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?

I'd coat the line in boot polish or vandal paint then carefully wrap a nice garland or bunting around it. She'll only get the polish on her if she's got the brass neck to try to take down the garland.

Yes! Boot polish or baby oil and bunting!

I'd just take her clothes down every time.

At first, fold them neatly and leave them in front of her door. If she continues, get less neat until you're flinging them in heap in the mud in front of her house.

Or they could mysteriously dissapear for a while of course.

But I would write her a letter copying in the head of the tenancy association (or whoever has authority) stating that as she insists on hanging her laundry outside your flat you are putting up decorations on the line to remind her that this is not acceptable and you have covered the line with oil so she wouldn't want to use it anyway. If you wanted washing drying outside your flat you'd use the line yourself.

If this is a housing trust/council flat, contact the neighbourhood manager asap. She does not want washing outside her flat. Tough bollocks. If the NM does not sort, can you remove your bit of the line, coat it in cooking oil or start using hers?

OR you could buy four cheap white t-shirts and get them printed with one massive letter on each.

Then string them on her line and spell out C U N T in laundry

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Just take the clothes down and throw them away. Every. Fucking. Time.

She'll stop ether because:
a) she doesn't want to lose her clothes or
b) she's run out of clothes.

Take washing down and dump it on the step outside her flat. Every time.
Whatever you do don't damage it on purpose as that would be criminal damage. It would be a terrible shame if the lid flew off your jar of beetroot or bottle of ketchup as you went past with your shopping though

I'd get a fence post so your neighbour can have her washing line without you needing to have one.

Wait for her to hang out her washing on the morning. Promptly wait 5 minutes, unpeg hers and pop up any random shit (teatowels from £1 shop etc) and leave her stuff in a plastic bag under the washing line.
If she mentions why her stuff is in the bag just say you didn't realise it was hers since you had a conversation the other day about it and assumed it belonged to someone else.
Continue to hang clothes out until she gets the hint.

Or the bunting. Bunting looks pretty :)

Promptly wait 5 minutes, unpeg hers and pop up any random shit (teatowels from £1 shop etc) and leave her stuff in a plastic bag under the washing line.

Ooooh! I like that idea chips.

It has the subtle passive-aggression I value in a response.

I'm going to add it to my Book Of Petty Revenges.

You have to walk through her washing to get out of your flat so isn't her washing kind of an obstruction to you. What if you need to remove something messy from your house, wouldn't her washing get filthy, isn't that a risk she takes leaving it there? I think she needs consequences before she gets the message, she leaves her washing there at her own risk.

My neighbour is the same...she took a picture of my washing this morning!!!

I'd personally take it all down and donate it to a clothes recycling bank. She will soon get the message ✔️

FIVE YEARS OLD ZOMBIE THREAD

Damn, Zombie thread.
Maybe @TheFlamingo can give us an update as to what happened?

Wasn't there a thread on here the other day about someone's neighbour complaining about washing being hung outside? Maybe this was the other side of the story

And..... now I am invested. Please come back OP! I need to know what happened in 2017!

The line needs to go, if you don’t want it and don’t want it used either. There will be a way to take it down (even though I totally understand it is part of your neighbour’s line). You may need to cut off your side of the line then re-knot his line to whatever it loops through, or perhaps double it up and re-string it so your neighbour has a double line.

I don’t think the council would be interested unfortunately. If she and you are council tenants you could perhaps try complaining that she is constantly treapassing 🤷‍♀️ but I doubt much will happen.

@TheFlamingo

That she's done it for 5 years and always has, I said well I'm here now and want her to stop doing it all I really got was she's always done it she wouldn't agree to not doing it

Then hang yours on her line

OH BUGGER!

I'd unpeg it all and leave it on the floor if she refused to stop doing it. Cheeky mare

Do you happen to have a jar of marmite handy OP?