Neighbours washing line

[TheFlamingo]

I live in a flat, each flat has a it's own washing line outside of the front door, there are 5 flats on my floor, the neighbour 3 doors down keeps hanging her washing up outside my house, so she's choosing not to use hers and to pass 2 other neighbours to hang it on my line!! I've spoken to her about it but she said she's lived her for 5 years and has always done it, and basically is going to continue to do it, I don't like having washing hanging up outside my front door so I don't use it for mine so I sure don't want to have to see others washing hanging up, also cos of the way the lines are it means you have to literally walk through the washing to get in and out, she hangs her husbands pants outside my door and all sorts! Wibu to report her to the council and would they do anything?? Wwyd?

Just take it down. Every time. And leave it in a pile outside her door. Literally every time.

Slimthistime, from the OP...

I've spoken to her about it but she said she's lived her for 5 years and has always done it, and basically is going to continue to do it

Hang any old crap on your line and just leave it there so she has no space to use it

Hang sheets and duvet covers outside hers so she can't get out the door

Start using it.

Buy some cheap but racy knickers and hang them on the line outside her house.

Take hers down and put wet in bin bag. Put some sheets or duvets out on your line. If she says anything say you needed to use your line. Rinse and repeat until the antisocial neighbour gets it into her head you won't put up with it. Important to do it when washing is wet so she is wasting her own time as things aren't dry and she has to rehang them.

Take her washing down and hang it over her line .

As PP have said ask her not to do it again and let her know you will be removing it in future. Then next time she does it put it all in a binbag (make sure it's still very wet or you will just be helping her do her laundry) and leave it outside her front door. Repeat until she fucks off.

Years ago my mum wondered why her washing line seemed to be sagging. She found out when she had time off work and caught her we neighbour walking into her very private garden and hanging out her washing ( sheets and heavy curtains) on my mums washing line!

I'd hang horrible old underwear on her line!

I would do the bunting ( or throw it on her doorstep)

Buy as many garish pairs of y fronts and old bloomers as you can find and hand them up on her line, aliens love underpants style.

Allow a child with a felt tip pen loose in the area?

Buy some hanging baskets and bird feeders and hang them on your line. They will take seconds to remove when you hang your washing up.

If you don't want to use your line for your clothes fill it up with sheets/towels/cloths so she can't hang her husband's underwear outside your front door (yuck).

I'd take the line down if you don't use it! There is a block of flats near here with a similar layout (line beside front door) so I know what you mean, how odd!!

If you're not going to use the line, and you've told her to stop then I'd rub something on it like dirt or coal or coloured chalk - something that'll mark the stuff on the line but will wash off.

Or I'd take the wet washing off EVERY TIME and put it into my house so she'd have to collect it from me.

I'm quite territorial though.

Devil's advocate here - if the space is actually communal, is the washing line actually 'yours'? Isn't it just that there are a selection of washing lines for communal use, and conventionally people use their nearest line, but there's nothing to stop them using another? As one poster suggested, yours might get more sun, and therefore dry the washing better. And if you don't use it...
It's not in a private garden, see, which would obviously be different. I think you need to actually know if there are rights/rules, before crying foul.

Put your own washing on it until she gets fed up and adopts a new routine.

Do a big load of washing and put it on your line and her line.

The only ways to sort it, if she won't engage in discussion or respond to a request, are:

• report to council (but I don't know if they can/would do anything)

• take down the line (but I get your point about it being your nieghbour's too; having said that, is there any way of just cutting or folding or tying it so it doesn't reach into your space?

• direct action: take off her washing every time she does it and dump it outside her house. Personally I'd reinforce this by always having my things hanging on the line.

She's a cheeky bitch but since you don't want to use the line anyway that means it will be easier to piss her off without risk to your own clothes, I would start with bird seed on and under her clothes, if that doesn't work you should invest in a hose or very messy chocolate in little hands, you could have fun with this

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