underpants!

[low_delta]

How do you feel about the aesthetics of hanging laundry out to dry? Do you think it looks trashy? Are you embarrassed that people see your underwear? Do you just feel it's a fact of life?

Comments

[https://users.livejournal.com/-foryoublue/]

my step mother hangs out her clothes and linens out on the clothesline to dry...and i have to admit i would rather she didn't. then again my step mother can almost do not right in my eyes... but even if was someone else i think that i would still dissaprove. it's not terribly tacky, but i think it is semi-trashy.

[melonaise.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's just necessary. Not everyone has a dryer. It's not that they want everyone to see their faded sheets or that they want stiff t-shirts, they just don't really have a choice.

But, if I needed to hang my laundry to dry, I'd probably hang the underwear in my bathroom.

[lonita.livejournal.com]

I like air-dried laundry, but I never put my undies out there.

[ana.livejournal.com]

air drying clothes on a line outside RULES!
it saves energy and saves the planet. if i had a lawn i would do it!
anyone who can't deal with seeing underwear on a clothesline in this day in age is a selfish prude who needs to get the heck over it. it's only UNDERWEAR for crying out loud. when we start caring more about seeing underwear than saving a planet, that's when we need to wake up. and we need to wake up.
this is worse than the victorian era sometimes. god. it's so sad.

[tully-monster.livejournal.com]

Nothing trashy about hanging out clothes to dry, and line-dried clothes warm from the sun are a very nice thing. I'd say underwear is OK as long as it's perfectly white and in good condition--no holes. And I'd put it in the back yard, of course.

[https://users.livejournal.com/-foryoublue/]

i hang mine in my room! it adds a nice, whimsical touch, i think.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

I don't have a dryer, but the neighborhood association doesn't allow laundry to be hung outside unless you are behind a privacy fence.. which I also cannot afford, so I hang mine in the doorways from clip hanger, and hang the sheets and blankets over the doors.

It is a fact of life to me. Of course.. I don't have to contend with things like underwear thieves, or bird poop by hanging them inside.. but I also don't get that wind softened touch to the towels or the smell of natural bleaching by the sun either. Pluses and Minuses like everything else.

[i.livejournal.com]

i do it and so do my neighbors

[banana.livejournal.com]

I agree with Ana. All out clothes hang to dry. Some are out in the back garden, some in the covered area at the side of the house, and some on the clothes horse upstairs. Feel free to look at my underwear hanging up any time your here.

[banana.livejournal.com]

I've hung laundry outside nearly all my life and I don't remember ever having trouble with birds. Now you've mentioned it, I wonder why.

You had me at underpants!

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I think it's a good thing...you're not wasting resources, you're in touch with nature just a tiny bit more...outside clothes smell so nice like that. Besides, we're all so cut off from our neighbors these days, it's kind of a neat way to see what they're like or show them what you're like...Okay, I'm babbling, but I honestly just don't think it's overly ghetto, just sense...

It might be nice to have some good new underpants to put on the line, though:)

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Oh, we will...we will!!!

*leers*

[banana.livejournal.com]

Mine are the ones marked "age 5-6" with the Thunderbirds pictures on the front.

[sweetinsanity.livejournal.com]

Meh, I don't care. I have to do my laundry at a laundromat, anyway, so people can see my nice undies, undies with holes in them, etc. Whatever.

[joei.livejournal.com]

I made the hubby buy clothes line and pins so I could hang some things in the back yard on the line. He hasn't put it up yet though. And I need to work out the logistics so I have the line to hang clothes out, yet he won't be "clotheslined" then he tries to cut the lawn. I love towels that have been dried in the sun and breeze outsite.

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

there is nothing wrong with freeze-dried undies......in neighborhoods where it's against the rules to hang out the laundry, people should really question those rules......

now, having said that.......where i live, it's irresponsible to leave an empty clothesline out......moose antlers are attracted to clotheslines (and hammocks) much like tornados are to trailer parks......(results are similar)

[laciann.livejournal.com]

Clothes lines are banned in our neighborhood, which I think is terribly snooty and pretentious ... but I don't make the rules.

I get around it by having a collapsable clothes rack, which I set out on my back deck. You don't ever hear the sheets flapping in the wind, but it's better than nothing.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

It may be .. logistics. Most clothes lines are set up in the open areas, so the sun can help dry the clothes. I lived in military quarters once that had the clothes line set up in the tree line.. due to lack of space, and I had bird poop all over everything.. all the time. That was also where the maintenance man was "caught" with drawers full of various women's underthings.. all traceable to the inhabitants of those set of quarters..

[lister-of-smeg.livejournal.com]

I hang my laundry out on the lines when weather permits here, and yes, I hang my undies out there too! I have to admit that I hang them closer to the door so that they are screened by my shirts or whatever else, and thus are not overtly advertized.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I agree.

[sunshine-two.livejournal.com]

doesn't phase me either way. I don't really pay attention to it when I see it.