To think that it takes more than 5 minutes to hang out a load of washing

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All over Mumsnet people are heard saying 'it only takes 5 minutes' to hang out a load. Kim and Aggie say it too.

I am sorry you are all WRONG. I have done time trials under controlled scientific conditions timed myself and it takes at least 10. I am not a slow pegger but I am a thorough one. So WIBU to declare that a proper 'hang' (

I agree.

Towels take 3 mins.

A load with socks takes about 4 hours.

Yanbu

damn tooting

Takes me longer I think... However I'm often watching Ru Paul's Drag Race at the same time, so it's not a fair test.

Takes me about 5 but I'm speedy when it comes to anything house work related.

Takes my husband 5 minutes with his middle pegging. Grrr. Takes longer for any person who takes care. Unless they've trained hard for speed.

Hanging out baby washing is the worst!
Feels like a million tiny items that are never going to end

YANBU!

6 minutes. 7.5 with multiple child socks.

Two pegs per item - One per sock is required to comply with protocol

Three is excessive IMO

DH can hang a full load in about 30 seconds, although his method just consists of draping the wet stuff on the rail

YANBU! Takes me at least 10 minutes to try and match the socks as I like them to hang on the line in pairs.
If it starts to rain I can get the line emptied in about 2 minutes!

Don't take long to hang mine out but that's because "smalls" go in the tumble dryer. Life to short to hang out socks!

At least 10. Anyone who says otherwise is doing it wrong & will be less efficient in the long run anyway when it all takes longer to dry!

I hang my socks in pairs with 1 peg but with only one sock side attached to let the air in. They dry really quickly like this and its quickerand the socks take less room

I agree, DH can but that's middle pegs, stuff inside out etc to hang it out to my exacting standards it's probably 7/8 mins

my fucking whirly is like and assault course...it's too low, so I keep garroting myself, or knocking my specs off, it gets tangled in the rose bush, it won't turn if the wash house door is open just a half inch too far
I much prefer a nice long straight line, but then the courtyard looks like a bloody laundry, so I am on a whirly phase....it's not going to last.

drives me crazy

I only hang out big things...anything small goes right into the tumbly, life is too short to hang socks and pants out.

Me = 10-15 mins. Socks have to be hung (one peg per sock) in pairs, so they can be paired as they come down. Things have to hung in descending size from the inside out. Clothes have to be grouped (all DD's stuff together etc). I am aware I am ridiculous.

DH = 3 minutes, as his method is apparently just chuck the basket at the line and walk away hoping.

DH doesn't hang much washing out.

Does your 10mins include putting up the line?

Don't take long to hang mine out but that's because "smalls" go in the tumble dryer. Life to short to hang out socks!

^this

It takes DH even less time as he just puts it all in the tumble dryer, including The Jeans I Keep Telling Him Not To

Ooh whirly like the sock tip.

And no the official HANG unit of laundry time measurement (LTM) assumes line is already available for use.

Tumbly dryers considered modern and incompatible with this ancient and internationally established form of measurement.

What sort of mad man hangs socks?! Whack them in the tumble dryer if you have one. Then it definitely takes 5 minutes to hang everything 😀

Tumbly driers = devils work. Official

Mine takes about 10. But I like my pegs to match on the same item and as far as possible, I like to match the peg colour to the colour of the item I'm hanging if it's a white load it takes me less time because I don't have any white pegs. Can you tell I don't have children yet??

Yeah, socks together on a thing that can be taken off the line in one piece if it starts to rain. Ditto pants. My pants and his pants separate! Teatowels together. Everything hung from tiniest bit of material possible so that it all dries. As much room between things as poss. 50,000 flipping socks. Need I go on?
Some people, I KNOW just fling it all at the line and peg randomly. They just make work for the rest of us, right?