How do you hang your washing on the line?

[Globules]

Because today I saw every item of clothing hanging on a coat hanger. The coat hangers were hung on the line. The coat hangers were pegged onto the line.

Underwear was hung directly onto the line in the normal way.

I'm approaching 50. I have never seen a washing line full of coathangers before.

How do you hang your washing out?

How odd. I would think the hangers would cause awful stretch marks/bumps on the shoulder area of the garment.

I do this with the things I know I will just hang straight into my wardrobe 🤷‍♀️

I hang school and work shirts on hangers to dry, makes them easier to iron. Nothing else though.

Tops from the bottom and bottoms from the top!
I’ll occasionally hang a dress out on a hanger depending on the style

It makes sense because you could fit a lot more on the line compared to pegging everything flat! But I think it would create very square/pointy shoulders

Underwear inside lines on rotary
T shirts and tops pegged from bottoms on next lines
Jeans hanging from waste bands and towels hanging on outside lines
(DD hangs her stuff other way round ( ie T shirts from top, trousers from ankles) and it makes me feel ill looking at them

Peg it directly to the line.
Except for underwear, which goes on a Octopus, pegged to the washing line.

I hang all the kids’ school shirts and sweatshirts/tshirts on a hanger on the line. Apart from ease of putting away they take up much less space. I wouldn’t put anything knitted or stretchy on hangers, though.

If you use those velvet hangers with no slots in.. then shoulders do not get misshapen if you hang by the seams..
Makes sense. I don't hang out but items that l don't put in the dryer l put on hangers and hang on curtain rail over radiator or with the windows open.

I put some things on hangers mostly sweatshirts and hoodies. There are less marks on them (as in none) than there are from pegs.

I also do tops from the bottom and bottoms from the bottom!

Tops from the bottom and bottoms from the top. If anything is on a hanger it’s put on inside out to prevent shoulder marks in fact everything is inside out to prevent fading 😬

Always on coat hangers

I don’t have a rotary line yet (recently moved) but I do have one between poles.

my garden is a wind tunnel and I have dried 3 loads today already.

I also have the octopus

I do this because everything that would normally need ironing gets a quick tumble in the dryer to remove the creases , and hung quickly on hangers. Reduced my ironing by 95%.

Yes to coat hangers, no one overly bothered by ironing here

Sock thingy for pants and socks. If stuff needs airing/ finishing dryer as it can at this time of year, I just shift the hangers into the airing cupboard

I find drying washing on the line very satisfying

I need to get out more.

@WingBingo And me. Eyeing your washing line with envy x

I always hang shirts and tops on hangers, no peg marks and no double handling, just put them on hangers out of the washing machine, hang out to dry then put away.

Perhaps it's the summer clothes that have been pushed to the back of their wardrobe and they've just put them all on the line for a bit of a waft in the fresh air.

I hang some things on hangers too, but not the whole lot!
Side note- I am interested in -obsessed with- people using dryers... who are these people and why?!

My children do 22 sports clubs per week (seriously) between them, and I work full time (and I'm a solo parent if that bears weight) and I feel that if I can manage my washing and drying without ever having call to tumble dry it, why do people have them?
I inherited a washer dryer from the previous owner of this house and we did try it once but the clothes smelt so weird compared to line/ airer drying that I've never tried again. Plus it took ages- I was expecting a quick turn around 😂

Sorry missed the point of the thread with that.

@mynamechangemyrules combi washer dryers are generally a bit crap. We also inherited one with this house and I was not impressed. A big proper tumble can have all your pants and socks or bed sheets done in half an hour (about 30p) so well worth the time and room saved hanging them out! I can’t stand crispy towels either, so I line/radiator dry them then tumble for 5 minutes to soften.

Same. One of the first things I sorted out when I moved house was another line post for two more lines.

Lakeland used to do these little hooks to use hangers on the line.

I just doubled up the line length and twisted it so that the hangers could be hung without the hooky things.

But that's when I was pushed for space. Now I have a huge line and I've already dried my bedding on it this morning. Second lot going out now.

We have the octopuses for undies and smaller items and two lengths of straight lines for everything else. We do bottoms from the top, but tops we peg on the line under the armpits (tip from a similar thread on here years ago) to prevent visible peg marks on the hemline.

One of the first things we did when we moved in here last December was put a line up.

BRILLIANT. You are living in 3024.