Hanging my knickers on the line

[Boysgrownbutstillathome]

When I was growing up all washing went on the line. I have carried this on - everything goes on the line, including undies. I can see three neighbours' gardens and washing lines from my bedroom window and they never hang their undies out. Is it now considered shameful? I am not embarrassed by my family's clean underpants. AIBU?

Course not. I was aghast to hear that in a lot of housing estates in America there are rules against hanging out washing as it looks “unsightly”. Presumably they have to use the tumble drier. It’s no wonder the planet is burning,

You'd have to be a Grade A utter twat to be offended by seeing underwear drying on a line!

Carry on as you were OP.

I hang mine out but DH doesn’t put his out. He is a repressed individual.

I don't put underwear on the line, but then mine is visible from the road. I just don't want everyone to see my pants shrugs

I hang ours outside on an ikea octopus on the line

If there is space for smalls, they go up.

I hang mine outside but only on these peg hanger things, I'd never hang them out on the line individually

I dry my reusable sanitary pads on the line.

How did you e en notice this?

Funnily enough I was just thinking about this this morning as I was hanging up mine and DHs smalls, prior to the in laws coming round for a bbq. The knickers still went on the line though!

Everything goes on ours as space and weather allows, including period undies.

I don’t think there’s anything shameful about it, but I wouldn’t want neighbours knowing what type of underwear I wear, and some of my ‘monthly’ pants are a bit worse for wear!
Husband’s/son’s pants all go on the line though.

I put mine on a clothes horse on the ground , but not because I'm embarrassed of having it on the line, just because I put all the small stuff together

I hang mine out though do tend to either use the sockopus or hang them on the inside bit of my rotary drier- but that's just because they fit well there and it leaves the outside for stuff that takes longer to dry.

I just wonder why you are spending so much time studying the makeup of your neigbour's washing lines...

...when if one holds a glass to the ajoining bedroom wall you can listen to all manner of things.

I always hang mine out on my IKEA octopus.

@Candleabra my friend lives in an apartment block in the south of England and was informed that it's against the rules to dry washing on her veranda. She was told by a very snooty person that no laundry was permitted outside🙄

All ours goes out, adult DDs put theirs out too. Don't understand the issue.

I prefer the socktopus because it's quicker to get them on the line and back in again, but I don't care if anyone sees my underwear, we all wear the stuff.

I hang mine out unless they’ve got holes in them.

When I was a teenager there was a spate of women’s undies being stolen from washing lines. I don’t think the knicker knocker was ever caught.

In our garden, washing line space is too valuable real estate to use for small items. Therefore socks go on one of those octopuses, and undies, shorts, leotards etc go on a clothes horse. If we’re really pushed for space, shirts and dresses have to come inside to dry on coathangers hanging from the doorframes.

But if we had one of those whirly things that give a lot of drying line space, underwear would also go on the line.

I don’t hang anything out (use an airer in the house) but I wouldn’t be offended by anyone’s pants.
My parents had a birthday party for my grandad in their garden and we only realised after the photos were developed (circa 1980) that next door’s black and red matching set of lacy underwear were in almost every shot! Still makes us giggle.

Underwear tends to go outside on an airer, but just to leave more space on the line for bigger/thicker things that dry better with a breeze

DP does all the laundry. We don’t have a tumble dryer and he puts the airer outside in dry weather so I assume my knickers and his pants make a regular appearance. I’ve never even thought about it. Who cares?

No idea about the neighbours; I haven’t really paid any attention. The only things that have ever caught my eye on either side’s washing lines were football shirts or football-branded beach towels (which caught my eye because I’m nosy about what teams people support). And also the time when the left-hand side neighbours came back from a holiday and hung their four kids’ sunsuits out, which I noticed because for some reason they left them hanging out for several months. They built a rear extension in less time than it took them to bring them in. They were literally ducking under the hanging sunsuits to get tools from the shed while they were doing the work.

But yeah, no idea about their pants… if they ever leave some on the line for six months, I’ll let you know.

Over 30 years ago my now ex-MIL came to stay. She washed some knickers by hand & hung them on the line. I remember saying to a friend that a) I’d take a week’s worth of pants on holiday & b) if my pants were as big as hers I wouldn’t be hanging them out for display.
I now wear knickers that big & they do go on the line, albeit a rotary one so they’re not strung the length of the garden. I do hide some of them in the middle because I wear them to death & the elastic has parted from the main part so it looks like I need handles on my pants.