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?

We have a communal drying green so I don't put our underwear on it as I don't want all the town dogwalkers seeing it as they go by. If I had my own line in the garden I would dry everything on there,

I fine these US neighbourhood rules ridiculous. How can hanging washing out to dry make an area undesirable? I can only assume electricity is a lot cheaper there as there's no way we could afford to tumble dry everything.

Do pervs nick school uniform off washing lines? I've never heard that.

One of my daughters has a neighbour who went to her door and asked her to stop hanging out underwear as her husband found it offensive . DD told neighbour to suggest her husband stop looking !

Ours all goes out on the line - it really doesn't bother me. Our next door neighbour hangs theirs out on the line as well, I did point out to DH that NNN buys nicer, designer pants than DH.

I assumed it was due to not wanting everyone to know what school your kids go to but I don't worry as a) you can only see a sliver of my washing line from the street and b) 90%+ of kids round here go to the same school and they walk to school wearing said uniform.

Everything including pants and socks always goes out on the washing line here whenever the weather permits. I really couldn't give two shits who can see them.

Mine go on the line, in the middle, mostly because they fit there, and the sheets only fit on the outside of the rotary line.

Neighbours have never commented (and we do talk over the wall.) I don't really notice what's on their lines, either, other than an occasional thought about them being optimistic with the weather.

Everything goes on the line here but the undies aren't visible from the neighbour's gardens as I put them on the bit of line that is out of sight. No idea what the neighbours do though as I've never noticed what they put on their lines.

😳 Bloody cheek. I would have gone straight to Ann Summers, bought some crotchless knickers and hung them out with 2 pegs each!

I would have also told her it’s cold in the winter without them.

In general, if you are ashamed of your knickers on the line, it’s high time you bought some new knickers!

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It's not that they might nick them. More that I don't want to advertise info about my teenagers to passing strangers (which school they go to, what size they are, etc)

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I hang em out. Although I do now fold them over as my 3yo son mistook them for a t-shirt once and I've never lived it down with DH 🤣

That's a great version!
I learned - "What's the time?
Half past nine
Hang your knickers on the line.
If a robber comes along
Hurry up and put them on"
Yours is funnier!

I love your observations!

I don't put out undies or socks on the line. Not because I'm a prude but because I'm bone idle and just bundle them up and bung them in the dryer rather than peg them out and bring them in.

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Eat the biscuit, eat the cake, eat the knickers by mistake!

Thank you, you've brought me down memory lane with this. Funny what's hidden in the darkest recesses of our minds.
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None of my neighbours seem to hang underwear on the line but I always have. If it shocks or offends them, well then I think it's their issue.

It’s so much a real thing that there is even a game

Stealing underwear can be a real indicator, though.

We had a spate of disappearing frillies disappearing in the village where I lived some decades ago. They found them in the thief’s house when they went to arrest him for lying in wait for his neighbour when she walked the dog, and beating her to death.

This hideous man who was high up in the Canadian Air force graduated from stealing underwear to murder

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Williams_(criminal)

I hate the word “pants”. It’s one of my pet hates and banned from the house.

Yep I think it’s strange OP has looked at 3 neighbours’ washing.

I hang my knickers and bras on the line, I love washing dried outside in the sun.

My neighbours hang out their washing too and I have never thought to check if they’re hanging out underwear