Leaving washing out over night

[Justusemyname]

I didn't get the memo so put the washing in the drier, went out and it was blazing sunshine all afternoon. Grr. Just put a wash on and realised I have to dry it. Not sure pegging out at five will dry it in the hour or two but as I think we're forecasted lovely hot weather this weekend I thought I'd just leave it overnight. Any reason this is not a good idea?

I left pegs on the line once and my neighbour came to the door and asked DP to take the pegs in and informed him that it was "lazy wifeing" and "attracts birds".

A spin dryer's what you need for drying quickly. Amazing little machine.

We don't get dew every day and so long as there's a breeze it soon blows dry again.

I've just taken in the load I put out at 5.30, bone dry .

I always find it smells funny if you leave it out. Plus the bugs.

I've never had a problem with dew or bugs or smell.

Justuse I don't leave it on when I'm out or in bed because I don't trust it. I can't afford to replace it just yet.

The smell is sort of damp, and definitely not the nice fresh just washed smell you get in the day.

Lazy wifeing!? Wtf? Was he an actual caveman?

BastardGoDarkly It was a woman who said it! An elderly woman but still.

I often leave washing on the line overnight. It seems it's because I'm Irish.

I think it smells lovely and fresh when it's been dried outside

The woman I knew who was horrified at overnight line drying was Irish, sorry to disprove your theory gointothewoods

It does ThatCow if it's been dried outside during the day.

It's hardly lazy when you've specifically left it out to dry as opposed to can't be arsed to get it in. Even if you can't be arsed, it's hardly the crime of the century.

I don't have a tumble drier or a lot of room in the house and sometimes I dry overnight on the line.

No smells, no bugs, no dew.

I can't tell the difference, Sparkling. I just brought in some towels that I put our yesterday morning (I do know how slatternly that sounds!) and they smelt lovely

I purposely do this in the 'summer'

I don't have time in the morning to peg out as it's an early start but I can wash and peg put a couple of loads in the evening and they're dry when I'm home from work

Fluffy, you don't say . Not al of us want to waste electricity when there's a perfectly good sun that can dry the washing.

My biggest worry would be theft, not dew, spiders or the neighbors opinion.

There's only two of us that regularly hang laundry out, of the 40 or so apartments backed onto the lane. We both seem to wash on Monday, and i find muself disturbingly pleased to get my first load out before her. Not that it does me much good, she has the morning sun, mines in shade until around 11!

Well it just means you can dry a load quicker in the winter so I don't need a tumble dryer.

My electric and gas combined is £29 a month so I'm not into wasting electric either.

I have a spin dryer (barrel-shaped centrifugal wringer) like Fluffy and it's great. 2800 rpm is impossible to find in a domestic washing machine and since it doesn't heat up it's extremely cheap to run. The clothes are 90% dry when they come out. Invaluable for handwashing woollies, too!

A TUMBLE DRYER, on the other hand, is an energy gobbling machine!

I find that our washing smells the best if its been on the line overnight/in the sun. apparently the sun creates its own scent chemical
Theft is the biggest worry I have though, sometimes I use DM's line (she lives next door) and I often worry that jeans or some of ds2's very few designer hoodies will get stolen. Did have a free standing rotary airer that I used to pop up in our back garden to compensate for the low line space, but the bastard thing collapsed under the weight of the washing!!
I've ordered a wall mounted airer thing off amazon, Im so exited!! things that make me happy worry me as I get older

Well, I stuck another load on the line at 10.30 last night, it was bone dry by 8.30 this morning .

I'm intrigued by the 'lazy' comments. Are you supposed to set your alarm for 2.00 am to go out and check for dryness? Or is it the assumption that you have sat around drinking coffee during the morning when you should have been hard at the washboard and mangle?

What's this about pegs? I think I've been doing it wrong for years then as I leave them clipped to the line. They get brittle quick, spiders in the gaps and I replace them probably twice a year. Does everybody else store them in a box when not in use?

I never leave mine out overnight, but that is mostly because half of the line is under trees that birds roost in, so if I leave it out too long there is a very good chance my clean washing will get bird crap all over it.

I use wooden ones and always bring them in after use, they live in a cross body style peg bag on a hook just inside the back door, lose a few and break the odd one but they generally last years. We have two long lines, have just changed to retractable ones so the pegs have to go away, but when I had fixed lines I used to take them in as they were right in the sightline from the kitchen window and looked awful.