What does your neighbours washing line tell you about them?

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Trollop

I have been laughing at Mrs Trollop today, having looked at the neighbours washing lines he has explained to me that our neighbours to the right are manky having cast an eye over their 'grey' whites, the old guy on the left still has his marbles because his pants are spotless and he obviously changes them everyday (given that there were exactly seven pairs counted and correct), and his (the old guys) neighbours obviously have a good sex life given the skimpy array of sexy knickers on display!

It was even more amusing as at the time he was pegging out assorted coloured jockstraps, yellow, red, white and blue....which obviously means we must play a lot of sport?! NOT!

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slimfernMember VIP

Am wandering what my neighbours think of me now!....I tumble dry all my smalls......does this mean they think I don't wear any??.....

10/18/093:26 AM

Former Member

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Am wandering what my neighbours think of me now!....I tumble dry all my smalls......does this mean they think I don't wear any??.....

Those aren't smalls, luv.

10/18/093:29 AM

slimfernMember VIP

....Dan J....I could pitch them in the garden & live in em!

..<<<<<Mine have more frills!

10/18/093:37 AM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

I do wonder why the lady that lives in the house behind ours thinks it takes 5 days for the skimpy bits of string she calls knickers to dry! I could even see cobwebs between the clothes on her line the other morning!

10/18/094:01 AM

ScottyMember 10 years

My neighbour does matching pegs..pink sheets pink pegs..blue knickers blue pegs. She comes out and straightens them if the wind twists them.

10/18/094:12 AM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

I do like to have matching colour pegs for each item... not matching with the item... just matching with the other peg pegging it out.

Odd colours I save for socks!

Oh .... I so need to get a life

10/18/094:16 AM

SarumMember

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itty

I do like to have matching colour pegs for each item... not matching with the item... just matching with the other peg pegging it out. Odd colours I save for socks! Oh .... I so need to get a life

I'm so glad it's not just me....my OH laughs at me because all the pegs have to match.

I don't like mixing the clothes up either...I have to have all the towels together, all the pants together, and so on...

10/18/094:30 AM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

I don't categorise the clothing types... but everything has to be smoothed out (though I justify that by saying that it reduces the ironing!)

10/18/094:32 AM

AboMember

I have never, ever in nearly 6 years seen any kind of bedding (sheets, pillow cases, duvet covers etc) hanging on any lines round where I live. One of my neigbours who has 4 kids & has never hung a single thing out on her line. Might explain why her kids never where the same thing more than once

10/18/094:33 AM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

Both neighbours either side of my have never hung anything out either Abo!

Hubby reckons they have one of those laundry rack thingys indoors!

10/18/094:35 AM

LowonIQMember

Adjoining us next door they never hang out washing they use a tumble drier all the time. The other side are like us and hang out stuff every time it's fine and use driers as little as possible.
We try to hide the cut up old clothes we use as 'dirty' cloths for cleaning shoes, dog's feet, spills on the carpets etc. We hang them as close to the house as pos to make them harder to spot. Don't think anyone notices

It's harder to hide the towels that the dog has chewed bits off. We are gradually replacing them. Wonder really what they think of us

10/18/094:36 AM

subatomic partygirlMember

That they do laundry?

Related topic, I have a colleague who lives in a very affluent area of Cheshire and her hubby (local lad made good) refuses to let her peg out washing as it's "common".

For years she did all her drying in a tumble dryer then she stamped her foot and said she preferred the smell of clothes dried outside. Result? He bought her a retractable line with strict instructions only to dry at night and retract the offenbding article by morning.

It's this kind of stuff that confirms why I don't live with anyone.I'd be in Strangeways (15 to life).

10/18/094:37 AM

SarumMember

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itty

I don't categorise the clothing types... but everything has to be smoothed out (though I justify that by saying that it reduces the ironing!)

I smooth things out too..and they all have to be hung the same way up (because it makes them easier to fold when you're taking them off the line)

Yes, I know I'm weird...

10/18/094:40 AM

AboMember

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Both neighbours either side of my have never hung anything out either Abo! Hubby reckons they have one of those laundry rack thingys indoors!

in winter I hang everything on radiators (big things folded to fit) & on the clothes horse because I don't own a dryer. They are really bad for the environment & they shorten the life span of your clothing. But the one with 4 kids, how cold she never have washing hanging out? YUCKY

10/18/094:42 AM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

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refuses to let her peg out washing as it's "common"

Bizarre! Is it 'common'?

I do have our own version of the retractable washing lines.... we have cleats nailed to the fence posts on opposite sides of the garden, so that it can be taken down and neatly wound away in between uses.

I hate whirley gigs with a passion!

10/18/094:45 AM

Former Member

I think one of my neighbour's sons has a bed wetting problem.

I have to say that I have become one of those using the tumble dryer because I just can't hang out the washing anymore. Plus it ALWAYS rains when I do, or even if I THINK about hanging out the washing, the storm clouds gather.

10/18/094:53 AM

LowonIQMember

My washing line has to be a very thick plastic cord type, cannot abide the thin smooth ones, the pegs slip on them. I hate cotton/rope ones as you can't wipe them down. My pegs have to be plastic with springs in

10/18/094:54 AM

subatomic partygirlMember

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Bizarre! Is it 'common'?

To me, it's far more 'common' to even consider such a thing.

I think washing blowing on a line on a windy, sunny day epitomises homeliness; bit like the smell of baking cakes / bread or a cat snoozing on a freshly made bed.

10/18/094:55 AM

LowonIQMember

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think washing blowing on a line on a windy, sunny day epitomises homeliness; bit like the smell of baking cakes / bread or a cat snoozing on a freshly made bed

Me too, I remember when I first moved into our new homes I always felt like I'd properly moved in when I could see my washing blowing in the garden, a lovely warm cosy feeling

10/18/095:06 AM

TrollopMember

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You could see cobwebs on her knickers? Put down your binoculars Ditty and step away from the window

I know what you mean, our grey whites neighbours leave their washing out for days on end in all weather before it disappears inside...it generates days of 'pfffts' from Mrs Trollop!

Spider filled knickers *sudders*

10/18/095:12 AM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

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You could see cobwebs on her knickers? Put down your binoculars Ditty and step away from the window

I can see the cobwebs on her line & knickers.... on a morning.. when I am standing at the back door waiting for the dog to have a wee..... her washing is visible above my back fence.... and the sunlight catches the dew on the cobwebs!

Oh god.... I am sounding more and more like Les Dawson every day!

Maybe I should just stop fighting it, and order the flowery tent dress and be done!

10/18/095:19 AM

AboMember

when I lived in Oz, during summer by the time you had finished hanging out a load (9kg load) of washing you could begin getting the same load in before it went as stiff as a board.

& it was one of these below but attached to a fence

10/18/095:45 AM

LowonIQMember

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when I lived in Oz, during summer by the time you had finished hanging out a load (9kg load) of washing you could begin getting the same load in before it went as stiff as a board.

Not quite that quick here, I often have to take mine in, fold it neatly ready to put back out the next day

10/18/095:49 AM

Karma_Member

I tumble dry all my stuff at the mo cos my airer broke but when I used to use it I would only hang out the best clothes

. I'd also disguise all the smalls behind towels and sheets where they wouldn't be so obvious. My son also used to go nuts when I hung his boxer shorts out cos he fancied the girl 2 houses away and insisted his calvin kleins were nearest her window. He was only 9

10/18/095:56 AM

figtreeMember

Gosh is the boredom stting in or what?

10/18/096:08 AM

AboMember

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Not quite that quick here, I often have to take mine in, fold it neatly ready to put back out the next day

that sounds like me now. If it even looks like its gonna rain I bring the washing in folded. If I don't get to it quick enough & it gets rained on (even a little bit) I have to re-rinse it with fabric softener. My best mate says she likes comign round to my house cause it always smells of clean washing

10/18/096:31 AM

DarthhoobMember

only washing my neighbour really sees is my sons duvet and sheets etc all my bloomers and apple catchers go in the dryer lol

i think she washes the whole neighbourhoods though!

10/18/096:32 AM

MargueritaMember

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pink sheets pink pegs..blue knickers

Lol

10/18/096:38 AM

Karma_Member

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My best mate says she likes comign round to my house cause it always smells of clean washing

This is going to sound dead sad but what fabric conditioner do you use?

10/18/096:39 AM

EllsMember

Neighbours on the left never have any washing out but neighbours on the right has a constant stream of washing. All the clothes and towels are in good nick but I don't think she hangs out smalls coz I've never noticed. Why would I? lol.

My mum drives me mad coz she hangs her big knickers out and she's a big lady! Huge drawers swaying in the wind and when you consider that my brothers fiends all use the back garden to come into see my bro then it's not even funny.

My neighbours must think we never wash anything coz there's never anything on our line! I've always tubmle dried everything, I don't like the feel of line dried clothes although i love the smell.

10/18/096:48 AM

DarthhoobMember

same here i dont like the feel of line dried clothes, no matter what i use to make them softer :/
the smell is nicer though!

10/18/096:55 AM

liverbirdMember 10 years

I still get a wierd thrill when I see a line of whites hanging on a sunny day

I like to hang mine with the biggest things at one end and getting smaller

10/18/097:05 AM

AboMember

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This is going to sound dead sad but what fabric conditioner do you use?

Comfort pure for whites & I'm liking the tropical burst (orange) for the rest at the moment. There's also one I really like, it just smells sooooo beautiful it the jojoba & white orchid flavour. For special clothes only though. For the darks, kids school clothes, OH clothes I use strong tropic burst

10/18/097:11 AM

TrollopMember

Why do women have washing smelling fetishes?

10/18/098:30 AM

Former Member

I love the smell of freshly dried clothes on the washing line.

Although I do remember I was being particularly lazy one day and couldn't be bothered pegging them to the whirly gig so I just hung them on the clothes horse and bunged it outside.

It was a rather windy day and my knickers blew over my neighbours fence

Fortunately they were out and I managed to jump over and retrieve them.

10/18/098:38 AM

LaceyMember

Haha Miss S!

I did that once too and thank god my washing only landed in a tree, I had to scoop down the washing which was just T-Shrirts etc with the washing line pole!!

My neighbours always hang loads of towels on their line and some proper funky PJ's (Leopard skin print both sexes type of affairs)!!

Not sure what that says about them really! They are probably early 50's and quite hippyfied! They seem lovely to speak to!!

10/18/098:49 AM

Former Member

Lacey - I wish mine had landed in a tree!

I always make sure my knickers are firmly pegged down now

I love looking at people's washing lines but then I am generally very nosey.

10/18/098:55 AM

Former Member

it tells me that the old couple to my right have terrible taste in decor, their floral duvet covers are shameful! The neighbours must think im a right lazy cow i hardly ever put washing out and when i do it stays out for a good few days before i can be arsed to bring it back in

lifes to short to peg

10/18/098:58 AM

LaceyMember

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I always make sure my knickers are firmly pegged down now I love looking at people's washing lines but then I am generally very nosey

haha!

me too! Knickers also go on the end of the line where people can't really see them!!!

I love having a good nose too!

10/18/099:02 AM

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