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?

My neighbours are elderly churchgoers. With no compunction about putting underwear on the line - and why should they?

This is isn't methodism, it is insanity.

Unless you're hanging out your Gimp mask and dominatrix gear to air I'd ignore.

I'll bet her DH is a secret knicker watcher.

Yanby, although tbh I don't hang my undies out on the line either. Mainly cos I can't be arsed - I just drape it round the sides of the wash basket. Dries a treat.

Sorry to derail. I do support your right to continue hanging yours out though.

So hanging your underwear on your washing line is wrong.

But sending your husband to talk to your neighbour about his wife's underwear is PERFECTLY OK.

Yanbu I mean

specialsubject - I don't know anything about Methodists but I do know that Wee Frees (Free Church of Scotland) are very strict and always looking out for sinfulness.

Like women wearing trousers or parents letting their kids play on a Sunday etc. etc.

maybe you should go and hang the washing out in your pants? What a weirdo, I thought my neighbours were strange.

Unless they are crotchless studded leather bras and knickers she can mind her own business. oh please go and get some specifically for pearl clutcher.

@NavyandWhite well your entitled to your opinion I guess. But really, it's not grim!

Also DH is mainly responsibly for the laundry, I just happen to have the day off. I wonder if she'd have said anything if it was him she was watching peg things out?

Their garden is a horror show anyway, I'd be more miserable at staring directly out at that than sideways at someone else's washing line.

Oh I do love a "batshit crazy neighbour" thread. I am not shamelessly placemarking at all. Oh no

Seriously I would be tempted to wash every bit of underwear in the house. If you have anything racy then get it out there.

In what way is their garden a "horror show"?

I need to know!

I can't believe she's sending her DH over to talk to your DH, as if you're a child who needs telling off!

Time to spring clean the ball gag, anal beads and the dusty cat o' nine tails languishing in your sex cupboard, I think.

DH has some pretty terrible garish boxers that I mistakenly let him buy at Universal Studios. They have T Rexes on.
Cool So envious..... (Heads off to do online search for dinosaur boxers....)

Idly wondering if navyandwhite does any washing of her undies.
Personally I think clothes dried outside smells fabulously fresh.

Does she think you should be knickerless?

Hahahaha she's bonkers!!! I have a primary school aged DS and can't imagine going up to the neighbours and telling them not to dry their undercrackers on the line
I'd be tempted to put a nice array of them out there - some great big frilly bloomers waving in the wind, along with some crotchless panties should do it

If he does come round to talk about it i think i would ask him into the garden and very seriously look at the line and ask him if each bit is offensive, one after the other. Thus exposing her menfolk even more blatantly to your reckless pant wearing. Unless if course you think he sould enjoy it - in that case set your lunging DH on him

of and would

Sorry!

This is brilliant! Following with glee

Haha Salmotrutta perhaps horror show is too much. They have a big conservatory that looks nice and takes up about 1/3 of the garden. After that there is a stagnant pond that has been getting stagnant-er since we moved in in October, an ex-lawn overgrown with weeds and abandoned rusty toys. Mysterious sharp sticky-up things. A fox died in there in March and they ignored it for 2 weeks, in the end my DH climbed over the fence and buried the poor thing in the back of our garden. I wouldn't want my DCs playing in there!

I mean I'm no Charlie Dimmock (I wear bras, for one thing...) but our garden is safe and OK to look at.

Buckingham- love it. I am going to repurpose a cabinet as a "sex cupboard" immediately

Still no NDN DH

YANBU, what a crazy lady! she sounds like an old neighbor who used to knock on my door at 6am if the foxes had been at the bins so that 'I could sort it out before the man of the house woke up', I don't know how I bit my tongue considering DS was a newborn at the time.

That said growing up we lived in a ground floor flat at one point, our neighbors balcony was directly above ours, she'd constantly hang out really long sheets that completely covered ours and just hovered above the ground.

My DMs neighbour never hangs her smalls outside.
She thinks it's "common"

Haha brilliant! Please raid primark for a gazillion leopard print thongs and deck the garden!!