Well annoyed

[zanussi_lover]

I live in a flat and i put some whites on the line, left them out over night and the next morning they were gone :O, i'm well annoyed as there were some expensive white towels out there which cost £30 each, and my white t-shirts, boxers and socks have gone.
Can i ask who want some used boxers, socks, t-shirts and towels. its bang out of order to put stuff out on the line and expect it to disappear.

I guess i'll be tumble drying stuff, i feel bad now, as i love line dried fresh clothes off the line. and its good for the environment drying stuff on the line as opposed to tumble drying

I already wash everything at 30 apart from teatowels, towels and socks which get a wash at 60-90 degrees.

Kyle x

 

[nickuk]

Kyle, replace your washing line with some sort of conductive cable, then when the you're done hanging the washing out, connect said cable to 240volts. It won't harm the washing, or any birds who perch, but it'll certainly help you catch your thief.

I'm kidding, of course, I'm sorry to hear of this theft. Maybe just hang the stuff up during the day when you can keep an eye on it.

Regards,

Nick

 

[thor]

Well, Kyle, take it this way, what happend speaks very clearly about your excellent washing skills, which leaves no skidmarks on underwear!

 

[maytagbear]

I can sympathise, Kyle......

I live in a "less than wonderful" neighbourhood here, and if I were to even have a washing line, my clothes would be gone the moment I turned my back.

No one (to my knowledge) in the nearly six years I have been here has been a victim of life-threatening violence, but theft.....

I'd like to hang at least some of my clothes outside, but I just don't dare. Even if my landlord let me have a line, I wouldn't.

I am grateful to have my nice Maytag Dependable Care dryer.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[pturo]

Well, we'll just have to design locking clothespins with a remote release,then,and have Congress approve them. What a world! I am old enough to remember that I never had a key to our house as a child and the car keys were always easy to find in the ignition. Seat belts were a new thing, and if you had a dryer, you were either rich, or your mother worked. Stealing laundy? Never. We did thow mud at the neigborhood bithes' sheets, just like that chapter in Needful Things, by Steven King. Laundry was always sacrosanct, so theft of it is even more shocking to me.

 

[whirlcool]

This reminds me of the time I was in college I went to the coin op laundry and put my clothes in the washer. I went across the street to a conveninece store for a coke. When I came back, in the washer that had my towels there was only water swishing around. My towels were gone! Someone had stolen my towels between the wash and rinse cycle!
Some people!

 

[maytagbear]

When I have had to use coin-op

laundries, I go supplied...not only with my clothes and chemicals, but reading material, a diet Coke or three, and maybe a snack.

When I was in college, I would make an evening of it, take my homework down to the laundry room. (If I had to, I would lock the door, and use the floor drain. The washers ran into the line...)

Loss is one thing, "pranks" is something else. Tang in a load of whites? Yellow paste food colour in a mostly blue load? These things happend to other people, but not to me.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[Cybrvanr]

That's pretty crazy! I couldn't imagine someone doing that. Then again, the way people have gotten so trusting in my neighborhood, it could happen. People leave their houses unlocked and keys in their cars, windows open, etc. Since there has not been any real serious issues in several years, nobody gives it much regard. People hang out laundry all the time around here, and if something is missing off the line, chances are you can find it in the neighbor's yard...not because they stole it, but because the wind blew it off!!! Chance are though, they will end up knocking on your door with your laundry!

 

[laundryshark]

Wouldn't You Like to Hang that Thief!? *chuckles and sni

Even if clothes lines were provided around here, would not dare hang stuff outdoors to dry or else the clothes and linens would escape or be stolen! *grins* At least I can safely hang laundry in my bathroom and find it there when it's all dry.--Laundry Shark

 

[wannapinkset]

Sad.
I know its no conselation but I can relate.

I didnt always have a place for my washer and dryer so my frigidaires were stored for quite a few years. In between times, I had to go to the laundry mat. You cant leave your clothes unattended in a washer or dryer cause if you did, you no longer had clothes, sheets, whatever you were washing and drying. This laundry mat was in a good area too, with million dollar homes in subdivisions. Very upscale. Makes no sense.

I hate the laundry mat. I am ever grateful for my delapidated old fixer upper house and a place for my Frigidaires once again.

 

[lederstiefel1]

Hello Kyle

It's sad to hear what had happened, but if I'd let my washing outside over night, no-body would wonder here if some or even all articles were gone...

Unfortunately we do not have any possibility to hang out our washing on a line, as the renting-company of the urbanisation we live in, took away the old ones years ago and didn't replace them. Some houses still have the stakes and some people use them still but only during day-time!

Furthermore we have a huge attic in each house to dry the washing, hidden from rain, strong sunlight, birds and strangers... the best you can have! During summer its sometimes as hot as a tumbler and the temperature up there can reach 50°C or more, so washing is dry in 1-2 hours.
Windows in both gables as well as in the roof itself insure a steady drought as well, so washing is aired automatically, too!

Only in winter, excusively during times when it is cold and rainy and foggy, sometimes washing needs a further drying and we put them for 20 minutes into our cabinet-dryer in the basement or leave them for an hour arround in the flat before putting them away into the wardrobes.
Items that need to be ironed are perfect at this stage and can be done straight away.
When temperature drops further drying is forced again and so even in winter the washing is dry within a day or two!

Ralf

 

[kirk280980]

This happened to one of my friends as well, and he lost an entire line full of clothing worth several hundred pounds in broad daylight. Hard to tell whether people steal clothes to wear themselves, sell on for cash or just for the thrill of thieving, not that it really matters to the victim.

When this was reported to the police - for the sake of recording the crime more than anything, because it's not likely the person responsible would ever be found - the policewoman recommended that he nailed carpet gripper to the top of his fence. Normally this is a no-no, but she pointed out that he was within his rights to do so because the fence is taller than head height, and therefore the ONLY reason for anyone's hands to be there is if they're trying to climb over it. If a thief picks up tetanus from the rusty spikes, too bad... her words!

 

[lederstiefel1]

carpet gripper

Well, I do not know exactly what carpet grippers are but can imagine what purpose they are for.
Here in Germany we use to use double-sided adhesive-tape for wall-to-wall carpeting.
What some people did and still do here in Germany is: they put a layer of concrete on top of the garden walls and set culets from old glass-bottles in it, like spikes! These can be seen from everywhere - even birds (pigeons) do avoid these places - and I cannot imagine that anybody will try to climb onto that wall!
I find this better than carpet grippers as sometimes children try to risk a spot over a fence or wall for some reason of curiosity, not thinking that there might be something like these metal teeth lurking for their grabbing hands...
Also the metal grippers will rust after a short time and the rain will wash down the rust all over the wall or fence, leaving brown stripes that cannot be removed anymore.
Last but not least: if you use different colours with the glas it looks like rows of gems glittering in the sun-light...

Ralf

 

[hoover3060]

Hi Kyle

Thats dreadful that someone would do that. I have never thought twice about leaving laundry out on the line overnight even when our old house was in a less desirable area.I Never think it wont be there in the morning. Guess im to trusting of people. I forget there are people who will do such things as this.

Mark

 

[peterh770]

The pollen count in ATL today is 5900+ ("extremely high" is 120, so we are off the charts). If you hang out your wash, regardless of the color, it will quickly turn chartreuse!!!