My washing isn't completely dry.

[3Britnee]

Would I be unreasonable to leave it out there til the morning?

🙈

Oh OP thank you for your post and all the replies. Just what I needed after a bit of a shit day.

Washing being darked on, Northern lights, spider willies, mutated spiders, spiders hatching in pants 🕷 🥚 🩲 🤢.
A much needed a laugh, thank you.

What the heck is meant by DARKED ON??
Several people have asked but no replies. Why?

What's the problem with spider willies 🙈 I always leave washing at night if it isn't dry? Not work bringing them in for me to then put them back up in the morning

Mines still out... Think I might have to burn them (when eventually dry obviously!! 😂)

mad idea more damp over night,and it could rain

@Dontwanttolivewithmylover amongst other people, Beancounter answered this on page 3.

I'd fold it up and let it spend the night in the airing cupboard. Will be dry for tomorrow.

@Beancounter1

Darked on is an old MN joke: the equivalent of 'rained on', but with dark instead of rain. i.e. - it is dark outside at night. Nothing like explaining a joke to kill it stone dead

@Dontwanttolivewithmylover here you go

@SunshineCake

I'd fold it up and let it spend the night in the airing cupboard. Will be dry for tomorrow.

I and most the people I know don't have an airing cupboard!

@LST

I leave mine out all the time and bring it in at dinner the next day. Sometimes I even put it out in the dark! The horror!

I am another who puts washing out in the dark .

A question for you.....

If some washing gets darked on, does the outcome change if it's whites or coloureds that are hung out?

I need to know.

It's fine. Just leave it. They're all a lot of willie wavers.

We have the best wind overnight. I might try it with the towels and report back.

Spiders don't have willies though. Do they?

What is ‘darked on’?

I'm paranoid about leaving mine out, although I'm not quite sure why I think it's worse at night!
I refuse to dry bedding on the line though, it has to go in the tumble dryer. My colleague was woken in the middle of the night once to the sound of her son hoovering- about a million (might be a slight exaggeration!) spider babies had hatched from out of his duvet!

Why would you even ask that....
Clag it on the bloody clothes horse in the bedroom or leave it out. You have to ask mumsnet that or is it a joke

🙄 it's a joke. The long standing darked on thing.

Some real fun sponges on this thread 🙄🙄

@CassandraCross I am missing the nice spring weather if I am honest! This rain bs can go away!

Just hang it on clothes horses inside for the night. It will dry better inside overnight than outside.

You have to be careful with the tumble drying too, in case it gets spiked...........as my friend found a hedgehog in her tumble dryer hose . A bit dusty but still alive, healthy & a bit cross.

@LST me too. I love a bright Spring day with enough of a breeze to thoroughly air the washing, the smell when you bring it in is divine.

Well mine frequently gets darked on and is the neighbourhood spider willy chaffer so go for it. Though the dew will make it damper over night. I usually just forget to take it in then remember when I'm too tired to be arsed to go out in the dark to get it (plus the creepy crawlies have probably already given it a good hump and the dark seeped into its fibers) so I just leave it

@violetbunny

You should know that the standard Mumsnet response is that it will get darked on. Never mind the spider willies!

I think about this whenever I hang washing out on a summer evening. It still makes me laugh out loud.

I wonder how the rest of the outside world deals with being darked on?!

@wizbit93

I'm paranoid about leaving mine out, although I'm not quite sure why I think it's worse at night! I refuse to dry bedding on the line though, it has to go in the tumble dryer. My colleague was woken in the middle of the night once to the sound of her son hoovering- about a million (might be a slight exaggeration!) spider babies had hatched from out of his duvet!

It’s because subconsciously you KNOW.....