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

[Perriwinkle]

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?

Sometimes I leave some bits out for several days in the hope that a faint glimmer of sunshine will fade a stain.

So if her clothes are out for weeks taking up line space she obviously has some other way of drying clothes. Maybe if shes got a load from the basket and has space she adds some from the line, washes again and dries else where. She then puts some on the line, it pisses down and voila the whole thing starts again

Columbo eat your heart out.

I would be mortified if i thought my neighbours were on mumsnet taking the piss out of my washing habits, what was out, in, clean, dried, dirty, folded ironed, put away, rained on, fell of the line, bean stained....

I must say it's been an eye opener to see that so many people seem to have the same slovenly levels of cleanliness and hygiene that my neighbour does.

Shall we move on to how often you lot consider it necessary/appropriate to clean your toilets...?

Judging from the responses here I think I can take a wild guess.

It doesnt mean somones house is dirty because they dont watch their neighbours washing thouh.

Grow up

its not about people's cleaning habits its the fact your plain nosy and need to get a life!

Fifis25StottieCakes if I could understand what you'd written I might be able to respond....

zombiebillysolloxx I'm not nosey - being nosey is going out of your way to find out things. I'm just casually observing things out of my back bedroom window.

BTW, does having a "life" preclude you from observing things that go on around you?

Sorry i must not have hit the g hard enough.

I do apologise.

Im obiously a complete tramp living in a shit tip.

Comprende.

Like i said before, grow up, get a life and leave your neighbour alone.

*obviously or can you not read that without the v

I have a flushingtoilet too........ spectacular invention that rinses after every flush! Might clean it or get the offender to do it after a pebble dash incident Leaving that would be grotty

Get a life means find something else to do which doesnt involve watching what your neighbours doing, taking the piss out of her or assuming because people dont agree with you they live in dirty houses with filthy bogs.

As I've already stated, I have plenty to do thanks in my life thanks and that extends to making observations and/or judgements as I see fit. I make no apology if that bothers you, or anyone else.

As far as "leaving my neighbour alone" goes, she hasn't the faintest idea what I think about her washing, nor will she ever know.

I dont think she would care if she knew you were bothered about it anyway.

At least the woman concerned actually does her washing so she cant be that bad.

rofl at fifi's shit tip

don't you make cat's bum faces through the nets then?

Yanbu. Tis very slack to leave washing out on the line beyond the point at which it is dry. Very slack indeed.

It is ok to leave pegs out as long as you are sure it is not going to rain before you next use them.

I want to know why everyone is assuming that op's neighbour is a woman...

Is it me? And why do you care?

I left a jumper out on my line for no more than 2 days,honest guv [hwink]and when I went to get it in,I discovered that a little bird had made a nest in the neck/shoulder area [hshock]

The plucky little chappie was obviously hoping to attract a mate to his stripey new abode and was singing quite lustily on my garden wall in the hopes of finding her [hgrin] I'd say she was holding out for something a little more stylish.

(Twas a rubbish nest,btw,about 3 little twigs and a couple of leaves)

not assuming, op says she is a woman. a woman who wears lots of make up. you know the kind, all maybelline and a sink full of dishes. do keep up!

My neighbour does the same and it doesn't appall me. Is it dirty? I never knew!

Mind you, I forgot one pair of knickers on the line on Friday, to be handed them by one of my son's party guests on Saturday morning.

Leaving wet clothes out overnight when it is going to freeze brightens whites and gets rid of stains. If I could bring myself to cart loads of washing over ice covered concrete steps I'd be doing it regularly over the winter months. Leaving something in the sun is the only thing I have found that will get tomato soup out of a martial arts kit - and if it had been particularly well splashed I may have left it a few more days!

I put out washing last thing at night if we are in a heat wave and it will be nice and dry in the morning for the next load to go in. In fact, when we have had a mini heatwave I have been known to hang out washing at 2am. It's okay, all the neighbours are odder than I am.

There was the duvet cover I left out for months because I kept forgetting we had a back garden. That can't happen now - I don't have a back garden.