Is it common to hang out your washing?

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I'm not talking about hanging your washing up in the back garden obviously. I live in a maisonette so hang my washing out on a clothes airer on the balcony. It's visible from the street (busy main road), but I always hide my underwear on the inside of the airer.

Anyway, I heard of a few cases recently of people having clauses in their contracts which forbade them from hanging washing out on their balconies, so as not to bring down the tone of the area. I was quite surprised by this.

So am I being terribly common? Would it be better if I had a washing line going from one end of the balcony to the other instead of using the airer?

Think of it as saving the environment-it is much better to dry it naturally outside.

we have a clause in our contract that every house in our terrace (4 houses) has the right to hang their washing in our garden

(they dont, they have their own lines in their gardens, but they do still have the legal right to use ours if they so wish!!!)

i mean the deeds... we own the house

In germany, you're not allowed to hang out your washing in the garden at all!

whoops - was meant to say on a Sunday!!!

Italians seem to have made it ober cool.
What is common on balconies rusty fridges, old plastic flowers, discarded tins of beer.
Now what should be against the law for any woman to do housework on Sunday and for a man not to do housework on Sunday.

We wernt allowed to hang washing out on the balcony in our top floor apartment when we lived there. When we bought the house where we live now for the first summer i kept forgetting we had a line!! Was such a novelty having one. Now i hang washing out and find it a shame when i have none to do and the weather is nice lol.

BTW i hang my undies on the line, if people dont like it they dont have to look but saying that one nighbour cannot see into my garden because of the garage and the other is a woman who lives on her own so i dont think shed be having a good stare at my undies!! Well i hope not anyway

Tumble dryers rape the environment! Hang your laundry in any outdoor space you have!

We used to live on a canal boat and had a permanent mooring next to a main road. Often I would use my rotary washing line on a parasol base just to really piss my mum off as she hated us living on a boat. Until the day I had overloaded it and it had tipped over and half were in the canal. Looking back, even I think that was a tad vulger and would hate my daughter to do it.

Hanging clothes outside is great! Saves money too from tuble drier bills, esp. if your house isn't draughty! And great in summer if you live in the countryside.

It's one of the many things I do

www.energyrethinking.org/at_home

I don't own a tumble drier so my laundry always goes outside unless it's pissing down. I am that tragic woman who smiles on a sunny day because I'll be able to get my towels dry.

lol @ all the knicker hiders - mine go on the line in the corner of the garden that can't be seen from the front or by the neighbours