To leave my pegs on the washing line?

[QueenOfTheMadhouse]

Am i being unreasonable to do this? I have noticed over recent weeks a distinct lack of pegs on my neighbours washing lines.

Does everybody else take their pegs down between uses? It has never crossed my minds to do this but I am thinking I may be in the minority going by recent evidence. Am I a slattern? Are my neighbours talking amongst themselves about my slovenly ways?

I leave mine on the line. Maybe we need one of those peg-bags like my aunty used to have, hung on the line?

I meant mind obviously, I only have the one

Peg bags? There is such a thing!?

Working class wash house slattern

Well some of mine are on my line, some are in an old bag hanging from the line and some are in the grass, its hunt the peg here

If they are wooden then you MUST take them in.

If they are plastic not bringing them in does not indicate slatternism per se, but it is a worrying symptom.

Brabantia peg bag is ace. Just clip it to yourself and is easier putting pegs in and out than it is keeping them on line.

slattern! like me lol

And when I say old bag its not a posh peg bag either!

I leave mine on the line, or all over the lawn when they snap and fall off

Mine get left on the line, but I do keep them in colour order

Half-slattern.

I leave mine on...but beware of the peg spiders....

Mine are wooden and live in the washing line. If I'm feeling particularly domestic I may put them on the window sill outside .

I leave them on but they have to be able to slide freely. And must be the same colour or the world will end.

Ooh no bring them in, they'll get rusty and you'll only have to move them anyway as I'm sure they aren't at the correct width for each item !

Well mine are plastic. They do snap occasionally and i do pick them up and place them in the bin

BroomForMyChin You have reason to be proud :)

Don't sweat the small stuff

I take mine in every time you lazy wench

I leave mine, there is the odd peg spider though, along with washing pole ants , I couldn't leave a peg bag out though, imagine the spiders you would get in there.

I have a peg bag. I tend to bring them in, but a look out of the window shows a full line of pegs. Husband has been doing the washing. He must be a slattern.

Mine stay on the line as my peg bag got blown off during the great storms of 2011 and ended up underneath a big spidery bush and I haven't been arsed putting it back on the line

Yes, but they get all brittle if they are plastic and left out in the sun and rotten if they are wooden and left out in the rain, so if you don't want to buy pegs more often than you need, then you should take them in......that said, my kids DELIGHT in breaking mine (I have to hide the bag)

I take my pegs in, unless I am about to put another load out.

I made my peg bag from an old curtain (yes I am aware how that makes me sound 75 )

I have a peg bag. The DC made it and it's lovely

it's also indoors somwhere, totally empty and the pegs are on the line

Mil says its common, but she left mine out when she (very helpfully) brought my washing in a couple of weeks ago.
I bring mine in.

When I lived in a downstairs flat with a washing line, I always took the pegs in and I am the biggest slovenly going.

If they are left outside in all weathers they get very mucky and then when you clip the clothes to the line: hey presto your clean laundry gets dirt smeared onto it.

I used to tell DH off for leaving them out.
Then I realised that it did no harm and that I was being an arse.

HTH :)