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?

I use coat hangers for items which are normally hung on a hanger in the wardrobe. That’s how my Mum did it, so I just followed along.
Everything else is hung by person, then towels and sheets and blankets are on the outside. Oh and I colour co-ordinate the pegs. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I hang tops by the bottom and bottoms by the top.

If I am organised enough, I hang school/work shirts on hangers and then peg the hanger.

I hang socks in pairs so they can be balled as they come off the line. Otherwise nobody wants to pair them. It's easy to sort them as you hang - just leave them in the basket until you spot a pair, and then hang the rest in pairs once you get to the bottom of the basket.

Sorry @EventuallyDecluttered wasn’t meaning to be smug. I can understand the idea that some situations may require them, interested in those situations where they are used despite no limitations. I lived for 18 years with no outside space and arranged weird drying situations as I couldn’t afford a tumble dryer. Now I’m just so pleased to have an outdoor line I’m a bit obsessed, sorry. Love the fresh smell and hang outside until my fingers can’t take the cold.

I like the idea of having solar panels, one day I’d like that and then I could try a proper tumble dryer that doesn’t smell like burning metal 😂

If it's going on a hanger later, it dries on one now.

Otherwise socktopus for pants, socks and bras. Everything else bottoms from the top and tops from the bottom.

There's nowhere in the garden to put a line that isn't likely to get bird shit on it, so I've got an airer on wheels that I wheel onto the patio in good weather and keep in front of the draughty patio windows otherwise.

That's Ok @mynamechangemyrules . I think despite COL there are a lot of people still comfortably off enough to use one because it's quicker and easier than line drying. We've had three over 20 years (two cheap vented ones and one new heat pump) and never had a burning smell, you don't get the line dried fragrance admittedly but they are far quicker than any other means of drying and running costs are pretty low with a heat pump.