Hang the washing out

I have never owned a tumble dryer so dry outside whenever I can although it's hard to know what the weather is going to do when I leave for work in the morning . Other than that I use a clothes airer.

I've just made life a little simpler by throwing out all my substandard clothes pegs. I used to spend ages rooting through to find the ones I preferred, and decided that since I never used the others they might as well go in the bin.

I have a washer /dryer but on a dry day I hang washing out I prefer to line dry washing and I like the money saving

The one thing which has always worried me is that I see a lot of washing-lines, both Rotary and plain ones, which are left out in all weathers, sometimes with the Pegs still attached, and these lines are never washed or cleaned, and the owners just put their lovely clean washing out on them every day, without a care in the world! I only once made that mistake, many years ago - every single item of my lovely washing was filthy, with severe back marks where the Pegs had held them. I have a cover for my Rotary line, and use it every single time it is not in use holding my washing. Don't people realise just how "dirty" even fresh air can be? And I live in a nice clean part of the country, (the English Lake District) - and not in an industrial suburb of a big town. Can't they see how dirty things become outside?

At my last house nothing dried in the garden as there was never any sun. Now, I have a garden that gets sunshine eight months of the year and I have a double line that I bought on line that whizzes back into a container on the wall when I unhook them, so only on show when the washing is out. I have also bought a really useful set of rails that hang inside the door of my airing cupboard on which my washing dries really quickly. I resent using my drier in the winter but have no choice.

Such a lovely smell getting washing in from a line !

Mine goes out on the line whenever weather permits, and on an aired in the bathroom when not.
Wouldn't give houseroom to a dryer

I could afford to run one Cosafina

I have a rotary line I use as much as possible, in the summer it is covered by a gazebo which we have up to give shade to the children, (I'm a childminder) so can even hang washing out if light showers. In the winter I have to hang on airers in the spare bedroom & on the banisters.

I always dry washing outside, and don't have a tumble dryer. I even delay washing if the weather is bad as I detest drying indoors. It is so much easier ironing clothes, etc, that have been dried outdoors, and it smells so much nicer.

I hang all my clothes on hangers and hang from all the holes where the line goes through the rotary line. Then pants socks towels & bedding on tge actual lines! Anazing how many it holds? Ps, they don't need ironing either!!

I live in an "upside-down" house which means carrying baskets of washing down the stairs and out into the garden. I recently bought a collapsible rotary dryer which goes out onto my upstairs balcony and into a cupboard when not in use.
I have found it really useful, particularly as the whole thing, washing and all can be picked up and carried indoors in a sudden shower. It is man enough to take a big load, including king-size bed linen.

When the weather is fine, it goes outside - no point bothering if the air is damp, the washing just stays wet and collects dirt. If not fine, I've got a heated airer which is good. I use the tumble drier only occasionally as the clothes are so much harder to iron if they've been tumble dried, I find, but it is good for fluffy towels if it's too wet/damp to put them outside.

If it's fine the washing always goes outside and then the rotary goes away afterwards since I would never clean all the lines regularly. In bad weather it has to go on an airer then finish off in the tumble dryer - which I'm not fond of as I can visualise the electricity meter going mad! Love the smell of washing dried outside and my DM always reckoned a frost was good for whites. Lovely childhood memories of sheets having to be folded while still frozen, they surely couldn't have been dry?

From the email I thought this thread was going to be about dusting!

But it's about the chore of hanging clothes out and bringing them in. How many of us keep our socks in pairs from the washing through drying and airing ready to stow and wear?

The wind often whistles through the funnel-like gap between our house and next door's thereby spinning our rotary clothesline, even when it is full of wet clothes.

...and the spinning seems to deter our garden birds from perching on it.

A tumble-dryer would be an unnecessary expense and a waste of energy.

Love hanging washing outside and can relate to all the issues mentioned - bees and spiders, bird feeder and plants getting in the way of washing hanging out in the summer months, etc. I have a small garden in which I have a traditional horizontal line which I use for any overflow from a large load. Best of all though is my 'flat roof' which I can easily access from my landing window. I have two small horizontal washing lines but also a wall mounted rotary line to which, although I swore I'd never use one, I'm now a convert. It has its own waterproof cover which clips on with heavy duty poppers or press studs. This flat roof is rather grandly referred to as the 'Roof Terrace' in polite company and on Facebook. Makes us sound dead posh

P.S. I agree with the sentiments of cheneslieges132 in that I don't understand why some people leave their pegs out on the line to get filthy and fail to wipe the line if it's been open to the elements. All that effort to clean the washing only to let it get mucky marks from dirty pegs and lines! Another thing that amazes me are those who leave the washing out overnight. (I once had a neighbour who did this regularly, so hardly a one off forgetfulness, I think). A waste of effort doing the washing, surely!!

i could afford to run one????

Should have said " I couldn't afford to run one"

Stupid phone , stupid fingers

I love hanging out my washing & have it smell so lovely & fresh. In the winter I have a marvellous heated airer that can be programmed to make use of cheaper nighttime fuel. My tumble dryer is in garage for emergencies only.
The only neighbours I can see hang their washing out too.

I like to hang mine out on the line whenever I can. Years ago in small London bedsits with Terry toweling nappies there was nowhere to hang them or a tumble drier.....so we lived festooned with drying Washing. Funny after all these years how it still feels a luxury to have a washing line.! I use a tumble drier too...for those quick emergency dries or when it's raining.

I agree with Day6, I love the sight of a colorful line of washing billowing out in the wind on a 'good drying day'.

I'm lucky to be able to have washing lines and just love to see the washing blowing on them. No tumbledrier so there is also a small line in the greenhouse and clothesdryers with dehumidifier indoors in the warm bathroom.

Sorry, got to do another post having read above. I don't take my pegs in or wipe my lines because they never get dirty - perhaps no pollution here?! And I often leave it overnight because the early morning sun does a very good job. Also people who check on other people's washing habits really ought to get a life!

I love drying my washing outside when the weather is suitable and I just love the smell, particularly of bed linen. The only exceptions are towels which go in the drier come rain or shine for that lovely fluffy texture - imo nothing worse than a rough,board-like towel line-dried in the summer sun

Out of curiosity I went out and wiped the rotary line , bit of kitchen roll showed no dirt , clothes have never shown dirty peg mark either , I have been told to shake the washing to get rid of pollen , but since I got old and stiff I just grab and dump it in the basket