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Please can you good housekeepers answer a question for me?

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OrmIrian · 09/05/2007 13:17

Following on from an AIBU thread just now. I did ask for enlightenment there but got no joy and I really really want to know. If your washing gets rained on, do you feel obliged to wash it all over again. And if so why? I don't. I didn't think that rain was that dirty.

If you do, why? I've heard other people say the same thing beforfe and I don't understand. Please. Am now wondering if I'm a laundry slut .

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AngharadGoldenhand · 09/05/2007 13:18

I don't.

AngharadGoldenhand · 09/05/2007 13:20

Perhaps we need a emoticon?

twinsetandpearls · 09/05/2007 13:20

If my washing gets rained on I am so full of self congratulatory bile over the factI maanged to get it on the line that there is no way I would have time or inclination to wash it again.

speccy · 09/05/2007 13:21

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Mumpbump · 09/05/2007 13:25

I wouldn't, dh probably would. I usually just leave it until it has dried again...

yaddayah · 09/05/2007 13:25

if had gone mouldy ... perhaps i might.. otherwise no wouldn't even cross my mind

Wallace · 09/05/2007 13:27

Not at all. Isn't rain a natural softener? I don't know anyone who would rewash it. Give it a spin if it was soaked, maybe.

MellowMa · 09/05/2007 13:29

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bobsmum · 09/05/2007 13:29

I would have when I lived in the SE of England. WE had to clean the insides of our cars so often because of the muck in the air. If I'd put a whites wash on the line and it rained there would be definite dirty marks and streaks which I wasn't happy with.

Now I live in Scotland in the middle of nowhere and a rain soaked washing is stain free and still fresh smelling

daisy1999 · 09/05/2007 13:31

I wash it again if it rains - don't know why though

FiveFingeredFiend · 09/05/2007 23:41

What a waste of water.

moondog · 09/05/2007 23:43

Mine has been on the line since Monday and rained on three times.

Pruni · 09/05/2007 23:58

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Flamesparrow · 10/05/2007 00:02

Moondog - DS's t-shirt has been out there since Monday... I planned for the sun to bleach out a stain, but the wind blew it so its looped up hiding said stain, and it has been rained on for 24 hrs straight now.

MrsThierryHenry · 10/05/2007 00:07

Man alive, I can't imagine rewashing just because of a bit of rain. What about if you drop a sock on the ground and there's no visible muck - would you put it back in the laundry basket?

KerryMum · 10/05/2007 00:12

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UCM · 10/05/2007 00:13

Nope, better acid rain than the chemicals I have just used in me washing

WendyWeber · 10/05/2007 00:31

THere's a cement works just up the road here but the air is muckier when it's dry than when it rains - our cars are filmed with dust all the time except in wet spells.

Anyway if you lob it all in the dryer for 10 mins when you bring it in (dry, not wet) the dryer takes all the dust out

unknownrebelbang · 10/05/2007 00:34

Never actually get round to putting mine out.

(That could have something to do with the fact that one of my little darlings once cut all the lines on my rotary drier.....never did work out which one it was, or if it was a joint effort, but it's never been replaced.)

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OrmIrian · 10/05/2007 10:24

Thankyou. Consensus seems to be the it isn?t necessary then. I did wonder. On another site I used to visit I had seen others saying that they did this and I was a bit . I agree that if the air is full of cr*p it might be necessary. We live in a smallish town but in quite a rural area so maybe the air is cleaner. I struggle with my laundry as it is ? couldn?t imagine doing it again because of normal rain.

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