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Do you hang knickers on the line?

201 replies

Simpsonsfan · 26/06/2024 21:19

Or Bras for that matter. I've got a washing line for the first time ever but what is the done thing?

OP posts:
Coastalcreeksider · 26/06/2024 22:15

Hoglet70 · 26/06/2024 21:21

But on one peg so they dangle as my knickers are huge and the neighbours can see my line. Underwear on the inside of the line and big stuff on the outside to hide it.

Ha ha, that's me to a tee as well. 😆

sweetnessandlighter · 26/06/2024 22:15

7monthsofwinter · 26/06/2024 22:09

Only at half past nine

Ha!

Yes I do OP - why wouldn't I? They're only pants. To be fair they're so enormous they could be mistaken for t shirts

rewilded · 26/06/2024 22:15

I remember getting all my knickers, stolen from the washing line as a student. It was the landlord's son. Envy

HauntedCosmos · 26/06/2024 22:17

somedizzyhore1804 · 26/06/2024 21:26

Yes, and my culotte slips which my dh says look like massive bloomers.

Ooh they sound comfy - where do you get those from?

MissedItByThisMuch · 26/06/2024 22:18

Yes - has never occurred to me not to, is this a thing?? Full disclosure I’m Australian and therefore vulgar by definition…

pontipinemum · 26/06/2024 22:18

Yes I have one of those octapus hanger things for socks and knickers.

Are you from a country that doesn't normally hang washing out to dry? It's perfectly acceptable

Wombat8 · 26/06/2024 22:20

No. I just can't. When I was 16, some perve stole my pants off the line but left my mum's big bloomers hanging there. And my neighbour is a bit odd. I guarantee he'd comment on them and he makes me cringe just looking at him. I have issues!!

IrritatedB3dM4ker · 26/06/2024 22:20

Hoglet70 · 26/06/2024 21:21

But on one peg so they dangle as my knickers are huge and the neighbours can see my line. Underwear on the inside of the line and big stuff on the outside to hide it.

I do this too!

KickHimInTheCrotch · 26/06/2024 22:21

Yes of course. I don't give a shit what the neighbours think about my washing (or anything else for that matter)

pontipinemum · 26/06/2024 22:23

Wombat8 · 26/06/2024 22:20

No. I just can't. When I was 16, some perve stole my pants off the line but left my mum's big bloomers hanging there. And my neighbour is a bit odd. I guarantee he'd comment on them and he makes me cringe just looking at him. I have issues!!

that's fair enough some people are pervs. When I lived in a bit of a shit hole someone broke into our flat and cut the crotch out of all my knickers 😳every single pair

Flowery57 · 26/06/2024 22:24

Londonrach1 · 26/06/2024 21:22

Yes ..I don't have a flag pole so it have to be the washing line...

Made my day! 😂😂

Wonderknicks · 26/06/2024 22:25

Name changed as this would out me to friends.
DS does a job where he had to be visited by a licensing body. This was during lockdown so they did what they had to do inside with masks on & then quizzed him sitting in the garden. After quite some time I looked out to realise that one of the inspectors had a pair of my undies dangling about 6 inches above her head.
So yes, I hang my undies out, it would be madness not yo. However had I realised they were going to sit under the washing line I might not have done so on that day 😂

torturedpoet13 · 26/06/2024 22:25

Yes I don't care, everyone wears underwear

Waffle78 · 26/06/2024 22:28

When we had a yard I did. Had one of those round things with pegs on. When we moved here I never. Our garden is on a corner plot quite overlooked. My children developed allergies so had to stop. We have a dryer now anyway. Anything that.

Wonderknicks · 26/06/2024 22:29

Posted in error - trying to delete a duplicate post.

Everygrain · 26/06/2024 22:30

Yes, on an octopus hanger

Needtocleanupdogsick · 26/06/2024 22:31

Yip, by the gusset!

Everygrain · 26/06/2024 22:33

I don't in the winter, or socks as it's a lot of faff for not much drying so smalls go in dryer then, only big stuff on the line.

MartyFunkhouser · 26/06/2024 22:34

We are tumble dryers all year round, so no.

My MIL pegs out her knicks and bras right down her garden - visible from a path popular with walkers. I think it’s unseemly, but she doesn’t bat an eyelid.

Simpsonsfan · 26/06/2024 22:35

Poolstream · 26/06/2024 21:46

Yes. But I don’t leave them out overnight or they’ll be darked on.

What does darked on mean?

OP posts:
Waffle78 · 26/06/2024 22:35

Wombat8 · 26/06/2024 22:20

No. I just can't. When I was 16, some perve stole my pants off the line but left my mum's big bloomers hanging there. And my neighbour is a bit odd. I guarantee he'd comment on them and he makes me cringe just looking at him. I have issues!!

This happened to a neighbour of mine. Back in the day's when people used to hang washing in the backstreet. Some jeans and a t-shirt got took as well. So maybe they were desperate. After that they never hung their washing out in the backstreet again and neither did we.

JuneIsBustinOutAllOver · 26/06/2024 22:35

Yes, although I do put my pants closer to the house than T shirts etc.

MN has taught me to hang washing out before I go to bed if it’s been dry for several days and no rain is forecast. I did it for the first time this year two nights ago, and thought of you all as I did it.

The washing was dry when I went to put out a second load in the morning.

rewilded · 26/06/2024 22:37

What does darked on mean?

Wow...are you new here? Grin

ForGreyKoala · 26/06/2024 22:38

Of course, as does everyone else I know (and people I don't know, but see their clothes lines!). Why on earth would you not?

scoopoftheday · 26/06/2024 22:38

Is that you Rebecca?