arrived, had walked past to get to the house. They've gone on the line ever since (and the sun bleaches them for me).

(Turns out DP thought they were something to do with the animals but would have done the same thing regardless.)

Underwear socks towels go in the dryer everything else on the line

Yes on one of those octopus things

Good grief, was your friend visiting from 1872? What a thing to worry about, I've never given a moments thought to what hangs on my washing line and I've never looked at what's on my neighbours lines either.

Everything goes out here. Everyone's Knickers, period underwear and reusable pads, nappies, nappy liners, boxers.

I don't even hide them because the wife of a neighbour who backs onto us actually complained to the neighbours on all sides that her husband didn't like seeing washing on the line, especially underwear as it made him uncomfortable. Said husband actually does not care because I actually mentioned it to him in a jokey way and he was baffled - I don't think he even noticed there was washing on the line. Poor man was a topic of conversation for a week on the street WhatsApp and several neighbours thought he was a Herbert for a bit. They moved up from the south for cheap housing during COVID and were apparently horrified that people up north dry all their washing outside. Apparently it's not a thing down in Surrey 😂. Everyone has tumble dryers down there and tumble dries everything. I just told her it's what we do up here as we are all poor hence the cheap houses and they will get used to it 😁. I know everyone else surrounding them also just eye rolled and they also all openly hang all their underwear on the line. In fact most of us surrounding them did it more just for a laugh 😂.

I not only hang them outside on the whirligig but - brace yourselves - I hang them on the very outermost lines with longer items on the inside 😱😱😱

i hand them out but i am aware of many who do not.

I don't understand, do you mean she wasn't horrified and you've just made this up?

Yes, I'm happy to hang knickers out on the line. Reusable go outside too, but laid flat rather than hung, as a PP said, the sun is the best thing for them.

Everything on the line, even reusable period pads. Nobody cares!