Hanging diapers out on clothes line

I was just wondering how others felt about hanging their cloth diapers outside on clothes line? I have been doing it all my life, the sun is much better then a dryer not only for stains and smell. Cloth diapers last much longer and I don't care who may see them. Everybody I know, knows I'm a bed wetter I prefer wearing diapers over a soaking wet bed.

I too hang my cloth diapers and plastic pants out on the clothes line. i just love the fresh smell of the diapers after they are washed. Also love to smell the plastic pants too. I have a high privacy fence so know one can see me or my diapers in the backyard. i just love to hang my wet diapers and plastic pants on the line while i am only wearing my t-shirt and diaper and plastic pants sucking my pacifier.

I too hang them on the clothes line and after they dry I throw them in the dryer for 5 mins with a spiky ball that softens the cloth never dryer sheets. Diapers are a little hard and stiff from the clothes line but the dryer makes them soft and fluffy.

Toddler annie, please give me some information on this "spiky ball" which you use in the dryer. I have the same problem with stiff, scratchy line dried diapers.

PS, If you have a sub who needs some gentle discipline use line dried towels after her bath or shower. Not harmful or painful but just stiff and irritating enough to get her attention. (Properly used they can be very stimulating.)

Stephen S, I had the same problem when I lived in my last place. Since that time I have installed a water softener and the problem is gone. When my diapers came in off the line before my softener I did the same thing by throwing them in the dryer for a short tumble. Believe it or not an old clean soft tennis / running shoe or small game ball will do the same as the spiky balls. Make sure it is a solid ball or it may burst from the heat of the dryer.

One other benefit of the sun light on your diapers is it kills bacteria that causes the dreaded diaper rash.

Hi Elf, I live in E. Central FL. Our water is so hard it shatters when it falls!!! Softeners do help but not enough. If you can afford it a Reverse Osmosis device will clean up the water but at a price. (By the way, we are away from the worst of the sink hole zone.)

I certainly appreciate your suggestion for using an old tennie in the dryer.

As to familiar items bursting from heat, have you ever seen the youtube of a "peep" being microwaved? It's almost worth the mess if it does explode. Just watch it and don't do it yourself unless you want to spend a half hour with your head in a microwave looking for all traces of sugar.

Look here dryer balls http://www.amazon.com/As-Seen-On-TV-Dryer/dp/B004W7GNB2 they are great you never want to use softener in your wash it messes with how well your diaper absorbs.

I wish I could hang them outside but right now its 10 degrees out, second day of spring.

Xtekvet, can you string up some clothes line (whether permanent or temporary) inside? Both of the homes I've lived in we have hung inside during the winter. Our first home had the temporary lines, with hooks in the walls where I strung up line when I needed it. Our current home has a large enough basement space that the lines hang down there permanently.

I'd hang mine out there but as of late I been using mainly disposables. I do remember as a kid seeing them on lines and wanting to sneak up from behind and grab some from neighbors lines that was back in the 60-70's LOL

I hang all my sheets, nappies and incontinence pants, kylies etc on the line. I make no secret of my bedwetting and incontinence. No one has ever comented on my washing but then it's not something you would bring up in conversation but obviously my neighbours must know I wet the bed.

My washed clothdiapers and rinsed plastic pants are always hanging on the line to dry. At full display.

I wish I could do this. I love seeing diapers and plastic pants hanging on the clothesline. That was one really cool thing about being a kid in a small town in the 1960s--disposable diapers hadn't yet become popular and most middle-class people didn't have driers. So on any given sunny day you could ride your bike around the neighborhood and know which kids in the neighborhood still used diapers.

I'd like to do this now but my wife wouldn't allow it. She's perfectly happy with me and my diapers but doesn't want the rest of the neighborhood to know--and honestly I don't blame her. Still, if it was just me, I don't care so I'd probably do it anyway. Wink wink.

My Mom used to hang my cloth diapers and plastic pants on the closeline every washing. I loved the fresh smell of drying outdoors. When I got married and we moved and we always had an HOA that doesn’t allow clotheslines so my night time cloth diapers are always put in the dryer. My plastic and rubber pants are washed and hung in the laundry room to dry which usually takes a few days. The cleaning people see them every week when they come and they change the sheets and my bed pad as well as wash them. Kinda embarrassing when I am there knowing they know I’m in diapers.

I've been gravitating towards hanging my diapers and plastic pants out on the line now that I'm 24/7. Family and friends are slowly becoming aware of my padded butt. So there won't be a shock to see my gear hanging on the line. I do wonder about the softness of a line dried diaper though. Being that a dryer tumbles the cloth, the diapers are really soft coming out of the dryer. Gotta agree with others here that nothing beats the smell of line dried clothing.

I live out in the country so there's no nosey neighbors to worry about. (Not that it matters) lol....

I like my diapers hanging on the clothesline.we have done this many times weather permitting.it is really no ones busisness what is on your clothesline.it saves on electric bills.makes diapers white and kills germs too.if some one ask I tell them the truth,i just don't care now who knows i'm incontinent.

When I do my washing of cloth nappies and bed pad etcetera I wash them on the most economical program with an extra rinse cycle and then dry them on an airer inside the house, stood next to a radiator in winter they dry just enough to be not perfectly dry.

Then they get put in the tumble drier for 20 minutes to fully dry and get that soft springy bounce back in them.

In summer the same applies only they dry very quickly so the tumble drying is done much sooner.

Cloth nappies are only used as a booster in my disposables at night time to prevent side sleeping leaks since the disposables have now got those awful "cotton feel" sides on the plastic backing.

I would love to hang my terry nappes and baby pants on the cloths line but public opinions on adult babies wont allow for this

Whenever I can I do - sometimes it's not possible because of houseguests or the weather.

If the sun is out and I've got wet laundry then I love having my nappies and plastic pants hanging on the clothesline - in full public view. It takes me back to my childhood 😃

My clothdiapers are drying at full display on the clothes line. I don't care that they can be seen. And as others said, sun is a great way of removing any leftover smell.

SDB- I think the fact that the cleaning people change your wet bed, see your diapers and KNOW that you are a bedwetter is part of the reason you "like" being a bedwetter. The humiliation is what you want to relive.

Now Ive come clean about my fetish for plastic baby pants ,Ive come very close to my wife even more so now . When Ive washed my Rubbers ,I used to put them in the bottom of the airing cupboard to dry out Stacked ,Now things have changed a lot ,I now wash them and place them in our spare bedroom on a clothes dryer , the sun beats down on the windows ,it drys my Rubbers out nicely ,So much better now . I keep banging on about things EG Rubbers to you guys ,but I honestly say to those of you whio have "probs" about coming clean to er-in-doors about our weird fetish , Its Great ! Go on admit to your loved one about that stash of Rubbers hidden away .It really does half help !

When I was a kid most of the moms hung diapers and rubber pants (plastic) outside on the clothes line to dry. Some of my friends have younger siblings so I didn’t know if the diapers were for for them. However I have a couple friends who were four, five or 6 years old with no younger siblings and their mother hung the diapers outside on the clothesline. My mom had a diaper service. So while the diapers were not on the clothesline, the truck drove up to the house twice a week. Since I was the Youngest in my household everyone knew they were delivering my diapers. My rubber pants were not hung on the line, but were always hanging on the faucets in the bathroom. Anyone who went into Into the bathroom would see my rubber pants.

When I was a kid I lived next door to a girl--same age as me--who often intentionally peed in her pants.

(I've probably told the story here in other posts of how I went over there one day to find her sitting outside on their porch, on a warm summer day, in a t-shirt and shorts, in the middle of a big puddle of pee. She looked at me as if nothing was out of the ordinary and said "I peed with my britches on. You should try it, it's fun!" I was probably about five and was so excited by this I was weak in the knees. I then went home, hid in my bedroom, sat on the floor and peed in my pants and loved it. I'd had a few other pants wetting experiences prior to this but this was one of the first times that I realized how much I loved this. I then went back over there to tell her about this but they weren't home. I then spotted her soaking wet shorts and panties laying there in the middle of that puddle of pee on the porch. I picked them up and smelled them and--as you know--I've been hooked on wetting, pee, and the smell of peed-in pants ever since!).

Nearly every time I went over there, there were diapers hanging on their clothesline. I didn't really think about it much at the time but they had to have been hers--she was the youngest kid in the family and the next older one was about 10-11. I never noticed her wearing them during the day so she must have been diapered every night. Her mother would let us come into the kitchen to get water or go down the hall to use the bathroom but we were never allowed to go into her bedroom. Years later it occurred to me, maybe this was so we wouldn't see that there was a big diaper pail in there full of her delicious wet smelly night diapers and make fun of her?

We moved away when I was in the fourth grade and even then, you still saw those diapers out on the line! I've often wondered whatever became of this girl and if now--as an adult--she still likes wetting and wearing diapers? I know that I certainly do!!

When I was a kid my mom never used the clothesline that I can remember. Us kids used it like a zipline LOL! I do remember it disappearing so Dad probably took it down. Mom used the dryer and used to sit on the couch and fold clothes. She'd always put the folded diapers and plastic pants on the back part of the couch. Many times they just stayed there. So it was pretty obvious if anyone came over. I did get the odd diaper change on the living room carpet, but I was always put in my diapers and plastic pants on my bed, lying on my changing pad.

There were a few times people came over and commented, "Who's still in diapers?" Sigh...

We didn’t get a dryer till I was in my late teens. My diapers, my Stay Dry training pants, plastic pants all hang out on the line. When we played in the yard the other kids would see and ask about it. Most knew they were for me any way.

There is a clothes line between my house and my neighbors I will sun/ dry/ bleach my diapers on it ,why not that's what it's there for ,sunlight is bad for PPs so only rarely do they see light of day .

Sunlight is neccesary to maintain your diapers .

I just saw that yesterday! I was driving over to a nearby lake with my dog and passed a house with four giant cloth diapers hanging on a clothesline outside. I need to set up a clothesline so I can hang mine outside!

StevenS I lived in Saint Pete for a couple of years. Most of my diaper times were cloth diapers and no plastic pants. Our housekeeper and my mom always teased me about my diaper tan lines. After washing diapers and drying them on the clothes line Mom would tumble them in the dryer to soften them up. Mom had a dryer ball that she put a small amount of fragrance in and made the diapers smell baby fresh and very soft.

Back when i first got injured i used cloth diapers and the old comco plastic pants and we would just wash them in the washer and hang them to dry in our back yard (in full view of the apartments behind our house) one mourning we went out to get the dry diapers and discovered about a dozen missing as well as several pairs of plastic pants along with the fact that our garage had been broken into and my tools stolen.

we called the police and when they showed up we reported the theft (yes even the diapers) but told the cops that if the diapers were needed that the people could keep them