Yes I am but I don't care

[RunawayWife]

I have just got the washing in, mostly school uniform for tomorrow as it it bloody photos, and I have had to put most of it back in the wash as it is covered and I mean covered in bird droppings .

So from now on I do not care if it is 100 degrees outside I am not putting washing out I am going to use the tumble. I can afford to and I don't really give a stuff about the melting ice caps.
Also I am going to get a saw and cut off every branch of next doors cherry tree that is so much as one inch over the dividing fence.

I am also never going to feed the birds again in the hope they all die this winter.....

Yes I know I am being unreasonable but I will now be up to gone midnight waiting for the wash to stop, then drying it then Ironing it.....

(fed up face)

Please do not tell DP about the tumble as he says it cost too much and he is a tree hugger

Well you are washing it again and then tumble drying it, which is a greater carbon footprint than if you had just tumble dried it first time around

So, tumble dry away m'dear

LOL! Actually, YANbeingallthatU...

I feel your pain OP! And I know that I use the tumbly far more often than is strictly necessary... but I do recycle and 'stuff'

YANBU at all.

I always tumble school uniform (bar the sweatshirts - they go over the radiator)

I cannot risk anything happening!

I'm with you runaway...tumbles were invented by some very dedicated hardworking person, much like dishwashers, and it seems rude and a complete waste of time and effort to just leave them sitting there, cold and lonely in the kitchen.

YANBU!

Ah, I tumble dry everything as my dogs see washing lines as an extension of their food bowls. We would have no clothes left.

YABU and irresponsible, thankfully there are some people who do have some kind of conscience about the environment.

I suspect that people living in the poorest nations of the word do give a stuff about the melting ice caps - unfortunately they rely on selfish people like you to actually take some action about the climate change caused by people like you that affects people like them.

I dont have a tumble dryer. Winter is a bitch!!

Has this happened before? Do you have seagulls near you?

I ask because one, yes one, seagull shat on our car and it covered the front windscreen, the whole of one side of the car, the roof and dh's shoulder (from the open passenger window). Yeauch!

I'm sure whoever invented washing lines wasn't British!

My neighbours frequently hang their washing out and then go to work...it then pishes down...what is the point?!

MamaSparkle - what about the carbon footprint of your computer/lap top??? The software you use, electricity usage etc??

Maybe you should switch off mumsnet, light a candle and er...knit?

Can you move your washing line? If it's one of those rotary ones just get a new soil spike and put it somewhere else?

Or get an indoor rack?

YANBU

I do exactly the same

I do so love my tumble drier < happy sigh>

I save all the uniform up and do it at the weekend, I am kicking myself now.
I would have got it in earlier but we went to my great aunts for her 90th birthday so I was already thinking I will be ironing at gone 9 o'clock, now it will be even later.

Good point about the sweat shirts , I can't tumble them, sod it I will have to put the heating on.

What on earth are the local birds eating I would like to know, next doors bloody cherry's for a start but I think they must have all had a sodding curry then flocked to the washing line

Oh well, at least I can load the dishwasher while I am waiting, and I could put the hot water on so I can have a bath.

YABU, you could send your DC in uniforms covered in poo you know! It's not going to do them any harm. So what if they look silly in their photos...

That's my gripe about putting washing on the line too. Bloody bird poo! And here if you leave it out for a while you get spiders making webs between the clothes! Grrr! I only have a washer dryer though so don't tend to tumble dry much, except towels in winter.

I tumble dry because if I put it in the garden it will get covered in spiders and cobwebs. No idea why, or where they come from, because we sit in the garden and don't get cobwebbed, but the washing always does.....

Or I hang it indoors on a clothes horse. Try that. If you always have an airer in the doorway or middle of the living room blocking the TV your DH may change his mind.

YANBatallU. If I had to choose between my tumble drier and DH I would honestly have to stop and think about it

If you can suggest an alternative way to use my laptop that would save energy then please enlighten me. There are alternatives to tumbledrying, though.

We also use a green energy supplier.

My main problem is the OP saying she couldn't give a stuff about the environment - such a typically ignorant Western attitude.

And yes we do actually use candles a lot in the summer, and I do knit!{smile}

I don't see many seagulls but we have 1000s of those little green parrot type birds, magpies, starlings, a robin and a black bird that is bursting with joy come 4AM.

X post with Wanderingsheep. Are you my next door neighbour?

bummer about the bird poo - but outdoor line dried clothes are just so so lovely! (I'm about to hang my washing on airing rack in living room (no alternatives - that's my city living)