I dry my laundry in my garden and my neighbour is really unhappy about it

[WashingWoes]

I really don’t think I’m in the wrong here but keen for opinions which I will take onboard if I come off as unreasonable.
I live in an end-terrace house. Neighbour is attached to me. I peg my washing out to dry on good days. We are a family of four, lots of laundry and I much prefer to peg out than use the (expensive and environmentally unfriendly) drier. My neighbour HATES me for drying my laundry in my garden. Relentless comments about how she can’t enjoy looking at her garden from her bedroom window because she can see my (clean) laundry. About how it’s spoiling her enjoyment of her garden. Why can’t I just use the drier, for everyone’s benefit (not mine, see: bills; climate change…). It’s bad manners to dry ‘smalls’ outside - her husband might see my ‘undergarments’ … honestly it’s relentless. I recently received a birthday card from them (very kind, and appreciated) which said ‘Happy Birthday WashingWoes, we really love seeing your washing on the line, have a lovely birthday’. Please reassure me that I’m normal and neighbours are barmy?

Maybe someone else can post the cartoon where 2 women admire "the latest in solar and wind technology": a clothes line... cos I can't. 😳

Get a grip.

Unless your neighbour can afford a country estate set in acres of her own land she will just have to suck it up like everyone else does. Your house and garden, your private place. It’s not like you’re holding endless late night BBQs or late night hot tub parties. She should count herself lucky, at least washing is quiet.

She needs to get a life. If she goes on about it again, tell her to put a sock in it (bad pun intended).

I've seen a post on Facebook that someone had hung out their laundry in such a way tho shadows spelled T.W.A.T. That should get Hyacinth Bucket clutching her pearls!

Whatever next?!?!
Your neighbour is a total batshit crazy moron! Who in their right mind dries washing indoors when the weather is so lovely. I understand that some HOA’s in the US don’t allow laundry to be dried outside, which I also think is bonkers but here in the UK……….keep on pegging WashingWoes.
Actually, I’d be tempted to peg out all my saucy undies regardless of what the neighbour demanded.

You can buy funny tea towels on amazon and face cloths saying "beaver cleaner" 🤣🤣 have a look op and buy them we are getting some to peg out for our nutcase neighbour ha

🤣🤣🤣🤣 they are nuts. I’d start buying really funny things to hang out. Like giant novelty size knickers

Ooh I’d be buying pvc knickers from Ann summers!

Your neighbours are peculiar. Hanging out washing is fine. Keep doing it for the planet's sake (maybe) and certainly for the sake of your bills.

Tell her your garden and how you use it has no bearing on her enjoyment of her own garden, and that you will continue to hang out your washing in good weather, regardless of what she thinks. Hanging washing is good for your washing and good for the environment. Also tell her that with electricity prices as they are she’s totally batshit to use a tumble drier when you don’t need to so she can fuck right off and mind her own business.

Mad as a hatter! I like the idea of hanging out something for to get her teeth into ..........

Thanks reading this reminded me I need to put washing on, no outdoor space here to dry it and no tumble dryer so everything is just dried on airers or radiators.
I would love to have an outside space to dry in

Or a full blown gimp suit with a tea towel hung next to it spelling out your ‘safe word’ !! Hopefully that’ll shut her up for good.

You're normal. She may or may not be.

I heard about something similar years back where a middle aged woman started complaining about he younger neighbour pegging out her laundry include bras and the rest. The younger woman just figured that she was jealous and ignored the situation. At some point they got talking it and turned out that the older woman had had a mastectomy and seeing the bras was like a constant reminder. So basically sometimes it's not what you think is the problem.

Or she's a bitch.

Our tumble dryer has a short warm cycle specifically for softening after line drying

I vote pegging out washable sanitary towels

Brilliant 🤣😂

1% think YABU. Must be the neighbour. She is making no sense so it's Ok to ignore her!

To be honest, her husband sounds a bit creepy noticing and eyeing up your underwear. I would start making jokes back about that. Reminds me of the Father Ted episode where all the Priests get lost in the ladies underwear department in a department store!! 😆

Vile, horrible and frankly bonkers woman, and as for that birthday card! She needs neighbours like mine, currently their back yard contains two broken down buggies, a rusted bbq, various over filled black bin bags that tend to split and spew their contents on the ground, this has included dirty nappies and rotting food, Their fence has fallen down so the mess is visible for all to see and it sometimes spills over to the communal alley way. This is wny I cannot use my outside space, she would collapse and never recover if she had one day of having to put up with my neighbours

Your neighbour is a loon, ignore her. Whatever the total opposite of a domestic goddess is? That’s me. I hate all things domestic. EXCEPT hanging laundry out on a sunny day! When the weather is right and you can wash and dry three loads in a day? Total achievement, pinnacle of being an actual grown up (I’m almost 50 🤣🤣) Your neighbour is a killjoy!!!

I must admit though, I do dry our smalls on the inside of the rotary line since the time my ex boss dropped by unexpectedly and I was having an awkward conversation in view of a line of bras gently waving in the breeze.

So do I just in case of pop in visitors! 😂

I'm sure OP wouldn't mind, might have to travel though 😂

Not RTFT so apologies if already shared.

But...

You know what card to get for her birthday, don't you?
Birthday card of dreams
Then I'd write in it that's she clearly not a day over 21 and have a wonderful birthday!