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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?

OP posts:
EasilyBored · 30/05/2012 20:14

Oh. God.

catgirl1976 · 30/05/2012 20:15

You should see my understairs cupboard Blush

I think it would finish you off

ZuzuBailey · 30/05/2012 20:16

But if you take in your rotary thingybob doesn't the hole fill up? Mine is in gravel so I'd never be able to find the hole again.

I leave the pegs on the line, fold the thingybob up and pop the cover on

DonkeyTeapot · 30/05/2012 20:17

Until yesterday, our pegs lived on the line, but I got annoyed with a) always having to move pegs before I could hang big things like sheets out, and b) the pegs always being covered in spider webs. So yesterday I made myself a peg bag. :)

AnneofGreenFables · 30/05/2012 20:17

Hooray!!!!

Wait a minute...how did you know books were another one of my Monica-isms?

Oh no!! I am THAT person aren't I?

SleepyFergus · 30/05/2012 20:17

I also hang all socks, knickers and an d anything that doesn't need ironed on one section of the rotary drier, so when I bring the wash in, stuff needing to be ironed goes in the basket and non ironing stuff goes into one of those reusable Sainsbos bags so I can take it straight upstairs and sort docks/ put away whilst DD is fading about getting ready for bathtime

That's makes me sad but happy

Catsmamma · 30/05/2012 20:17

i wipe the line when i first pull it out, or if i am pegging out white bed linen

I have reel lines and i zig zag them across the yard via hooks in door frames and gate posts! I got good at it and once managed to cross them all and prop them up with the one clothesprop

but dh threw it away, the bastard denies it, but if he had not thrown it away I would still have it, wouldn't i??? so now i have to be careful of stuff dangling.

I bring most of the pegs in, but the children often leave them out which makes me cross. And I have a lovely peg tin to keep them all in.

EasilyBored · 30/05/2012 20:19

I never used to be like this. It's my husband, he's turned me into the kind of person who needs her CDs to be in alphabetical order, and sorts her baby's toys into types for storage. I used to keep all my clothes on the floor, for ease of access. What has happened to me?!

Bunbaker · 30/05/2012 20:19

"But if you take in your rotary thingybob doesn't the hole fill up?"

No. Mine is in the lawn.

usualsuspect · 30/05/2012 20:21

I don't have a rotary line , do all Mnetters have rotary lines? is this something else that I'm doing wrong?

AnneofGreenFables · 30/05/2012 20:21

Me too!! My clothes do still live on the floor from time to time. They like the space Grin

I blame having children, it's turned me into someone....I'll get there in a minute....yep, my Mum!!

CremeEggThief · 30/05/2012 20:28

YABU from me too, sorry.

If you don't want to fork out for a peg bag though, just use an old tupperware or cheap plastic box and have a peg box like I do!

CharltonHairstyle · 30/05/2012 20:30

Oooh - you must wipe the line! Imagine if your tighty-whities ended up ruined with line scrunt?

Bunbaker · 30/05/2012 20:30

"do all Mnetters have rotary lines?"

I only do because I have a small garden. I would far rather have a proper washing line all round the garden, but there isn't enough room. MIL has a long line and her washing dries far more quickly than mine.

CremeEggThief · 30/05/2012 20:30

Usualsuspect, I don't have a rotary line either, if it helps!

5madthings · 30/05/2012 20:30

you need to rebel easily tho i do sort the childrens toys isnt various types for storage purposes........ and dd's clothes are all organised and cord dresses hung together and then denim ones and then summer ones and the matching pants are all hung up and then her skirts and then her tutus.....i never used to be like this either...what has become of me?! Shock

catgirl1976 · 30/05/2012 20:30

I have a long swingy line line (if that makes sense)

nemno · 30/05/2012 20:31

I do not have a rotary line but I can see that having a cover would negate the need for wiping(or putting pegs away) but putting the cover on would take longer than running a cloth along a straight, pegless, line imo.

aliasjoey · 30/05/2012 20:31

I have a proper line. I think rotary lines are common. Grin

If the pegs stay out, they get dirty and make marks on the washing... I have a basket which hangs on the line, much easier than a bag.

usualsuspect · 30/05/2012 20:32

I have a swingy line , with a proper line post and a line prop

Mrsjay · 30/05/2012 20:32

catgirl do you stay over the back from me ? there is a serial washer leaver outerer and the last time it was a fortnight i was starting to think they had died Grin

catgirl1976 · 30/05/2012 20:33

uuuuummmmmmmmmm

It might be me Blush

CharltonHairstyle · 30/05/2012 20:35

I have a line that goes aaaalllll the way across the garden.

There is a hook I put on a pole at the end of the garden and the line is retractable.

Mrsjay · 30/05/2012 20:36

i have a proper drying line with metal poles usualsuspect

catgirl as long as i know you and yours are still alive and just lazy its fine Grin

bogeyface · 30/05/2012 20:37

Books should never be organised unless you live in a library!

An academic friend of mine says he loves my shelves as Asterix and the Big Fight is next to Divine Comedy which is next to The Da Vinci Code which is next to Mrs Beeton. He says that books are meant to be read and loved and mine obviously are.

He says he also loves looking at my shelves as he can work out what my current favourites are by where they are, and he is nearly always right! But then I have almost 1000 books, so organising them would take too much out of my reading time :o