to be ^horrified^ at my Dm's NDN's slatternly ways?

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Bottoms from the bottom and tops form the top.

Shpuld I educate the poor soul?

Most water retentive part at the top to allow gravity to assist with even drying. Can be turned over to assist with final drying if more airflow required. My idea of matching pegs is same material. Love poppers on baby clothes, no pegs required. Ditto for velcro on nappies.

I hang everything from the bottom. Apart from one dress that doesn't need ironed if you hang it from the top. My pegs don't match either.

Thinks that make me irrationally angry 1. People who leave their pegs on the line 2. People who use tumble dryers when they could peg out. Just seems like such a waste!

I know nothing.
OH is the LaundryMeister.
I just expect my clean, ironed clothes to be on hangers in my wardrobe.

I hang tops/dresses under the armpits. That way you don't see the peg marks and you don't get out of shape clothes.

But I agree with the majority on bottoms, always from the top.

Yes all directions... Tops from the armpits to prevent peg marks.

In fact all directions are you my mum?

Does it really matter? As long as the pegs are matching of course...

my ds has witnessed and bought in clothes from the line many many times

yet the first time he hung his jeans out he pegged them side ways along one leg

Does it really matter?

Use the poppers to hang up baby vests?

Well I never. What a simply brilliant idea!

DH picks a corner of any item of clothing and hangs it up by that.

But if you do trousers from the bottoms the weight of the waistband pulls the creases out so you don't have to iron them surely? Not that I iron them anyway!

Tops from the bottom and trousers from the bottom. I find that actually pegging the waist band makes it dry much slower as its all bunched up rather than blowing freely in the breeze.

Pants are pegged on the gusset

But if you do trousers from the bottoms the weight of the waistband pulls the creases out so you don't have to iron them surely? Not that I iron them anyway!

And can stretch the fabric and distort the shape.

Why is this stuff not taught in schools So much more important than algebra...

Oh my god. I got a curtsy from NannyOgg.

I probably owe her a really big favour now. She'll be storing that one up for future use.

Pants pegged from the side surely?

Baby sleepsuits pegged from the toes.

I have 2 lines rather than a rotary and every thing has a certain place and direction to face. Towels at ends, the trousers then tops moving inwards. Pants and socks in the middle.

Socks in pairs.
but
Do socks get pegged from the toes or the tops? That's something that's always bothered me. It freaks me out as I can't figure out which way to do it.

And strappy tops by the straps. Zero peg marks then.

I love this ~ DH keeps saying there is something wrong with me cos I am OCD with washing line ~ this confirms I AM NOT ALONE

Matching pegs and matching colours a must ~ I love looking out window and admiring my immaculate whirly gig!!!

I used to hang tops from the bottom and bottoms from the top, but then it started to piss me off that all the washing would be dry except for a couple of damp patches in uncomfortable places in the jeans.

So now jeans are hung from the bottoms.

With non-matching pegs.

And sometimes they're left out all night, because I've either forgotten about them or cba to fetch them in.

So there.

(although I don't tolerate pegs being left on the line. Ds1, who has to do his own laundry, just whips his clothes off the line, leaving the pegs either in place or pinging off across the ground. I may have to kill him at some point)

Oh and knickers go an a special knicker hanger, which has its own pegs, so no peg angst there.

I'm a bottoms from the legs person too and never had a problem with stretched fabric.

I also put things that need to be on their own in the middle (rotary dryer) so I get longer lengths where I can share pegs between thing, t-shirts for example. I have three billion pegs but I still ever have enough. I have 60ms of line and its very often full. I do a lot of laundry and have worked out the best methods for everything so will be sticking my fingers in my ears

Some posters seem to have turned washin ghanging in to a science,!

Blinking heck.

My red wash is out in the lashing rain atm, and I Don't Care.

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MrsMook...Poppers on baby clothes! How did I never ever realise this? You are an absolute genius and I slightly love you

Baby vests to be poppered over the washing line from now on. That means more pegs for more washing. Yay

Mines out in the rain too chaos. The next lot has had to go in the dryer so there's no point bringing it in to fester anyway

Do you know, not only do our pegs not match, they were inherited from the previous occupants when we bought the house. Who knows where they actually came from. Once never bought pegs in my life.

Mostly I use the tumble drier though as its easier and your clothes never get crispy.

Socks by the toes in pairs so you can turn the tops over as you take them off the line.