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?

Don't go as far as matching pegs. As long as they're off the line (and more importantly, so is the washing!!), that's fine with me

All this talk of leaving washing out has given me an attack of the vapours!!

Definite slattern but up to you, so YANBU.

panic not i have brought the dryer in BUT one of the boys school jumpers had fallen off and has obviously been crawled over by a slug!! slimy slug trail all over it [boak] but i can wipe that off with a wetwipe right?! i dont need to wash it again...

picks up slattern award

lazy sods i never leave mine out

I make my own peg bags. I have several and change to use a different one often. They're made from dd's tiny dresses. When I knew I'd never have another girl, I recycled them and rather like looking at them on a sunny day as I peg out my laundry.

Another peg bag girl here. They get dirty (and the metal bit gets rusty) if you leave them out, then leave dirty marks on the next wash.

actually showofhands i like that idea! i cant bear to part with some of dd's tiny little dresses and that is a good way of reusing them and keeping them as a memory, of course i will never get around to doing that but i can live in hope

I usually leave my pegs on the line only occasionally put them in the peg bag.

I know this is a huge crime as my next but one neighbour made a big deal out of my slovenlyness

catchafallingstar correct width apart, not peg width (if that's waht you thought)

you know the pegs might be tee-shirt apart and left on and then you go to put a pair of jeans in the spot and the pegs are in the wrong place that's why you have to take them off the line

showofhands I applaud your inventiveness

My peg bag is made of scraps by my Gran and hangs off the line on a coat hanger. I then take it in (avoids spiders!)

Now no more of these horror stories of washing left out. It's nearly my bedtime (after watching the apprentice-- reading the Financial Times) and I won't sleep for thinking about it at this rate

I did have a plastic basket thing once hanging on the line for pegs , I dunno what happened to it though I think my grandsons nicked it to fill with stones.

5, it's really easy to do. Little dresses are the perfect shape. You just need a little hanger to sew into it and you need to sew it up and widen the neck slightly. Looks really quite godawful and twee sweet.

Well Anne, you wont sleep tonight as I have 2 loads on the line and as they got rained on a wee while ago, I am leaving them out overnight :o

it does sounds very easy yes! does it matter what type of hanger you use? i have some that came with some fancy dress outfits for the kids but they are padded with material, would that matter?

no-one has commented on my slug trail on the school jumper dilema or is it to slatternly to talk about, i mean wiping it clean with a wetwipe is fine isnt it?! i am just pleased with myself that i brought the washing in

Wetwipe is perfectly fine, i didnt answer because I thought you were joking! Everything that can be got off with a wet wipe saves a wash :o

Joking about needing to know, not joking about doing it!

Wet wipes have saved many a school morning panic "Oh shit! I forgot to put the washing on!" in this house!

Yep a wet wipe will sort it

i have already wiped it with a wetwipe,they are genius those things i dont think i shall ever stop buying them no matter how old my children get

I have to use matching pegs. 2 of the same colour or I get twitchy. It might .et left out but it looks good!

My pegbag is an old baygrow with the feet cut off...dead chuffed with it I am

I wipe my washing line clean with a wetwipe (not every time, mind you).

I leave my pegs out if rain is not forecast and I know I am going to be pegging out another load of washing the next day.

But mainly I bring them in. They are kept in a Pampered Chef plastic carrier bag.

I do not need to match the colours of the pegs.

I do hang my knickers on the line.

There. That's me done.

ShowofHands Genius idea making peg bags from baby dresses!

5madthings I hang my socks out in pairs. They can be properly paired as they come off the line, no faffing about looking for the other one of a pair.

I have one of those round things with lots of pegs dangling off, for drying socks. Saves line space. Now I want a line on a reel though.

[rushes in late to thread that I can't believe I've missed]

I live in an apartment in Japan with no garden (hence no rotary) but a balcony.

I have 3 much larger versions of these www.muji.eu/pages/online.asp?V=1&Sec=6&Sub=26&PID=449

They have built-in pegs [preens]
They regularly get taken indoors for a shower
Do I win? [hopeful]