The Clothes Line

My old (and old-fashioned) uncle lives alone and uses the dryer even on hot dry days...would not use the line in case someone saw him :pac: Tis a woman's job after all.

Clothes on balconies can make even the nicest apartment block look like tenements, but at the same time it is beyond ridiculous to have clothes on a horse thing spread out in the living room, all that damp can't be good either.

Apartments should have utility rooms with windows, where you can hang up clothes...that's what they do in Brazil, makes a lot of sense. Inside - so they wont get rained on (and quick and easy to hang) and are barely visible from outside while being beside a window they dry quickly and there is ventilation.

I actually like seeing washing hanging out in all the other back gardens around me, for the simple reason that it signals "warm dry weather".

I am one of those that hangs washing out late at night and then take it in dry after work the next day. My mother-in-law is horrified. I only do it when there is no sign of rain on my weather app for that night & the next day.

Once in a while something will get bird poo on it, it just goes back in the wash.

Can't beat that dried-outside smell.

I cant leave washing out on the line in my estate. Clothing goes missing, happened to a few neighbours, and always late at night.

Theres a guy next door who hangs tea bags out to dry on the line, reuses them when they are dried.

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I had my knickers stolen off the line a few times over the years. I don't leave them out anymore. Sick, creepy fcuks sneaking around peoples gardens stealing underwear.:mad:

As young immature teenagers we used to jump the backs at night as teenagers swapping neighbors closes around the shopping lines.

There was this one guy who lived on his own we used to collect all the nicks, bra's and womans socks we could find a completely load his line.

Mad basta***....................

Mink wrote: »

Can't beat that dried-outside smell.

Are you sure that isn't just the smell of damp?

Any time I accidentally left clothes overnight on the line, they'd have an awful bang of damp off them.

o1s1n wrote: »

Are you sure that isn't just the smell of damp?

Any time I accidentally left clothes overnight on the line, they'd have an awful bang of damp off them.

My clothes have never smelled of damp when I left them out over night.. and I've never even considered bugs and things like that when drying outside, I think that's a bit OTT really.

I can only really do the washing after I come home from work, so I hang it out in the evening and then take it off the following evening when it's dry. I hate drying clothes inside so I hang it out whenever I can, it just smells so much nicer! I used to live in an apartment block where we weren't allowed to dry clothes on the balcony at all and the stuff always took ages to dry inside and often smelled of damp (we did have a washer/dryer but the drying function was pretty useless). How is that more 'hygienic' than drying things outside?!