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?

Actually, I think you ought to order a load of cheaply trashy Shein sexytime undies and hang them out - really lurid colours, thongs pinned to face their way, crotch less, gimpmasks, the lot.

Every single person in the world uses an outdoor space (if they have one) to dry their clothes and so why does she think you’re in the minority.

I only know of a handful of people who even have a dryer.

Your neighbour is a real weirdo.

Genius.

Can ‘Fuck off’ be done?

So bizarre that she's saying it's spoiling her enjoyment of her own garden... from her window! It's in YOUR garden and surely people go into their gardens to enjoy it rather than look at it through glass. Also god forbid her husband sees some empty underwear! He might start to realise that every woman has underwear their clothes!

I'm in the US. The subdivision I live in has by-laws against hanging washing outside. However, I live in a "right to dry" state so that state law overrides local restrictions.

Are you in the UK? I know Americans are really weird about washing lines, they have these "homeowners associations" that dictate how your garden can look, the colour you can paint your front door and outlaw hanging washing outside. Fuking weird.

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• Mrs. Richards: When I pay for a view, I expect something more interesting than that.
• Basil Fawlty: [going to window, indicating] Well, that is Torquay, ma'am.
• Mrs. Richards: Well, it's not good enough.
• Basil Fawlty: Well, may I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeasts swinging majestically...

Yes it is. Depends where you live, the suburbs around Washington DC are extremely strict. Woe betide you if your lawn isn't professionally mown every week. My parents lived there for years.

That's mad. There's nothing better than a line of washing! I'd peg out nothing but bright red thongs and lacy bras just to wind her up more

Ohh think of some fun things you can dry on your line ..

• gimp suit
• batman suit
• leopard print mankini
• dildo
• sumo pants
• black and white burglar outfit
• a collection of balaclavas
• sexy poljcewoman outfit
• mr blooby costume

I would do one per week for my own amusement

How ridiculous!
We're end of terrace too, we've always dried outside, as everyone used to, but our current neighbours don't even have a washing line!
Weirdly, my own mother used to say I shouldn't hang smalls on the line (or wash on a Sunday), so I now take great delight in doing so 😁

“Stop gawping at my knickers, Sandra, you pervert.”

I spent some time in a ville in France where the mayor had decreed that washing shouldn’t be hung up outside to dry and guess what I hung up my washing outside and nothing happened!

On good drying days I’m slightly obsessive about getting as much laundry done as possible, which is not like me at all. Can’t waste that sunshine!

She would hate to live next door to me, i always have washing on the line. As for seeing underwear, so what, is it really that different to seeing a bikini on a beach ?

I'm proper invested in this thread now 😆
I came back for the comments 🍿
They did not disappoint 🙌

One poster said a rubber chicken = genius 💯
And I've never wanted someone to buy a gimp mask so badly now 😆 🤣 😂

Tell us OP.... are you going to but any crazy items? 🤔 😆 🤣
This is brilliant.
Your neighbour is wacko 🤦‍♀️

That's brilliant!

I’ve currently got 2 loads out across two lines, with another nearly finished in the machine 👍

Most people here have them too, but that doesn’t mean you have to use them for every wash! Far better to hang washing out where you can. I don’t have a garden I can hang mine in but I still hang them indoors most of the time rather than use the dryer. Use the dryer for bedding mostly.

She sounds like a nutcase. Here are some ideas for stuff you might urgently need to hang out on your line to dry:

• a willy warmer belonging to your DH/DP/DS etc
• a pair of long johns
• some fishnet tights
• a crotchless lace bodysuit
• a giant pair of bloomers
• a pair of those velour tracksuit bottoms with “Juicy” written across the arse

Great fun to be had with this one

She sounds like an oddball. She would hate it where I live. Everyone pegs out their clothes if the weather is fine. I never notice when my neighbors have their clothes out or not except for one neighbor. She seems to know it is going to rain even when the sky is blue. If she is taking hers in I am taking mine in too.

Land of the free...

That's mad.

She's batshit. Are you the only house in the row that uses a washing line, or is she policing everyone?

I love hanging washing out on the line - it's one of life's few free pleasures. She's ruining your joy.

She once messaged me when I was at work to ask if she should bring my laundry in because it would be dry…no thank you, stay out of my garden please. I think I left it out overnight that time (spiders willys don’t bother me, IYKYK)