Why don’t people dry thier clothes outside?

27 comments

1. Not everyone has the space/garden.

2. Every house except mine on my street ended up getting their underwear pinched. Weird

3. People do, go by houses on the train and you’ll see loads of washing lines.

4. I do when I have a clothesline and it’s dry, though tbh things dry in my utility room on clothes horses by the end of the day atm anyway.

5. I don’t use dryer because only clothes of me n my wife

   However if you have kids, that would just occupy too many space if hanging inside (apartment)

6. Was this a UK thread?

7. For most of the year, high chance of rain and very slow drying times due to no sun and high humidity

8. People do.

9. I do in the summer – well, I put the drying rack by an open window because I don’t have a garden.

   In the winter, they go straight in the tumby d because it’s not like I’m keeping the windows open when it’s freezing.

   It takes bloody ages to dry anything when it’s cold and clothes can go mildewy.

10. I do in the summer.

11. I wonder the same thing everytime that thread appears. I give it the benefit of the doubt that they live in a flat and most commenters are also assuming that but then I see some outright saying they have space outside they just cant because it’s winter? Eh? Doesn’t change anything.

12. Because I live in a first floor flat. It’s easier to chuck them on a clothes horse.

13. Tumble dryer in winter when it’s cold and wet, washing line during Warner months when it’s dry and sunny.

14. I do. The tumbler is for finishing off those items that need it, and for days when you can’t dry outside (even then I have a clothes horse)

15. They do.

    /thread

16. Air dried bed sheets. That feeling when you climb in bed of an evening. Heavenly.

17. People do? I only use the tumble dryer in winter or when it rains.

18. I don’t even have a tumble dryer. Most the year I just put the wash on an extra spin and drain and then hang it up to dry.

19. I hang our clothes on the line as much as possible, infact I often put a load on the line (wheey) before 9am

20. If people have any sense I imagine there will be a lot less tumble drying going on given the energy price rises.

    Dry on the line outside here, or on a clothes horse in front of the woodburner.

21. We have a washing line in the back garden that we use when the sun is out. I thought that was pretty common in the UK.

22. TBH, I don’t have a line right now, but, I’ve realized that doing my laundry, sticking it in my large backpack, walking 10 minutes to the local laundry place, and spending £4-6 to have all my stuff dried in an hour, is, in the grand scheme of things, less of a hassle. I go every two weeks. No mold issues in my flat, no clothing hanging everywhere, no worries about the damn pigeons doing strafing runs, stuff is nice and fluffy, and I meet some interesting people.

23. No one I know uses a tumble dryer except on the odd occasion. Even in the winter, a bit of Sun and wind will easily dry a load of washing

24. If you have severe hay fever, drying washing outside allows pollen onto clothes and bed linen.

    Also, people light barbeques in the late afternoon and sometimes for lunch… meaning your washing can end up smelling of burnt fat and smoke.

    On chilly days, if you’re unlucky the smoke from neighbours log burner stoves drifts across your garden…great for infusing into drying washing. Smell suggests softwood or pallets. Air pollution… seems nobody even the council cares .

25. You can’t often trust the weather in Scotland and I’m not sticking my clothes out the window to be shat all over by seagulls.

26. Mine are on the washing line right now. I hate drying inside.

27. If I can put clothes outside they will be put outside. I’ll do this up to the point that the temperature goes too low where they won’t really dry.

    When they can’t go outside most of the clothes go on a clothes horse near the radiator. The dryer will be used for some stuff like underwear and pyjamas but good or heaver clothes don’t go in the dryer.

    This isn’t based on the current energy issues. I’ve always done this.