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Neighbours washing - diagram included!

56 replies

Timetogetgone · Yesterday 20:34

I live in a ground floor maisonette and my garden backs on to my kitchen and I have windows from my bedroom (and bathroom) facing the garden. The weather has obviously been lush all day and I myself have done every single last piece of washing (feeling smug).

Just peered out my window to look at my flowers and seen my upstairs neighbours have hung their washing over our joining fence.

Not the crime of the century but it’s only just been hung up now at 8pm. It’s all overlapping and pieces of clothing are on the dirty, bird pooed fence.

I would love to show you a photo but it would be super putting outting.

To the ones who’ll go for the throat. It’s ok. This post is in jest but equally I can see my neighbours pants hanging off our joining fence - ew. Haha.

Neighbours washing -  diagram included!
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IrisApril · Yesterday 20:36

I wonder if a teenager was asked to “hang the laundry out” and this is what they came up with?

Petrolitis · Yesterday 20:37

They've put their clean washing on the actual fence!?

Do they not have a line?

Timetogetgone · Yesterday 20:40

IrisApril · Yesterday 20:36

I wonder if a teenager was asked to “hang the laundry out” and this is what they came up with?

No teenagers there, just a husband, wife and one year old. Maybe the one year old had a try? Haha.

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Timetogetgone · Yesterday 20:40

Petrolitis · Yesterday 20:37

They've put their clean washing on the actual fence!?

Do they not have a line?

I thought they did but yep, on the fence. And we have nesting starlings in the garden so they’ve pooed every where, including that lovely fence!

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Turnitoffnonagain · Yesterday 20:40

Ooh, the spiders are going to have a party on that washing overnight. 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 Doesn't your neighbour know what happens once it gets dark?

Timetogetgone · Yesterday 20:41

Turnitoffnonagain · Yesterday 20:40

Ooh, the spiders are going to have a party on that washing overnight. 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 Doesn't your neighbour know what happens once it gets dark?

Haha! Spider eggs in pants!

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FamingolosForDays · Yesterday 20:45

Turnitoffnonagain · Yesterday 20:40

Ooh, the spiders are going to have a party on that washing overnight. 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 Doesn't your neighbour know what happens once it gets dark?

😂😂😂😂 we've been here a long time 😂

Tableforjoan · Yesterday 20:46

The husband must be the idiot that put the washing out.

Ohcrap082024 · Yesterday 21:04

Oh my goodness, their washing is about to get darked on. “Filthy apeths”as my Nan would have said.

JanBlues2026 · Yesterday 21:10

Maybe they have some poo stained baby clothes and have put them on the fence to bleach out the stains and then going to re-wash them 🤷🏻‍♀️

BeeCucumber · Yesterday 21:14

Spider willies! 😱

OriginalSkang · Yesterday 21:15

Are you sure their line hasn't got stuck over the fence?

ToadRage · Yesterday 21:16

Are they British? I have a neighbour who puts her washing out at night. They have a line but at night seems odd. It confuses me and when I mentioned it to my husband he said maybe that's normal where they are from. They are Eritrean. Any Eritreans here who would like to confirm this for me?

Are they relatively new? I didn't have a washing line straightway when we moved in. i would pull my old clothes racks outside but I never hung it on the fence.

OriginalSkang · Yesterday 21:25

Putting it out at night is probably a good idea really. Especially if you're one of those people who doesn't want the neighbours to see your knickers. And then you can put it away in the morning and enjoy your washing free garden!

Slinkyminky22 · Yesterday 21:28

Yuck. I remember years ago, my old neighbour hung the bedsheets out to dry over his bins! Literally draped them over the wheelie bins to dry in the sun!

JustSawJohnny · Yesterday 21:48

Yeah, that's proper chavvy.

There's a woman in our village with a lovely little cottage that she cheapens hugely by hanging her undies on the little fence round by her front door.

People are random.

Yetone · Yesterday 21:49

I have just hung my washing out now. It will be dry in the morning and as it is dark clothes they will not get bleached by the sun.
I do it all the time.

Springbuck · Yesterday 21:51

FamingolosForDays · Yesterday 20:45

😂😂😂😂 we've been here a long time 😂

Oh yes, there will be spider willy wiping all over that washing 😀

NotTheOrdinary · Yesterday 22:03

JustSawJohnny · Yesterday 21:48

Yeah, that's proper chavvy.

There's a woman in our village with a lovely little cottage that she cheapens hugely by hanging her undies on the little fence round by her front door.

People are random.

House prices must have plummeted in your lovely little village because someone hung their knickers out. I bet the FB spotted page is full of disgusted posters.

NotTheOrdinary · Yesterday 22:04

The spider willy stuff is not funny. It never was.

Gettingbysomehow · Yesterday 22:06

Haha love the diagram 😂

LindorDoubleChoc · Yesterday 22:11

Yuck at the bird poo! Is it a wooden fence? The washing will get stained by that too!

I hung my washing out this evening. But all on a Minky clothes horse on my own patio, nowhere near the neighbours.

damemaggiescurledupperlip · Yesterday 22:11

If they’re going to be doing that regularly , I’d invest in some spray on bird poo

NoCommentingFromNowOn · Yesterday 22:22

Won’t the wet wood (fence) put weird marks on the clothes? Plus the fence is dirty, even without the bird poop.

Notashamed13 · Yesterday 22:25

Sorry OP, not something I could get worked up.about.