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?

I don’t use fabric conditioner. Eco egg in this house - trying to do what we can for the environment!

I saw that on a TV show once (rules on length of grass) and thought it was batshit.... is it really a thing??

Here Out West, we have a special Welsh Rinse drizzle for line washing 😎

She is nuts. Ignore.

As a Reddit user, I can confirm it is a thing. And drives a lot of people quietly insane.

I would get my shirtless husband to peg them out. Put all his underpants facing her garden. If he catches her looking, he must shout, I'M NOT A PIECE OF MEAT, YOU KNOW!

They're mental.

How about pegging out a nice big sign that says "piss off Hyacinth Bucket"?

Or encourage her to complain to the council, who will hopefully tell her she is BU.

100% agree and she needs to leave you alone

I live in a terraced house and we ALL hang our washing out in our gardens. Why is YOUR washing impacting on your neighbour's enjoyment of her garden? Is she looking at her garden at an acute angle?

She's nuts. Dries nicer and much better for the environment and your electricity bill. Ignore her.

I bet her husband is like Father Ted if he wanders into the wrong bit of M&S. Poor man.

If I hang out of my bedroom window I can see my neighbour's washing on the line. Otherwise it's not a visual intrusion and it's her garden anyway. Lifts my heart, thinking of the clean laundry smelling of seaside and sunshine.

She's completely off her trolley.

Just when you think you've read the most bonkers complaint a neighbour can make on mumsnet........ 🙄

@PondUnderTrees I’m now Wonderimg too if I’m not your neighbour….

Washing is drying outside here all the time. Yes even in winter. And when the dcs were still at home, it meant one load a day.

You'd hate me 😁😁

Hang in there 😁

Good job she wasn't born in the 1960s...she'd never have survived if seeing washing upsets her.

I love hanging my washing out. I'm the only one in my cul de sac that does tho. The others are families of 4 or 5 that dry indoors, one has an airer they bring outside occasionally.

Tell your neighbour that people like her are why we have global warming. Imagine using a tumble dryer when you have a garden and a washing line and it’s the middle of a heatwave?

She’s being ridiculous. And controlling.

And why she thinks her grown-ass husband is going to faint at the site of woman’s underwear is beyond me.

It's one of those "I wish I was rich enough to make this not a problem" things? But not a real problem except that she makes it one.

I wish I didn't have neighbours with trampolines and little kids climbing the fence to look over ours.

But since I am not, in fact, rich enough to own a house like that currently, it's a fact of life that I have neighbours and they use their gardens.

Who the actual F voted that YABU???
There's always frigging one! 🤦‍♀️

I would personally put a second washing line up and fill it even more.
Start washing EVERYTHING IN SIGHT, the cushions and throw blankets, potato sacks, even buy a bloody flag, just to wind her up. 😆

SHE IS A CRANK! 💯
Also, threaten to start sunbathing topless, that would REALLY give her husband an eyeful 👀
Cheeky bint.

Now washable nappies is the only than has gone in the tumble drier. They were too hard otherwise.
(and yes when dcs grew out if nappies we got rid of the tumble drier)

Hang some crotchless knickers on the line! She is ridiculous

Why do you say it was 'very kind, and appreciated' to receive a passive aggressive birthday card?

I find it quite rude