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?
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Or is my neighbour about my laundry...?
laundryninja · 26/05/2017 15:14
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. 
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.
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....)
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
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
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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. 
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