How do you hang your washing out?

[DaanSaaf]

My ndn messaged me earlier to say she had seen me peg my washing out, and she'd never seen it done like that before! Now, ignoring the fact that she's weird for watching/messaging me, is my method not normal?

So I will go along the line with the peg basket, and peg them on a foot or so apart. I'll then grab a load of washing, and chuck an item in each gap between the pegs. Finally, I'll peg them all properly. I feel this is the quickest way, and more importantly, means you only have to bend once or twice, rather than every item!

Am I the weird one?

My dh and I have different ways of hanging the washing. He hangs t shirts from their shoulders which I find horrific because they get all misshapen. He also doesn't shake them out all nice and flat but I bite my tongue because he will say I'm a control freak. (I turn tops upside down and hang from their bottom edge)

All the undies go on an Ikea socktopus. I need to make a new peg bag but in the meantime I have a tuppaware which I put on the floor next to the laundry basket. Bend down for each item except undies which I will grab handful. My pegs are all the same colour. I don't leave them on the line because they get rusty and mark the washing....although dh often does.

Things go on my rotary line based on width so wide towels go out the outermost lines but dd's small t- shirts go in the middle. I excitedly hung out a cream t shirt which had a red stain on the outside this week to see if the sun would bleach it out and I'm pleased to report it did.

Sometimes if I've got a really big load of washing or the first hasn't dried yet, I will double up any thinner fabrics so each item overlaps with the next and I used half the pegs.

Gosh, some people are so productive! She probably got lots of cameras and watches them instead of TV.
I asked my DH what he would do after getting such a txt. He was torn between pegging washing naked next time or getting lots of white underwear and putting a letter on each to form “F* off “.

Pants and socks go on a socktopus.

I peg each item as I lift it out. I do have the peg bag on my wrist though for efficiency. I have wooden pegs which are far superior to plastic as they don’t snap and they’re all the same colour.

What is the rationale behind putting the pegs a foot apart? Are you putting the pegs on the line, then hangng and then repegging?

Surely you could skip the first step and just throw the clothes over the line and peg? Just hold the pegs basket/bag in your hand

Well I’ve read 2 pages now, but afaik my answer would be ‘non of the above’.
Once I’ve pulled my retractable lines out, I put over half of my clothes on hangers and secure the top of each hanger to the line with a giant Minky peg.
If the rain comes, they stay on the hanger and are hung up in the drying cupboard.
less/no ironing and quicker.

I was taught by my narcissistic mother that you should never use a line, just a rotary and never to leave pegs on it because it’s “common” 🙄 Tops from the bottom, bottoms from the top. I do judge my neighbours washing on their lines because they fold an edge of the clothes over the line to peg on and my brain shouts “inefficient, that bit won’t dry!” and they also leave theirs out overnight to be darked on and… spider willlies. Maybe that dries the edge?

I’ve never seen anyone do it your way but I don’t think I’d text a neighbour to tell them that.

Although I was thinking earlier today that how washing is done might be quite, like, hyper-local… I was in an area of my city about 20 mins away and noticed all the back courts had the empty washing lines up. And where I am you take your line down when not using it (and someone else puts theirs up). And I found it weird to see them all out, even while thinking rationally how much more sensible it is 🤣

Pegs go on first (or remain on) then the washing is unceremoniously chucked on before being hung properly. It means no faffing or bending, the washing basket on my hip held with one hand whilst the other hand chucks.

I have COPD and if I'm not well, bending over can leave me breathless,

I put my washed clothes on my shoulder and peg them out from there 😅

I keep my pegs on the line but if by some mishap DS the pegs end up on the floor, ill just place heavier clothes slightly overlapping so the heavier clothes outweigh the lighter clothes

I have no issues with bending at the moment, or generally time when hanging out the laundry. I enjoy it (sad, I know).

I just hang one item up at a time bending down and grabbing an item plus up to 10 pegs depending on the item. We are on a hill and the line is exposed and so a sheet/throw/duvet cover can take up to 10 pegs to stay on the line if we have a bit of wind.

I don’t use pegs! Just put the washing on the line. Occasionally an item blows off onto the ground but not the end of the world (fake grass)

I hang shirts and t-shirts on coat hangers then hang them on the line as it takes up less space. Once dry they go straight into the wardrobe.

I once lived in a place where the washing lines were strung up between buildings like in Lady and the Tramp. You used a circle of rope with a pulley on either end but… beware of the knot!
Another had parallel washing lines outside the balcony with a railing that dug into my post-partum belly. I soon learned to peg the furthest line first and still do.
Finally (and I’ve been made fun of on MN for this before) if I’m using an airer I always hang towards me, pulling up from behind. That way you’re using gravity to stretch things out and not stuffing things down from the front. Try it the next time you hang a towel on a rail in the bathroom.

I put the heavier/larger things like trousers and shirts and put them over my shoulder. Then I peg them out as I walk along. No bending at all. Then peg whatever light things are left at the end. Sometimes using the space between and the pegs already up there.

I do exactly the same - each quadrant has a colour and I peg tops at the bottom and bottoms at the top. Each quadrant also houses one persons clothes, or towels or bedding. No mixing towels with bedding or different clothes. Each quadrant also has its own socktopus for pants and socks etc. It means I can easily sort the clothes into individual piles for each person to put away.

I hung out the washing at my son and Dil’s house yesterday. They leave the pegs on the line. I had to avoid using several of them as the metal parts had rusty spots on them. Also, there were spiders webs delicately laced along the pegs that needed a wipe with a damp cloth .

Did I offer advice based on my life long experience of hanging out the washing? Absolutely not! 😆

My mother always used to wipe the lines before she hung anything out and hung everything inside out "In case a bird shat on it". I don't do either of those things.

I put my stuff in a basket. I don't get the hanging washing over your shoulder stuff - don't you end up with a wet shoulder? Also people who leave their pegs on the line all the time. Seems like a faff to take them off the line to then put them back on with an item of washing. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

All my underwear gets dried inside. We have communal drying greens down by the seaside and I don't want all the neighbours and walkers seeing my knickers and bras!

I put mine over an airer and carry it out to stand on the patio. Don’t have a line.

I am very much a matching pegs person to the point of distraction so I changed them all to wooden ones. Problem solved!

Rotary line. Basket on a chair. Underwear/socks on the inside and the heaviest stuff on the outside. When I bring the washing in I take it off the line in order of where it lives…so is grouped for each wardrobe and each drawer so I don’t have to go back and forth from one wardrobe to the other as I’m putting it away. Never leave pegs on the line unless I’m putting another load of washing out. Collapse line and put cover back on

If I've not pegged anything out for a few weeks I wipe the line with a damp cloth, but not otherwise.

I have a linen cross-body peg bag made from the sleeve of an old dress. The laundry basket goes on a chair.

I peg them out in any order, but I take them off the line in category order (all DP's t shirts, all my tops, etc) so they can more quickly be put away in the drawers.

I don't leave the pegs on the line because the plastic ones get brittle and the wood ones can get mildew-y from the rain and leave marks on the clothes. Keeping them inside means they last longer.

I do this if I'm drying clothes inside, makes putting them away so much easier

I use metal ones and they survive all the elements, I've had mine easily 2+ years now

I don’t .. I can’t dry clothes outside due to severe hayfever sufferers 😞 I hang them on an airer indoors.

If it's a big load, heavy stuff,bath sheets,I put both pegs and laundry basket on a garden table right next to the rotary
Pegs go away each time,otherwise the rust,or weaken in sunlight,or the birds poo on them.