AIBU to think drying washing outside is still normal?

[BlueyandBingo]

Just getting a load of washing in and DH has declared that no one dries their washing outside anymore and that it is ‘niche’.

Don’t get me wrong, I use the tumble dryer when I need to but surely it is better (and cheaper) to use the line, especially on a day like to day when we have had sunshine and a breeze??

Everyone drys their washing outside. Or at least all my neighbours do. What on earth is niche about using fresh air and sunshine to dry clothes rather than electricity? Why is your dh being so odd? Why does he care?

The environmental cost, and the money?

I always assume people who never line dry have plastic grass.

The environmental cost, and the money?

I always assume people who never line dry have plastic grass.

Normal where we live. Most people around our way have a washing line in the back garden. I love this time of year, washing smells so nice and fresh when line dried.

I dry my washing outside whenever possible! Yes, I have a tumble dryer in the garage, but that's used more in the winter months, when it's wet. I only use the tumble dryer to dry towels or bedding in the winter. The rest of the clothes are dried on a clothes airer in the spare bedroom, with a dehumidifier on.

Even when her dementia was quite advanced my DM loved the sight of a line of washing drying in the sun,I'd look up to her bedroom window and see her with her big smile watching me hang the washing out to dry. Now she's gone I still think of her when I hang the washing out

of course it’s normal! I live in a flat so no space for a dryer. All my drying is done on the balcony.

Ltb

I dry it outside (no tumble dryer) but it never feels properly dry so I always have to rotate it on the clothes horse - takes forever.

I know the answer. He’s too lazy. It’s a lot easier to just throw it all in the tumble instead of all the pegging and unpegging. I personally love the washing line but DH literally can’t be arsed with it when there’s an easier option.

Depends where you live. I think I'm the only person in my neighborhood with a washing line. I dry nearly all my washing outside. A few of my neighbours think I'm a bit odd and one asked me if it was because I couldn't afford a tumble dryer 🤣

Using the big, free ball of fire in the sky to dry your washing when weather permits isn't niche, no. Your DH is a weirdo.

Where do you live?

Your dh isn’t a Yank, is he? My younger Dsis, who’s lived in the US for decades, says that hanging washing outside is seen there as a sign of either poverty or madness!

In the U.K. IMO most people appreciate that drying washing outside is both economical and planet-friendly.

The ironing in Africa is done BECAUSE the clothes dry outside and may have putzi fly larvae in them. If they are dried inside they won't have larvae on them, so ironing not needed (other than to look smart).
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Shows how little your husband helps with the washing if he thinks its unusual

Unless you have severe hay fever then that is a big no-no 🤣🤣

First hint of sunshine and a breeze and generations of my Scottish grannies start calling me their siren song from beyond the grave 'looks a rare drying day....'
Got all my bedding and towels out today, they have been appeased.

I am the only person on my 12 house street that has ever put washing on the line. The other 11 houses are odd, I don't get it (Unless they all have awful hayfever).

I never dry the washing outside because the DC and I have hay fever. I tumble what I can and the rest is drying rack + dehumidifier.

My week’s supply of clean knickers have dried beautifully today outside.

If it's fine out, my washing goes out! The only thing that I do not just line-dry is the towels. I had a childhood of towels that had dried horizontally to the line and were like sandpaper, courtesy of being line-dried in a wind tunnel! The towels go for a quick spin in the dryer to fluff them up.

Most of my clothes I can't put in a dryer anyway even if we had one, so love it when can get things dry outside. Waiting for the sun to hit the garden properly though, as North facing. Your hubby is talking nonsense!

Use a desk fan to keep air moving around the laundry and it will dry quicker.

I only know 2 or 3 people who even own a tumble dryer!

Most people I know use clothes racks.