I've just hung my washing out on the line

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And the heavens have opened.

I'm not getting it in, as it can't get any wetter.

BIL is here and he's TWITCHING. He's asked us several times if we're sure we want to leave it. And keeps commenting that 'ooh it's really coming down now' and looking out at the garden.

I'm just glad he wasn't here at 7am when I got the darked on loads in...

I thought people who stressed about this kind of thing were just invented on MN. I didn't realise actual adults feel the need to rescue wet washing from the rain, or dry washing from the dark.

Aibu?

It's a bit trampy

Where do you live where washing smells fresher hung out than tumbled? Mine smells of landfill/ other people's BBQs and bonfires and air.

I feel that rain water is cleaner than tap water, so I would never dream of re-washing.
Maybe it depends where you live.
I know rain in the city can trap soot, pollutants and exhaust fumes as it falls.
I live in rural Scotland, the rain is very clean, as anyone will know who has drunk water from a rocky stream at the top of a Scottish Mountain.

I also leave it out. It smells lovely when it's had the rain then dried smell.

Also in Scotland.

I rehash as I don't like the rained on smell. Due to allergies I can only use unscented powder. The smell of rain and dark on the washing is noticeable.

I'm in Scotland too!

I would bring in washing that I thought was dried

Just put out washing...probably not

Where do you live where washing smells fresher hung out than tumbled?

It does here...I will quite often put sheets out on a cold damp day in the winter for the outside fresh smell

I wouldn't leave washing out for days, especially dark clothes.
The sun bleaches colours and dark clothes terribly.
Fine if you are trying to get a stain out of something white, but for that reason I always hang dark clothes inside out on the line ( also assists with drying because of pockets etc.

i just leave my washing out when it rains. Tomorrow or the next day it will be sunny and it will dry then. It smells even better when it's been rained on and dried in the sun.

The alternative is to bring it in and put the central heating on, which is not a good option in the summer. I think some people create unnecessary work for themselves.

Much, much less hassle to stick it all on a clothes horse indoors in this weather - it'll be dry by the end of the day but you could leave it there for a few days if you really can't be arsed to sort it.

I've never rewatches washing that's been rained on. My mum is disgraced, but it's clean water from the sky.

I'm just glad he wasn't here at 7am when I got the darked on loads in . . .

Ewww the rain on clothes stink when it's dry.
If it's been left out. I have to re wash them.

I brought in load one just before it rained. Load 2 remains outside. Load 3 has been hung up inside.

We don't seem to have had a weekend with good drying weather for ages...

How does it smell different if it's been out at night ? Wtf is darked on ? Never heard such a pile of rubbish? My washing is out and i often put washing out on a night and bring it in dry in morning . Never heard of darked on or noticed a different smell ! Rural Northumberland

'darked on' seems to me to be made up MN bullshit Farmerswife

I leave mine out in London without a second's thought - day or night.

Darked on . lollllll

Just put a wash on and hoping the sun stays shining

If it was drizzling I'd leave it. Full on rain I'd get it in and just stick it in the dryer or on the airer. I would also re-wash if it got soaked!

Shocked at the flagrant disregard for the rules of laundry being displayed on this thread. Clothes left overnight? To be darked on? At the mercy of spiders and their willies and their poo? And ignoring the RAIN? And the smell of damp dog?

Mine smells fine, others must have dirty rain or something?

piggy was pushed I live next to a main road and fields that often smell of slurry and my washing always smells fresher when line dried.

I've left mine out for days before, in a stubborn stand off with the weather. And it always gets darked on as I hang it in the afternoon and thicker fabrics are still damp by evening. I always have at least on clothes horse overloaded in the kitchen, too. The bloody laundry never ends!

My neighbors washing has been out for over two weeks I have contemplated taking it in , washing and drying it then leaving on the doorstep in a bag

yourat- Ewww the rain on clothes stink when it's dry.
If it's been left out. I have to re wash them.

What does rain contain do you think to make them smell bad?
If it's just pure water then that couldn't account for the smell, surely it's just an additional rinse?

Love this thread!!!

Hmmm. I'm as slatternly as they come, but I would normally bring the washing in if it totally pours. Otherwise it's sopping - not just out of the washing machine wet but sodden like it's not been spun so it won't dry for weeks unless it's really hot out. And if it gets too bad it gets too heavy for the washing line and it snaps and lands in the mud (voice of experience). Bit of drizzle - yanbu.