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To leave my pegs on the washing line?

191 replies

QueenOfTheMadhouse · 30/05/2012 19:09

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?

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usualsuspect · 30/05/2012 19:50

I think I chucked it away in the end

nemno · 30/05/2012 19:50

But don't you all walk along the line with a cloth around it before hanging lovely clean white things on it? The cloth certainly removes dirt (evidence is on cloth) and without doing it the clothes would mark. Leaving the pegs up would make this 5 second task a chore. AND the pegs get rusty and dirty if left out.

This is worrying....

takingiteasy · 30/05/2012 19:51

I made myself a peg bag out of a tea towel that I can tie round my waste. I am such a domestic goddess.

Let's just ignore the fact the washing on the line just now has been there since yesterday shall we?

But, when I do bring it in, the pegs come off the line and the line retracts!

usualsuspect · 30/05/2012 19:51

I've never wiped the washing line in my life

ChippingInNeedsCoffee · 30/05/2012 19:53

Yes - I always take them down and put them in my lovely matching peg basket :) Never, ever, ever a fabric peg bag, pretty little things they are - but a fucker to get the pegs in and out and spiders love them!! I don't like putting my hand in to get out a peg and coming out with a big black spider Shock

SleepyFergus · 30/05/2012 19:54

I have to wipe my rotary down each time as always lots of spiders webs and dirt. 'Tis a pain in the ass, but another reason I couldn't leave pegs out...

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 30/05/2012 19:54

I dont have an opinion on pegs.
But this seems like a good thread to tell you I have a PINK rotary dryer.

Its beautiful

(I also have a pink ordinary airer thingy but that isnt quite as exciting)

catgirl1976 · 30/05/2012 19:55

wipe the washing line?

Don't take this the wrong way, but I am guessing maybe you don't work full time

(or you have some special machine that creates more time for stuff)

SleepyFergus · 30/05/2012 19:57

Yep, I do work FT but if I didn't wipe it down, then clothes would end up with dirty marks on it (or squashed spiders, spider web stuff etc) and I don't have time to be re-washing my washing!

5madthings · 30/05/2012 19:59

i leave the pegs on the line, they eventually fall off/break etc and then i have to pick them up from the floor, or rather the children do when i make them tidy the garden.

i have been known to occasionally wipe down the washing line, most of the time i use the fold out dryer and i just hang stuff on that and then it if rains i can whizz and just bring it into the house with all the washing still on, its a pita if it starts to rain and your washing is all pegged out, but i just bring in the whole dryer and its fine!

i think its time to buy new pegs tho as i have just looked out the patio doors and counted, there are only 6 pegs on my washing line, 1 red, 2 blue, 2 green and 1 yellow! oh i just spotted another yellow one on the floor but i cant tell from where i am sitting if its broken or not! either way i still need to buy new pegs Grin

catgirl1976 · 30/05/2012 19:59

Wow. You are better than me. I think I am doing well if I do the laundry in the first place. Hanging it out is a minor miracle (some loads get washed 3 / 4 times before they go out), bringing it in is worthy of a parade, the pegs have never had a night in in their lives and I didn't even know people wipe the lines

Mind you - I do wipe down my skirting boards every other day (sometimes daily) and that impressed the crap out of someone on another thread

SwedishEdith · 30/05/2012 20:00

I find hanging the clothes out inside-out deals nicely with dirty peg marks. I've recently noticed that my neighbour has followed my lead and is also leaving her washing out overnight Grin Slumming down the neighbourhood

Mindyourownbusiness · 30/05/2012 20:02

My pegs are made from all recycled plasic and they came in a matching plastic peg holder with holes in that clips on the line.

As there is no metal in my pegs they dont rust so I always leave them out. Got them from Tesco years ago and not one of them missing or broken.

I rest my slovenly case. Grin

MarySA · 30/05/2012 20:02

That could be a new job for somebody like those oven cleaning people. We could have washing line wipers. It has never entered my head to wipe mine.

Bunbaker · 30/05/2012 20:05

"I have to wipe my rotary down each time as always lots of spiders webs and dirt."

Why? Do you leave it outside all the time? I keep mine in the garage and it doesn't get dirty.

AnneofGreenFables · 30/05/2012 20:06

catgirl can I please come and take the laundry in for you? I'll fold it up and everything Grin it brings out my inner Monica.

I actually did that once for our next door neighbours in our flats Blush It had been on the line for two weeks, I kid you not. Made my teeth itch. Not normally so Hyacinth Bucket, never wiped the line for instance!!! Fortunately they were really sweet and thanked me (and didn't ram it down my throat which I would have been tempted to do if someone touched my laundry)

Plus, I'm a shoes-on-indoors optional house so clearly just direct my Monica-isms at certain things

EasilyBored · 30/05/2012 20:06

It never occured to me to leave them on the line (we have a rotary thingybob), I think maybe something in my brain said 'but you're not allowed to leave them out, they belong in the peg bag, why would there be a bag if they were meant to live outside, HEY?!'

I beat away the spiderwebs on the rotary thing with a dustpan and brush, and just hang clothes inside out so if they get line dirt on them it doesn't show. Also leave washing out overnight (on the 3 days a year you can hang it out round here).

Surely the least slatternly option is to use a tumble dryer. Cause then there's no fuss with pegs and lines, AND the neighbours don't get to look at your giant Bridget Jones granny knickers?

catgirl1976 · 30/05/2012 20:07

Anne - you most certainly can. There's wine in it for you. :) You can put my books in alphabetical order too if you like :)

Cabbageflowers · 30/05/2012 20:08

Common. According to my grandmother anyway Smile

Inertia · 30/05/2012 20:08

I bring the pegs in because the next load of washing won't match those particular pegs. The blue washing needs the blue peg selection, obviously, so if I am bringing the green wash in the green pegs come in too.

EasilyBored · 30/05/2012 20:09

Also, if you leave washing out overnight SPIDERS WILL CRAWL INTO YOUR KNICKERS! Shock

Cabbageflowers · 30/05/2012 20:10

I also wipe the washing line before use Blush

EasilyBored · 30/05/2012 20:10

catgirl if your books need to be put in alphabetic order, what order are they in now?!

champagnesuperdupernova · 30/05/2012 20:11

You need lakeland soft grip pegs - they never snap
Brilliant for half-eaten by me sharing packs of crisps too.

catgirl1976 · 30/05/2012 20:12

No order at alleasily - just a jumble of titles, genres, authors, heights and colours..............