to ask my neighbour why in the hell they are constantly drying black bin bags

[KeiraKnightleyActsWithHerTeeth]

My next door neighbours constantly have black bin bags on their washing line. Not in their main garden but in the side return, right next to our house. Our kitchens look into the other but we have a fence up which just about blocks us from seeing each other. However day and night for the past 2-3 months they have had black bin bags on their washing line. I wouldn't give a crap about what people have on their washing line ordinarily but it makes a right din, especially in the wind we have had recently. DS13's bedroom is at that end of the house and says he can hear them rustling really loudly all night long (which I know sounds ridiculous but they must have 4-5 bin bags rustling away at any one time).
These bin bags keep blowing up in the air too and our dogs are losing the plot about it, they don't usually bark much but 15ft glossy black apparitions springing up is sending them mad.

Every morning, when I'm in the office (we have an office annex in the garden so can see directly up their garden without effort) I can see her taking bags off the line and replacing them with new bags.

Come on, what am I missing here? Have a missed a bizarre trend? They are bizarre people as it is but I can't figure out wtf is going on here.

darked on

I have noticed that sometimes bin bags smell funny, a sort of cigarette smell. Maybe they object to this smell and wash them and then dry them on the line. Still a peculiar thing to do though.

Maybe it's a bin bag fetish

Laughing so much at the darked on bedding and dementors

Could you not sneak over and replace them with white swing bin liners in a reverse darked on simulation? Then you could start the conversation by explaining they've been lighted on and then she'll have to explain why they need to be black bags.

It's a sex thing.

waiting for Tuesday...

If they already have privacy screens & so on id bet its something to do with that. It doesnt sound like they like you much what with telling the neighbours about your morrisons or whatever

Roll on tomo

Blacking out cracks in their loft for growing illegal vegetation? Or covering the teeny germinating plants until they're ready for the light?
My first thought was also something to do with growing cannabis.

Perhaps they think that if they throw weed stinking bin bags into the normal rubbish then maybe someone would notice and realise that they are growing weed.

Some people drive around late at night throwing away used plastic into road side bins to alleviate this problem.

Clutching at straws, but you can wash soiled washing in a loosely tied carrier bag. It means you don't have to touch it, so it makes the job less unpleasant.

On the other hand, if they are only drying the bin bags and not any clothes that theory doesn't really work. Still good enough for a place mark eh?

Nowt so queer as folk.

blatant place mark

Cannabis factory.
Poor dog ☹️

Can someone please link to the extreme money saving idea thread mentioned above - I cannot find it and love strange threads.

Could they be be environmentally conscious maybe?

How bizarre!
I vote sploshers.

I reckon they're for drying 'personal' items. Inside the black bag lining is something else pinned to the line-some underwear or kink toy that needs to be air dried & they don't want the neighbour seeing...
Corsets don't tumble dry...😜

Maybe they have little ones who wee on the bed at night whilst being trained to give up nappies and maybe it's their way of protecting the mattress ... ? So put it out to air dry every day ? It's bizarre , but I don't think they could be using for rubbish and re using it ... more likely to be used for protection of some kind or to scare birds away like one of the ladies mentioned. Either way I would politely ask what the hell is up with the new "trend" . Lee us posted

Keep*

Um.. using the bags as rain coats maybe?

Seen as we're wanting to ask our neighbours...

Google ' sploshing'

DON'T GOOGLE SPLOSHING IF AT WORK!!!