Do you dry your laundry outdoors and what do you call it?

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I LOVE pegging my washing out 12 months of the year if I possibly can.
it’s not just the freshness and the brightening of whites, there’s some kind of meditative satisfaction going on. And saving electricity of course.

I call it “pegging out” because that’s what my Mum called it.

Even on a freezing day like today it’ll get mostly dry and finish in the dryer

It can't get very windy where you are. My washing would be on the ground if I did that.

On another thread a poster has posted a link to a website called DryOutside.com. I didn't click on it but googled it and it is legitimate.

We have 94% humidity today so my bedding will be tumble dried today.

Reading it back it does sound a wee bit MN-ish, but I actually live in a teeny cottage in the Scottish Highlands, it's just I have a big garden!

Hanging out the washing or putting the laundry out. And I also hang out 12 months of the year, even up in North Yorkshire. If you pick your laundry day it's perfectly possible to get it dry or almost dry and just air it off indoors. I do have a heated airer for the really dreadful times though.

Oh, it gets windy! It’s a low level dryer and I also weight it down with filled hot water bottles.

I must admit my mind was boggling at "LARGE drying green" - I just assumed it would be something along these lines 😜

'putting the washing on the line'.

If I put my washing on the line at this time of year, it just stays wet till I bring it in.
Do you live in a dry windy area?
I'm in East anglia , so supposed to be a milder part of the country, but I feel the pegging out season is shorter than you'd think

"Hanging the washing out". I take great satisfaction in it. I own two holiday cottages so I do a lot of washing! I don't do it in the winter as we're on the coast and it's damp.

I don't have a tumble dryer despite doing up to 6 sets of bedding and towels a week. I use a heated aired and dehumidifier in the winter.

"Hanging out the washing" in this household. I have a 90ft back garden with lines running the full length. It's west facing so I start with the bit of the line furthest from the house and work my way towards the house as the sun comes around in the morning. I can get 3 loads out.
My grandparents had a "drying green" near their house where they lived until the 1990s. There was no back gardens in the terrace where they lived as the buildings had been built into a steep hillside and it was "common" to hang washing out front in the communal garden. However there was a communal piece of land at the side of the end of the terrace where everyone hung their washing.

It is quite big ...

I call it putting out or hanging out the washing, but it’s a bit damp out to do it today, and in winter it has to go out early or it’s pointless.
I like an app called laundry timer for working out whether it’s worth putting a load outdoors or not.

I’ve always called it hanging out the washing but I’ve moved to an area of Derbyshire where everybody “pegs out” and tbh that phrase makes my teeth itch. No idea why.

No point hanging it out in winter, waste of time as you just have to finish it off indoors or etc so you might as well save time and hang it indoors in the first place.

*waits for someone to trot out the old chestnut that if the pavement’s dry then your washing will dry - spoiler, no it won’t.

It's hang out the washing whilst singing the old war tune that we learned in primary school 35 years ago.

We're going to hang out the washing on the Siegfried line, 'cause the washing day is here 🎵

I‘m with @PuppyMonkey. What’s the point of hanging it outside in winter, it still then needs drying inside.

As much as I can I dry outside, I find it a calming task, pulling the items back into their shape, putting the items on so they get a good blow as my mother used to say.

I call it pegging out too, as well as if someone asks where I am, I'm out the line. Not great English but there you go 😂

I've stopped using plastic coloured pegs because having odd colours on an item I found very irritating (think that's an age thing for me), I use wooden pegs which don't annoy me, don't snap and hold onto items much stronger.

Indoors I have a sheila's maid airer which is utterly fabulous, its above a radiator and things dry overnight. I have other airers that I put in front of my aga. I've also bought racks to put on my aga to be able to dry overnight.

Because even at this time of year, it partly dries it so doesn't increase humidity so much indoors when you bring it in. I peg it out in the morning, fetch it in about 13:30 when the sun goes off the garden, and then hang it on an airer overnight - bingo, bone dry by morning.

However!!!!! The real reason for pegging it all out even in winter is that it is kissed by the winds and blessed by the garden fairies, obviously, duh!!! 🌞

@Hedgesgalore I know what you mean about coloured plastic pegs. I have some really nice ones, but always stress about them keeping each other company, so there are lots of decisions to be made about "reuniting" same-colour families or encouraging more "social" integration by mixing them up 🤡

I‘m with . What’s the point of hanging it outside in winter, it still then needs drying inside.
Thats like saying you only put your washing out in tbe summer months But it also rains and can be cold in tbe summer as well!
I dry according to the weather outside.
I got a load dry yesterday.
Ive washed th dogs blankets this morning and they are nearly done.

As long as the ground is dry I hang out the laundry. I left it out once when I popped out and it snowed slightly but it was windy and it still dried. I cannot wait for drier weather

I’m both amazed and impressed at the people who actually enjoy this!
I’ve spent my life hanging washing inside or out and getting a dryer in the last couple of years has been a revelation!
I still hang washing on the line in good weather (as DH would moan about the expense otherwise) but have no indoor rack or space for one now so the dryer it is, I can’t believe how quickly you can get a whole load done, even mattress protectors that drip on the line for ever, total game changer!

Pegging out

OH does the laundry and he likes to hang it on the line. Says it smells fresher, sometimes though he has to admit defeat snd use the drier.

I hang out/peg out/put out washing. I say all 3 😂 I don't hang anything out in the winter though as I find it either doesn't dry, or I can't tell if stuff is still wet or dry but just cold. So it ends up coming inside and going on the heated airer anyway.

I think for me it’s the nice smell and not wanting humidity indoors.
my load this morning was mostly dry by 4pm and I’ll just finish in the dryer.
love my Sheila Maid and I have an extractor fan that senses humidity right above it.

Hanging out, year round if weather is agreeable though through the winter I don’t wait for good weather whereas in summer I check forecast before putting the washing on

'Putting the washing out' here. I don't bother in winter though, I have space for a clothes horse in the boiler cupboard so it all goes on there.

Come Spring when it eventually goes out, my crappy plastic pegs shatter and I end up jeffing, then go to the local shop to buy another pack of cheap crappy plastic pegs.
Every year.
Without fail.
I'm an idiot.