If your washing is outside on the line in the afternoon

[IorekByrnison]

and it's still damp when night falls, do you take it in or leave it out (assuming you're not expecting rain)?

If it's going to be dry and I can'tbebothered forget, it stays out. How ever I tend to get it all done earlier so don't often have this problem, as I set the washing machine to start at 7 am.
If I do have a load that has just finished of an evening I'll put it on the airer.

I have cunningly redesigned my whole back garden so that the neighbours cannot see my washing at all. Washing could stay out for weeks without sniffy judgement. Result.

I would not know what time of day it was if I was wandering in and out all times of the day and night with washing

Summer

Dry day

8.25am washing out

6.15pm washing in

Clothes away

Wet day

8.25am drink tea

6.15pm drink tea

Winter

8.25am washing on airer

6.15pm washing off airer

Clothes away

I don't want to be thinking about my washing at midnight thanks v much

my neighbours washing has been out for three days now...THREE its a communal garden as well, so no one else can get thier stuff up. We have a high seagul population...wonder how many times its been shat on

you have to go into the garden with bare feet so you can absorb energy from the earth and balance your root chakra

you've got to multitask in this day and age

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you think I'm joking don't you

Cannot bear washing out overnight - grates on me big time. My neighbour leaves hers out for what feels like days!!!

We live very close to the sea, and next to a busy port, so come evening there is a dampness about the air and if washing is lefto ut too long there is black crap from the docks all over it.

Washing goes out in the morning, usually about 8.30am, dry by 10.30am and maybe put another load out to bring in after lunch.

Anything else after that goes on airer or in tumble dryer.

BRING THE WASHING IN YOU SLATTERNS!!!!

"pikey test"????
Life is too short, surely.
Mine stays out at night, there are just as many insects inside as outside where I live. More inside actually, due to food moth infestation which seems to be affecting most of the country.

If it's been a serial laundry, multi-load day then the last load may stay out overnight. Rather that than damp laundry festooned around the house, methinks, as I'm too poor ecologically-aware to have a tumble drier and don't care to get up at 6pm to hang it out again at sunrise.

It stays outside, come rain or shine.

Morals say no tumble drying in the summer. I broke my airer pissed one night. Feckin' thing just jumped out on me.

So I put up a washing line in the bathroom too, that's for the 'smalls'. No knickers out on the line for me!

I am lol at the "no knickers out on the line" comment. I was just remarking to DH a few weeks ago that I never see our neighbour's underwear on the line. Was wondering if she wore any! Her DH's and DS's boxers go out though...

I put everything out.

No, I can't bear to leave mine out, tried it once and I spent all night fretting about it.

Mind you washing in our garden dries very quickly so if I put washing out a 4 in this weather it is usually dry an hour later.

I left my whites out too long and they went half yellow - the side facing sun. I thought sun would make them whiter but it didn't!

I leave it out.

In fact, I have been known to leave it out for a couple of days when it has rained, and I have thought to myself it is bloody well going to stay out there until it dries.