AIBU- washing- ' tops from the bottom, bottoms from the top' ?

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LIGHTHEARTED!
When hanging out the washing I always hang tops from the bottom and then any trousers/skirts from the waist.
Dh thinks it should be the opposite way.
AIBU to think that I'm right?

I’m with you OP! I always do the same. I find they don’t crease as much.

My very wise mother used to say, “If you wear it on the top, you hang it from the bottom. If you wear it on the bottom, you hang it from the top!”

You're right unless the tops have spaghetti straps.

I hang T-shirts, shirts etc on clothes hangers, it saves ironing. Trousers I hang upside down as they dry quicker that way. Skirts I usually clip into one of those clip clothes hangers (again, saves ironing as it drys the way it’s supposed to hang).

Clearly you don’t have much wind where you are!

Every time I hang the washing I remember a thread saying they’d been taught this by their granny or some such, and my response then is the same as now - I hang each garment up how best works for it.

Always! It was drummed into me as a kid by my mum, grandma and neighbour lady. Also, double pegging so you’re joining one item to the next with one peg to save on space and pegs. I only don’t do that with trousers as I find the waist bands dry better if I don’t.

I hang trousers from the cuff. It makes sense to me. The thickest part of the garment (the waist band) is not squished up in the pegs, and it also acts as a kind of weight to help straighten out the legs. I hang tops from the bottom too.

Tops by their bottoms and bottoms by their tops 👚👖

I hang shirts etc (the stuff that goes in hangers) in a window opening so it gets a breeze. But no I don’t hang my cloths on hangers outside in the wind. Only towels, sheets etc

Tops definitely from the bottom. Bottoms by one leg!!

Pretty much everything by the bottom. I like the waistband of jeans /trousers/pj bottoms to be able to flap around in the breeze so I hang them by the feet.

No you are right and your husband is some sort of psychopath!

Tops from bottom, bottoms from the top.

I’ve always done this…it’s common sense isn’t it? I’m in my 60s and learned this from my mum…who in turn was taught this by my gran (who was an AWESOME lady so must be right 😂)

Hate having to share pegs too I’ve got loads.

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Absolutely OP. A very long time ago I was in the Army, we were taught to hang washing out this way. Also to wash everything inside out. I still live by this mantra.

Hanging trousers inside out allows pockets to dry quicker.

Neighbours just drape things over the communal washing whirly gigs, letting things blow to the floor...

Both from bottoms

I think you are correct, but don’t always follow my own advice!

Hang from the bottom. Both tops and trousers. The trouser waistband is the thickest part so needs to be free to blow in the breeze.

I start out with tops by bottoms, bottoms by tops and then go out and turn them over after about an hour. I only get the sun in one side of my garden and I like my washing toasted on both sides, so if I have to turn them round, I might as well turn them over too.

My OH hangs trousers by the bottoms and it winds me up no end! T shirts, blouses etc from the bottom and trousers skirts from the waist band. We use clothes pegs as hangers would blow off the line!

No pegs ? That's madness !