The daily struggle of not having enough space to hang up all your clothes is one faced by many. And one woman has admitted she is 'sick' of her neighbour stealing her washing line as she tries to get her clothes dried.
The anonymous woman admits she is at her wit's end as she constantly finds some of her washing line being used by her neighbour. She revealed the guilty party already have two lines of their own to use, reports the Mirror.
And she admits due to her neighbour having four people in the house, that there is a backlog of washing that she is paying the price for with little space left for her.
She took to forum Mumsnet to say: "My next-door neighbours keep using my washing line. They have two of their own lines which are right next to my line but within their boundaries.
"My washing line starts attached to the wall at the boundary to our properties and crosses slightly over my garden where it is attached at the other end to a concrete post on my property a metre or so inside my boundary.
"Being a family of four with a lot of washing, they often hang any extra washing that they can't fit on their line on mine."
The anonymous woman admits she would prefer to use an airer than her washing line anyway, but that the sight of other people's clothes on her line irks her.
She added: "I live alone and don't tend to use the line much except for when I wash towels or sheets. My clothes I usually just stick on a clothes horse and put them outside the door.
"I'm sick of looking outside and seeing their washing hanging across my garden but equally, [am I being unreasonable] if I rarely use the line myself and they need that extra bit of space for theirs?
"I don't think it helps that they didn't ask. It probably also doesn't help that I never get a moment's peace from their kids constantly running, screaming and jumping so they already annoy me and this is just another thing to add to the list!"
Users took the woman's side claiming the fact the neighbours haven't asked shows a lack of respect, despite the woman saying she doesn't want to do the potentially simple solution of taking the line down.
Someone wrote: "This would annoy me, too. You obviously don't want to see their clothes in your garden, and they haven't even bothered to ask. I'd see about getting one that I could take indoors when not in use. If they need more room, they can stick up another line in their own space. It's not that difficult."
Another user added: "I wouldn't mind this occasionally (sunny day and a backlog of washing) if I was asked first. But I really would mind looking out my windows and seeing someone else's laundry flapping around my garden. Tell them not to do it and if they persist, take it down and hand it back every time."
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