Or is my neighbour about my laundry...?

[laundryninja]

Name changed in case she's on mumsnet

Don't know NDN well. We are quiet and (I thought!) inoffensive so no issues for the last 6 months we've lived here. There's a low fence between our gardens.

Given that I live in the west of scotland, it's a rare opportunity to hang clothes out on the line to dry, which DH and I have been doing the past few days.

Today NDN appeared at the door and asked me to "be more careful" with my laundry. I initially thought something had blown into her garden and apologised. She said no, that us hanging out "personal items" was embarrassing for her and she didn't want her young sons (who are late primary age I think) seeing things like that. After clarifying she meant bras and knickers I admit I snorted with laughter a bit and said "but don't they see YOUR pants drying indoors!?" to which she said that I clearly didn't want to help and that she'd ask her DH to come over later to speak to my DH once he's in from work!

I have not brought my laundry in and have just done another load. She's glaring from her conservatory. AIBU to ignore her? Or should I bring my offensive undies in off the line?

Offblackeggshell, I have huge bras too, big enough to be a hat. Good job she doesn't live next door to me!

Yes, the USA restriction is strange. I must admit to putting things out on the clothes horse outside surreptitiously in Florida, The weather is so beautiful.

Pestilen
I've not heard an update - would love to know

OH!!!!!

Why did I not think of this earlier?!

PANTHEAD!!!! :o

Sorry for the total over reaction but Panthead, an invented tradition in the Kipperbang family, would be brilliant for this!

When DSis and I were kids our aunt would always send us a birthday gift each. And every single year it would be pants. OK, we wore pants, pants are useful. Except that they would always be at least 2 years too big so as we were opening this years gift we would probably be wearing the gift from 2 or 3 birthdays ago. So we invented panthead and it happens to this day. If anyone in the family gets pants for a gift they have to wear them on their head until lunchtime and one Xmas we replaced christmas paper crowns with various styles of pants. My father in a dayglo green lace thong was something to behold :o

Then one day last summer I went into the garden to see the 4 youngest all running around wearing each others (clean off the line) pants on their heads and throwing clothes pegs. The rules being that if you hit the pants on anothers head with a peg then you got a point, if it attached then it was like catching the snitch in Quidditch.

Best.Game.Ever. and perfect if you have pant hating neighbours! If you dont have kids then borrow/hire some, if only because its a wonderful spectator sport! :o

PyongyangKipperbang

This thread has jogged a fond old memory of my mother drying the family smalls by hanging them off various branches and bushes in the garden. It was like playing 'hunt the pants' if I was asked to bring the washing in

Pear another great game for the OP to play! :o

Buy a job lot of butt plugs and hang those up on the line.

Do you have a window that overlooks them? Can you sellotape a pair of pants onto it?!

My husband says put a high fence or hedge up, his view is she should never have commented, but as you need to live there get some privacy going on and put in a high fence or hedge and you'll all be happy...,

You need these pants LaundryNinja

It must be the day for nutty, washing phobic neighbours. Mine came round earlier to complain that our bedsheets were blowing over the low wall and into their garden. We live in a terraced house with a tiny garden at the front and they weren't even in their garden.

If I had your neighbours I would buy themed pants and have a pair out permanently. I'm thinking christmas pants, Easter pants, Hanukkah pants...... the possibilities are endless.

I disagree Bluntness. OP seems perfectly happy to me. Do you know how much a full height fence or hedge costs?!

If anyone should be spending money here it's the batshit neighbours.

I agree with Pear

If the neighbours dont like to see other peoples washing on the line then they are at perfect liberty to put up a fence in their garden, but its not the OPs job to do it.

SenecaFalls
I find it genuinely sweet your holiday photos included your washing line. Also think you should absolutely exercise your Right To Dry. Mumsnet will support you. (Unless you get carried away & let stuff Get Darked On. You're on your own then...)

laundryninja
All the points to your DH for his use of eejitery, a word that deserves more airings. Also, I love that your [adorable] kitten looks as if it is baffled by the laundry ridiculousness. Kittens ftw! (More posts should have bonus!felines... I would also settle for puppies... or bunnies... or hedgehogs...)

Hang on, what?! Hanging washing outside is commonly banned in the U.S.?! But why? I literally cannot think of a single possible reason (other than hating the environment or being massive, massive ridiculous prude). There's sun and fresh air out there (well not here, I live in Cumbria), why not use it?

If anyone should be spending money here it's the batshit neighbours

Agree, totally, but I'd be not wanting to put up with the conservatory glaring, the home visits etc so I'd personally just block them out...😂.

I mean, seriously, they're clothes. Everyone wears them.

OP,

God help my search history, but I have found the most perfect Mumsnet stunt (pineapple) 'undergarment' for maximum washing line shock value:

Voilà!
Behold the beauty that is a "Burlesque pineapple merkin c-string"
(yup, you read that right: c-string).

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/526692783/pineapple-merkin-c-string-womens?ref=market

Hang on, what?! Hanging washing outside is commonly banned in the U.S.?!

Not commonly banned. Likely only if you live in a subdivision with a Homeowner's Association.

ZebraOwl Laundry became quite a theme on our last visit to Scotland. We actually only had one or two days when we could dry outside, so most of our laundry photos are of underwear artfully arranged indoors. In one place, we had one of those ceiling rack things that hangs in the kitchen. We took pictures of clothes drying on that too.

DH also says that one of his best days on that trip was the day he and my sister-in-law went to a laundromat in Edinburgh and the electricity went off; they basically spent the day there waiting for it to be repaired and visiting with all the other patrons.

Your dh is amazing

they basically spent the day there waiting for it to be repaired and visiting with all the other patrons.

Clarification needed!

Visiting here means going to someones house (or hospital ward, wherever) and seeing them. My american friend once said that her DD "visited with me" while friend was working which I think meant sitting with, chatting etc. Is that right?

Yes, sitting and chatting. In American venacular, can be anywhere.

Now, I have one. I think I may have figured it out from context, but what exactly is getting "darked on"?

Seneca,

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2399948-To-love-hanging-the-washing-out-in-the-middle-of-the-night

Explains it all here.