Washing and neighbours

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To think it’s strange my neighbours never ever hang out their washing? Lovely day here but regardless they never hang their washing out?

You may laugh, my neighbour always complains to our housing association and wouldn’t surprise us if they also complain to 101 when we hang out washing,

Outside isn’t an option for us as it rains too much. I mostly use a clothes horse, or tumble dryer occasionally for stuff I need dry quickly or towels/bedding that are too awkward to hang up.

Yes! I do not understand why people want or claim to prefer crunchy line dried towels. You will prise my tumble dryer from my cold dead hands.

I've not had a clothes line up in the 4 years I've lived in my house, i tumble dry everything 🤷‍♀️

I very rarely hang mine out more convenient to tumble dry and I can afford the electricity bill plus ill health - got fed up of bringing it in and out when weather changes and invariably it ended up needing dried in dryer

Me too! They are an absolute boon

Towels, pants, socks in the tumbler. Bedding in the winter because it takes forever on the airer.

Everything else on the line where possible because the breeze batters out the creases and it always smells beautiful.

@kiwipolish put it on a low heat setting for a longer time.

Tbf some driers don't really let you control it very well. I had a washer drier that dried everything super hot if you put it on a combination cycle.

MIL has never hung washing on the line in the 35+ years that I've known her. She loves her garden too much to spoil it with a washing line.
NDN commented that when they moved in (5 years ago) previous owners had left them a washing line but that she wouldn't be needing it. I've seen the occasional thing on a hanger drying on a bracket outside but never a line of washing, even in the summer.
I, on the other hand, can't wait to peg my washing out. I hate having it drying over a maiden inside and I only ever tumble dry underwear, towels and bedding (in the winter) We're all too tall and long armed to risk tumble drying other clothes

I don't have a tumble dryer and I still don't dry outside. It's more effort. We've got a ceiling airer and I often don't put it away as soon as it's dry. Also our garden is small and the washing line cuts across it.

I don't. I have politely asked the birds flying from my roof to wherever they go to, not to crap on my washing but they don't seem to understand.

Yanbu. My skanky neighbours very rarely hang out washing either. I add it to the long list of reasons I can't stand them. We have tiny houses so they must either waste money on a tumble dryer or have damp laundry everywhere, even in summer.

The only thing they put out is endless empty alcohol bottles in the recycling.

Love it.My parents would do the same if I could be that organised!

The last time I hung washing outside I was still living at home as a teenager and I remember putting my leg into my jeans and out popped a huge spider. Arachnophobic me developed a life long aversion to hanging washing outside on that day 😁

I never hang washing out because I just don't want to.

Yes, I think it is.
That must be awful.
I had to have a hay fever jab in the 80’s, I assume they don’t do them now.

I didn’t even think of the pollen clinging to the clothes.
Although in France the Aoûtats ( tiny bitey harvest mites) cling to clothes and so I always iron anything that’s been on the line in summer.

Lovely warm conservatory, clothes horse. Why traipse out to garden and fanny around with pegs when I can dry it in there? I hardly ever put my washing on the line, no need :)

I’m always surprised on here how obsessed folks are with their neighbours,,,they don’t hang their washing out, they don’t open their windows, they are painting their house, they never leave, the kids don’t play in the garden

its now like curtain twitching on steroids, not only can you watch what they do, you can now post threads and discuss it,,

I have hayfever and it would never occure to me that it may be a problem.

I hang washing out when I can and the only thing I ever iron is school uniforms

HTH.

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In my home its from the washing machine to the tumble dryer.

I know! It’s great isn’t it!

I can the neighbours at the back hang their washing out, but I'd have to crane my head out the back bedroom window to keep on eye what what either side does, and I'm really not interested.

I can hear Patricia Routledge as Kitty saying"I can honestly say that people today aren't pegging enough out".