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Original poster

To be appalled at the length of time my neighbour leaves her washing on the line

328 replies

Perriwinkle · 14/10/2011 17:47

A whole lineful will appear and then it'll be out for up to two weeks at a time. It can dry, get wet and dry again several times over and be slapped against a concrete wall in the wind. Items only seems to get picked in as and when they're needed and by the end of it's time out there it'll be hanging on by one peg, with longer items dragging on the grass or hitched up against the fence/wall.

There's no real reason I should care - it's not my family's washing after all - but I just can't bear to see washing (something which by definition is supposed to be clean!) being treated like that.

What are some people like?

OP posts:
UnearthlyGhoulBeastie · 14/10/2011 23:02

Hmm Yes, everything in my house is absolutely gopping. Please don't visit.

joanofarchitrave · 14/10/2011 23:09

Oh give over. It's a free country. I like the sight of a line of washing. You're my German neighbour aren't you? the one who hangs his washing in a perfect colour-coded line for 3 hours or less with all the shirts on plastic hangers, and matching red pegs? Vive le difference, as they no doubt say in Bavaria.

TeaCider · 14/10/2011 23:11

I've not got enough items of clothing to leave mine out for days. though I must confess if my washing gets soaked with rain I wash it again, I didn't realise this was weird, I've never really thought about it tbh.

Mmmm but I do love the smell of line dried washing.

loserface · 14/10/2011 23:13

YANBU OP, the students over the alley from us leave their washing out for ages and ages! I dont understand it, once its dry it should really be brought in the house. I know its nothing to do with me and I shouldn't have any reason to care but it just niggles me.

maras2 · 14/10/2011 23:15

Do you live at 9 St.***try ?If so sorry to have upset you.(Oh dear,what a shame, never mind)

TheyCallMeMimi · 14/10/2011 23:21

YANBU. Obviously you live 2 doors down from me, and thus also next door to Her, the one who hangs her washing out when it's already raining / snowing and leaves it there for an indeterminate number of days, come rain, hail, frost or snow.

sausagerolemodel · 14/10/2011 23:23
  1. O.M.G @ the washing freaks brainwashed by persil adverts.
  1. MRSA - hahahahahahahahahah (biscuit)
  1. There are more important things to life than laundry.
  1. If laundry is the most important thing in your life, then enjoy, but don't judge other people on the basis of your domestic hangups
  1. No-one ever died of dirty clothes. No one ever died of BO. People do die of e.coli so do wash your hands after having a poo.
  1. Dirt (general, soil, forest, grubby stuff) is good for kids - if you keep them too clean, they don't arm their immune systems.
  1. I wouldn't espouse this if I wasn't qualified to do so.
tigerdriverII · 14/10/2011 23:27

Only smells nice if it has been rained on, what are you on, Febreeze intravenous?

Onemorning · 14/10/2011 23:44

These people are so rank they can't spare 2 minutes to bring their washing in - god knows what their kitchen/bathroom looks like

Mum? Is that you?

yellowraincoat · 14/10/2011 23:46

Wow, just wow.

We don't even have a washing line, so I frequently just hang stuff on the garden chairs. And I forget about it. You'd go mental if you lived by me.

Ps, are you being serious?

Original poster
Perriwinkle · 14/10/2011 23:48

Make all the excuses you like but the woman who does this is dirty and unhygienic. She might not look it, all done up to the nines with a face full of make up everytime you see her, but it's not only her attitude to her laundry that gives her away - it's the fact that her car looks like the contents of her wheelie bin has been emptied out into it, and her house windows that are caked in birdcrap.

I've never been inside her house but what I can see from the outside of it makes me hope I never have to.

In my experience the sort of people who say things like "get a life", "get out more" and "life's too short for doing hoursework" are lazy arses with similar standards of hygiene.

To coin a phrase used by Dettol - FACT!

OP posts:
tigerdriverII · 14/10/2011 23:51

Are you actually sponsored by Dettol? After all this is her business, isn't it? Or is she using your washing line?

sausagerolemodel · 14/10/2011 23:54

perriwinkle, its not about excuses, its about having more important things to do than bring in the laundry when it starts to spit. FACT

Birdsgottafly · 14/10/2011 23:57

Are you sure that it is actually 'washing', i leave items around when i go camping to make it look like i'm there.

If not then YANBU, surely there must be spiders and beetles living in the clothes by the time she takes them in .

Original poster
Perriwinkle · 15/10/2011 00:00

At the end of the day Sausage it's about being CLEAN. I don't care what else I had to do, paid work outside the home or whatever it may be , I would always find time to keep myself, my children and my home clean.

OP posts:
startail · 15/10/2011 00:03

Nothing on the line tonight, but there was last night, because it was dewy by the time I remembered.
Stuff some times stays on the line in the kitchen for several days, gets worn and washed and worn again without ever being put away.

maras2 · 15/10/2011 00:13

Trip trap back under your naice clean bridge now Perri.

Morloth · 15/10/2011 00:24

Threads like this make me wonder if Xenia is actually right after all.

Very funny though, I think when I start to give a damn about the neighbour's washing, I will know that it is time to get a job.

Fifis25StottieCakes · 15/10/2011 00:31

Grin @ onemorning

usualsuspect · 15/10/2011 00:32

I like being a lazy arse though

Fifis25StottieCakes · 15/10/2011 00:35

Is this you

www.channel4.com/programmes/how-clean-is-your-house

billysolloxx · 15/10/2011 03:04

god theres some nosy judgemental bastards around stop spying on your neighbours you wierdo

runningwilde · 15/10/2011 04:32

Op - yanbu - 2 wks out is weird!

SolarPrestigeAGammon · 15/10/2011 04:36

I don't leave them out overnight for fear of spiders hiding in them

chrispackhamslovebunny · 15/10/2011 05:26

bloody hell....i couldnt leave my washing out overnight. i cant see the point in washing it if you leave it dangling about in the rain for a fortnight before you wear it quite frankly.

she needs to get a clothes horse.