Need Answer Fast
Actually, I really needed the answer about half an hour ago but what’s done is done.
Poll to come in a moment Ooo - my very first poll!
Here’s the set-up: I have a clothesline out back behind my house. It’s really three lines all parallel to one another held up at each end by large T-shaped poles. It’s relatively private with about 2/3 of the line hid by an enormous tree and about 1/3 of it open to the far end of my neighbor’s backyard. They aren’t likely to see the exposed part of the line but they have youngish kids that run around a lot back there. No one can see the line from the front or even sides of the house.
The distance from my line and the farthest the neighbors might wander is a good 50 feet or so at least.
The plan is to hand any unmentionables on the middle line with other items on the outer lines to act as a sort of shield to the naughtier bits.
What? Why is this even a thing? You need to wash your clothes, including your underwear, and hang them out to dry. Why do you care what people think about your underclothes being hung on the line?
That’s what I figured but my husband got all weirded out by it. I’m new to the whole home ownership thing. I hung my clothes out to dry for the first time in my life just a week ago.
Your husband is an fool, then. It’s your clothes line on your property. Everyone wears underwear. Whether or not kids play out the back has no bearing on whether you should be allowed to hang your clothes on the line, let alone whether you should have to go through all sorts of rigamarole to “hide” your underwear amongst the other clothes.
I used to have the same quandry, mostly because I’m a teacher, and we’re not supposed to HAVE naughty bits. I also lived on the curve of a major road, so people could see my drying laundry from three angles. My solution was to hang the undies in the middle, as you’re considering. I’ve since moved and miss having a clothesline.
However, your situation is different. Most of your line is hidden, and your husband is worried only about the part your neighbor’s kids would see. Um, do these people have television? If so, those kids have seen lacy bras, believe me. And what is your husband worried would happen if the kids saw them, angry neighbors? Bet the previous owners hung their undies. Or maybe that you’d turn them into a bunch of raving perverts who try to earn their peeping Tom merit badges by drooling at your windows? Nah. I say, hang 'em high!
You only mention your stuff. Is your husband concerned about his Underoos, or just yours?
It’s mainly my stuff but he’s a bit worried about his own, too.
I’m a teacher, too. Plus I live only about 10 minutes from where I work. So I think I have this modesty thing so ingrained at this point that honestly I’m a bit freaked out myself.
I know kids have seen this sort of stuff in one way or another but they haven’t seen my stuff, ya know?
It’s bits of cloth. Cloth isn’t anything to worry about. It’s what’s occasionally inside the cloth that’s relevant, and I don’t imagine you’re hanging that out on the line.
Well, if it is lace corsets and split-crotch panties, you might not want to hang them outside. I can see neighbors objecting to that. But for the most part, it’s just underwear.
Where I live everyone hangs out their laundry. This is a non-issue.
Although actually, I wouldn’t hang out my underwear and socks because I like them soft from the dryer. But otherwise, I wouldn’t care, and nobody else does, either.
I didn’t vote. No one here has a clothesline, and really, I think we’d be the most likely to ever do it. So my first thought was sure, go ahead. But then I thought about some of my neighbors, and I wouldn’t want to see their underwear. I guess if you’re sure it’s not visible. Sure, it’s just underwear, but it’s someone else’s underwear to everyone else.
I asked my wife if she’d use a clothesline if we had one, and she said sure. Then I asked if she’d put out our underwear, and she said no. Her mom had a clothesline and hung all their underwear, and she said she was embarrassed by it when she was a kid.
You could hang just outerwear for a while, and see what the reaction is. Also, at the least, don’t put out your husband’s underwear if it bothers him.
It’s now past 11:00 pm my time and all my stuff is still out on the line. I put it out there too late for it to dry before dark.
Adds an extra bit of excitement to it all.
I hadn’t thought of the theft possibility before, guizot. Now leaving it all out there overnight has me the tiniest bit nervous. I live in a really safe area so I’m sure it’ll be fine.
I’ll let y’all know tomorrow if any of my unmentionables were swiped.
I also lived on the curve of a major road, so people could see my drying laundry from three angles. My solution was to hang the undies in the middle, as you’re considering. I’ve since moved and miss having a clothesline.