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To be annoyed that my neighbour took my washing in for me when it started raining?

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Wallace · 09/05/2007 12:31

Ok, yes I am being completely totally unreasonable, it was a lovely thought, she is very sweet.

However she just bunged it all in the basket and by the time I got home it was so creased. I am a bit control-freakery with my washing and I fold it and organise it into piles as I take it down from the line. I don't iron so this way works for me. Now I have a huge pile of creased unorganised washing to fold and sort.

Yes, I told you, I am being unreasonable, I should be thankful that I have such I lovely neighbour (I am, really) but I though you would all enjoy a bit of my grumpiness

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ChocolateFace · 09/05/2007 14:38

My mum took the neighbours terry nappies in once when it started to rain. They called the police. Being nosey, my mum used the excuse of returning the washing to find out why the police were there.

IcingOnTheCake · 09/05/2007 14:42

I do that too where i take it all of the line in a certain order. I don't mind ironing though.

mamatres · 09/05/2007 14:46

i wouldnt like my neighbour touching my knickers, clean or not...

ChocolateFace · 09/05/2007 14:48

Well that depends on your neighbour and the state of your knickers

SoMuchToBits · 09/05/2007 14:50

Well. it was kind of them to help, but........I know I would be annoyed, as I have my own ways of doing things too. The other day dh came out while I was pegging washing on the line, and started to help (this is practically unheard of), but I had to unpeg most of the bits he put out, as they were all in the wrong order etc. Yes, OK, I need to get a life, and I am undoubtedly an obsessive control freak, but I can see where you are coming from on this one.

MrsRecycle · 09/05/2007 14:55

rofl mamatres!! Oh that reminds me, in the Au Pair welcome pack I must put a paragraph about the etiquette of hanging the washing on the line - it MUST go in a certain order!

ThatBeetroot · 09/05/2007 15:07

god waht a BITCH you mean she din't fold it and iron it for you - tsk

kookaburra · 09/05/2007 15:08

Reminds me of the time when next doors builder did mine ( not even my own builder) must admit I checked all the knickers were there

jdd0709 · 09/05/2007 15:24

interesting point there about whether or not you need to rewash it if it gets rained on - I am never sure but generally do "just in case" unless it has only been for a minute or two. Just in case of what though? Acid Rain? Pollution? I suppose I am never sure how clean rainwater is - I suppose you don't come home and have a shower if you get caught out in the rain do you?

laundrylover · 09/05/2007 15:44

Shall we form special group for pegging fanactics??

Do you get twitchy watching anyone else peg out your washing?

Do certain things have to go on certain lines?

Do you wince when you see washing hung OVER the line?

The join us for group therapy/top tips and slagging off 'bad' peggers everywhere!

BTW re the rain. I often leave stuff out in the rain as it really gets the creases out. It's also the best way of fluffing up nappies in the absence of a tumble dryer IMO. Maybe it is the acid - better than Comfort tho.

laundrylover · 09/05/2007 15:47

fanatics - look I'm a pedant too - who'd have thought it?

Chloe55 · 09/05/2007 15:53

When I was a student I used to get so behind on my washing - mum would occassionally come and help me out by doing a laod and pegging it out. That's where it stayed for weeks until the neighbours would remind me to bring it in God, I used to be such a scrubber!

Wags · 09/05/2007 15:58

Ah, now my neighbour used to do that but she would also bring it in then sort it and fold it and anything not quite dry would be put over the back of a chair to air slightly. They have since moved although they are now great friends and DD's Godparents. They babysat on Saturday and I made sure I had done most of the obvious housework so once the kids were in bed she would sit and relax and not do things. But..... I had a load of dry washing on the spare bed (yes, I am a scrunch it up and dump it type) and she sorted it out, folded it and put it into piles for DS, DD etc and put some of it away in their cupboards if it was obvious where it went. HOW lucky am I to have such fantastic friends?! We cherish them and their friendship and I think my DD is a very lucky girl to have such wonderful Godparents. They rent the house out next door to us and we have fantastic neighbours again. Very lucky.

maisemor · 09/05/2007 15:58

Laundrylover, see that is why I will not allow my hubby to hang up clothes, what is it with the double folding. You just end up with a huge fold in the middle. He pegs everything the wrong way, he folds, he hangs up t-shirts and trousers the wrong way. No far better that I do it, so it gets done right

kookaburra · 09/05/2007 16:02

My washing is being rained on right now, but if I go out to bring it in my hair will frizz...

tigerschick · 09/05/2007 16:03

I know what you mean about hanging things the wrong way. Dh hangs my stretchy tops by the waistband so that they get all out of shape. I don't have the heart to complain tho! I'm a bit of a freak when it comes to hanging in order tho for me it's about symmetry! () My parents used to live in Belize and there all the washing is hung in order - trousers going smallest to biggest, shirts going smallest to biggest, skirts ... you get the idea ... but never underwear on the line!

Blu · 09/05/2007 16:04

I have all manner of pernicketiness about hanging up washing - including all Tissy's, and trousers must be hung by legs, not waistband, shirts upside down too...etc etc.

Wallace - if you buy your neighbour a good Gortex waterproof and some wellies, then I thnk you could reasonably expect her to stand out in the pouring rain getting it right.

Alternatively, have you ever found MetCheck.com?????

badelaide · 09/05/2007 16:04

Dh sort of bunches it.

BandofMothers · 09/05/2007 16:04

OMG, I haven't read it all but the first load. Up to maisemor, who was saying how she takes it down in catagories. I have a system too
I peg all the little things together like socks and knickers, then all tshirts, trousers etc, then big things like sheets, towels, etc.
So that I can take it all in in reverse order and fold the big things into the bottom of the basket and small things on top. Then also easier to put away.

It is about the only thing in my life that I am so wierdly organised with.

DH hangs everything all over the place and doesn't even pull t shirts so that the seams are straight, just pegs them up all skewiff

Needless to say, he gets let off laundry duty

laundrylover · 09/05/2007 16:04

Maisie, it's a bit of a dilemma though as he then says 'I try to help but I can't do it right' SWIM? Now he tries to help out in ways that don't raise my blood pressure as much!

Inspired by this thread it just started to rain so I was able to pop out and bring it all in for an air - ahhhh....the advantages of working from home.

Last week we went to visit my sis and the pair of us sat out in the garden quietly criticising the neighbours on both sides for their shockingly bad hanging techniques. The DPs said we were snobs but we said we were just 'concerned technicians'.

BandofMothers · 09/05/2007 16:05

BTW, I think your neighbour is lovely, if sloppy

I have thought of doing it for my neighbours, but don't know them and don't want them to think I'm wierd, so in the end I don't.

laundrylover · 09/05/2007 16:07

Feel that I must add that laundry provides the only order in my whole life which is a tangled chaotic affair of grubby kids, untidyness and shouting!

WinkyWinkola · 09/05/2007 16:08

YABU but very funny!

Your neighbour isn't sloppy - she probably irons everything so doesn't worry about how the laundry is folded in the basket.

Try ironing it.

maisemor · 09/05/2007 16:10

No, no Bandofmothers you must do the BIG things first, get them out of the basket. That way it will give you the impression that there is not that much left to do

laundrylover · 09/05/2007 16:22

Try ironing it?? What is this 'iron' word??

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