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' (

10 mins, smalls and socks in airer in back garden ( I have a special space saver sock hanger) bigger things in order of weight in line, if too many things for line then multiple airers used in back garden.

It's a pain in the arse pegging stuff out ds2 nicks all my pegs so they are all over the garden then I always have a ton of washing so it takes a good fifteen mins smells lovely though.

At least ten minutes, yes, if you want the washing to get dry the same day and not have to choose between having your washing waiting around damply and starting to whiff, and having it variously Darked On / Spider Willy Dragged.

Frankly I allow twenty minutes but I do have a big machine and pegs have to match.

10-15 mins here too.
Sheet's and towels and other big stuff on the high line . Everything else on the other two lines. Woollen stuff in the boiler shed on a rack with shirts on hangers so I don't have to iron.
Underwear on the mini twirly whirly thing.
Then come shite weather, the tumbly is my best friend.

Goodness knows how long it takes my aunt - who does everything s.l.o.w.l.y. She has a bag that goes over the whirly gig for protection. That has to be taken off and stored in the shed. Then she goes back to get the pegs and wash basket full of clothes On her way out she will look out for the birds she feeds and the neighbourhood cats (not strays!). Then once the stuff is dry/nearly dry she takes it in, taking away the pegs. Then back to the whirly to put it in the 'up' position and bring out the cover again.

She wonders where the time goes!

I have a rotary - underwear and other small items in the middle, then ranging outwards in terms of size and weight. Jeans and towels go on the outer lines. Sock go in pairs (if at all possible) on those Ikea octopuses (aka "socktopuses" :) ) hung off the arms of the rotary. Two pegs per item, shaking to remove creases as they get hung up.

It's an art form, I tell you!

You're right. I faff and group things by family member but it makes putting it away afterwards super speedy, so I save there . I also put the dry clothes in the basket in the order I go into their rooms to put away

Pulley line (the sort you pull along). Pegs on hip. Basket at fit and no choosiness. 5 mins maximum.

Times can be improved by using a (s)octopus. Hang socks out in the kitchen and then hang soctopus on the line 😄

Crossed with Sally, sorry about that

I've not timed myself (but now have a Fun Future Activity) but suspect am closer to 10 than 5.

However, am using multiple airers (had a rotary in garden but there was A Fox Situation that makes Getting Darked On look positively attractive) & thus having to fill in certain order both in terms of which bits of airer I use & which items I put where for Most Efficient Use Of Space. Wonky Joints do not help with speed!laundry either...

Another "life is too short to peg out socks" here... but a question about whirly airers... new garden has nowhere for a long line so I have a whirly for the first time and I am deeply suspicious of its capabilities - can you really get washing dry if you use every line? Any cunning tips for coping with SKS duvets on them??? TIA

Depends on the load. I'd say 10 mins for me on average.. however my husband takes 75 million bloody years and makes me want to kill him/shout at him to hurry up about half an hour because it all has to be lined up perfectly and things in certain places etc etc

YWNBU re the timing - well, I'd say at least 15 if you were really hanging out a full load, including little items, and items that need sleeves pulling through, etc. (obviously quicker if it were all towels)

but

You lost me at saying a tumble drier is the work of the devil. I would NEVER want to be without a tumble drier.

Soctopus looks amazing. But isn't it cheating if you pre load before moving to the external line.

I think the chaps in white coats at measurement HQ would have a thing or two to say about that.

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

Three is excessive IMO*
Where I live, that would result in the washing taking flight and landing about 3 fields away. It's one peg per sock (and cross your fingers) here, plus at least 3 pegs for everything except sheets, which get 6.
I save time hanging out washing by making my husband do it. He is an excellent labour saving gadget, and now he is retired there is a subsidy on him too!

I agree. It takes 10mins for a load of clothes with little kiddie items in it. But it's my favourite household task!

And yes I am a bit Stone Age in the tumbly environment. They are environmentally evil so, as I have x4 DC which is even more heinous an eco crime the line dried laundry is a penance.

But I do it a lot so think am in good posish to challenge 'established' timings

I don't peg socks btw, they get strewn across the top of the whirlygig.

Plainlycrackers I use every second line but my rotary is a big one and I can fit 3 or 4 loads on it even skipping lines.

Between 5 and 10 minutes for me if I'm hanging inside (as no pegs involved) more like 15 if I hang outside.

Get your point about cheating op. Timing at the line is usually rileient on a Peppa Pig episode and so every moment helps

And about half an hour if DD "helps" me!

Our bannister rail (not the sloping one going up the stairs, but the horizontal one across the landing that stops you falling into the stairwell) just happens to be the right length to fully hang a ks duvet cover on to dry. It's almost as if it was deliberate

Y must use those octopus things from Ikea for socks - genius!

But yes, takes me a couple of minutes to put the whirley up,grab the pegs and taje the washing out on the first place.