to hate line drying my washing

[PopcornFrenzy]

my mother was here yesterday and my washing had just finished so I popped it all in my tumble.

She said I was being silly and not using the lovely weather, she used to line dry everything when I was a child.

I replied I do 1 load of washing a week and she can mind her own business.

I hate the feeling of line dryed towels and clothes next to my skin am I weird??

Hate line dried clothes, hate the creases,hate the smell, hate the feel. I tumble everything I can and whatever I don't tumble I hang on a line in my airing cupboard.

Yes to fabric conditioner being grim, I hate the fake synthetic smells and the way the clothes end up all floppy, they always feel as though they've been worn if they have been FC'd.

I don't have a tumble drier so I will say YABU on the basis that I much prefer sticking stuff on the line in this weather than waiting two days for them to dry on the airer in our poky spare room.

Mmmm crunchy towels . . .

I love line drying clothes.

I've had a proper wash day today. It's been over 20 degrees here and really breezy and I have a 40 foot ish washing line.

I've done 6 loads today (and 11kg machine, so big loads). I've done a load of towels/blankets, all the bed linen for ours and dc's beds, all the curtains in the house, plus two huge machines of clothes (had built up a bit). All washed, 2 hours each on the line and completely dry, now also put away.

I couldn't have stood all that in the tumble, it would have taken so much longer, and made the kitchen like a greenhouse.

Ditto, violet. We're off on holiday so I've done loads more washing than usual but have had the machine on 4 times today and it's all been dry by bedtime.

Tedious hanging them out.

Tedious bringing them in.

They feel horrible and crispy and all need ironing (can get away with a lot if tumbled dry)

A bird will shit in them.

YANBU and neither am I especially as I have solar panels and am not buggering up the environment.

Scottishmummy - I'd rather spend money on tumble drying clothes, hence avoiding contact with pollen outdoors and minimising the need to iron (which hurts my hands and shoulders) than put up a clothes airer that I haven't really got the space for and end up scrubbing mould off the walls and shampooing the carpet after a week because, even with a dehumidifier running (also energy intensive) everything else in the house ends up wet.

I love line drying even in the dead of winter with snow on the ground.
My rule is if its sunny or windy then its a drying day if its both even better.

My flat is cold and damp in general so having a clothes horse of clothes drying takes about three days.

I dont own a tumble dryer but I do have a dry buddy for winter and iv got alot of washing that can't go outside.

I love the smell of line-dried clothes (don't use fabric softner)

And I really like crunchy towels.

my line dried clothes never need ironed if hung and folded right.

StupidFlanders - you are the very opposite of me. I cannot bear the smell of detergent or fabric conditioner. I find it very difficult when friends' clothes smell of Bold, Persil or whatever as I find it so repellent. I use fragrance free products and then put them on the line. They smell so fresh and real when they've been outside rather than that icky synthetic odour that most detergents convey to washing. Tumble driers are for those emergencies when the whole family has come down with a virus mid winter and the line cannot keep up with the washing.

YABU. Sunshine was invented so we could hang out washing. I love watching it bake in hot sun.

I give towels maybe 5 mins in a tumbledryer to fluff them up.

Roll on hot weekend and I'll do the bedding!

The sun is fantastic for removing any stubborn stains from white school tops or DH's white shirts...

If you hang the washing correctly you won't need to iron.

Line drying all the way here! Can't understand people needing the smell of fabric conditioner-never use it-it is so over-powering. Anything that converts electricity to heat is so bloody ineffecient-I really think people should consider the environment a bit more!

The smell of line dried clothes makes me retch.
It is weird and horrible .

I hang out washing when I can. I have a washer-dryer & use the dryer about once a year, usually to re-proof hiking jackets. I hang things on a rack in the airing cupboard during wet weather.

Has anyone used a "rotaire"? - device that covers a rotary dryer such that washing dries even in the rain and no more bird poo I'm quite tempted

Oh that's just weird. Line dried is the best. So bad for the planet and the clothes! How do u get away with doing one wash a week?!

Weird and horrible?

It's the 'fabric softener' that makes them crispy! Try without and you will notice they smell nice [not like chemicals] and they are lovely and soft.

I love line-dried washing am am like a PP in that I actively hunt out washing on a good drying day!

The smell of line-dried stuff is lovely too.

We don't have a drier, so it's either that or indoors where we don't really have space for it.

And a 'rotaire'? I need to investigate one of those as it sounds ideal! :-)

I hate tumble driers, either the clothes are still wet and have to be pegged in kitchen line anyway or left about the house on hangers or they are dry and permanently creased.

Useful for underwear, but otherwise they are shit!

Ilovenicesoap

^The smell of line dried clothes makes me retch.
It is weird and horrible .^

What is weird about the smell of fresh air? Seriously, I find that comment rather odd - does the smell of the fresh air on a mountainside bother you too?

I don't think fabric softener makes towels crunchy. I never use it and my towels are very crunchy!