Settle an argument re: pegs on the washing line

[EightMonthsScared]

Important stuff this!

DH and I disagree about what should happen to pegs on the washing line after you've taken the washing in.

DH takes all of the pegs off, every time. He claims that if you don't do this, it creates work next time you hang stuff up because you have to move the pegs out of the way.

Obviously, I just leave them up and he thinks this is bad practice. I think taking them down creates work the next time because you have to get them all out again.

So, over to you!

YANBU = Keep the pegs up
YABU = take the pegs down every time and put them in their special little peg bag.

What say you MN? 🤔

Always take the pegs off the line and put away (preferably in a peg bag or basket) - my mum drilled this into me! It's much easier to hang clothes out then and you won't get little spiders living in them if left on the line.

I have a peg basket that they get chucked in. I am lazy as fuck and I’m with your DH, in total, less aggro.

I also am a peg leaver-outer.

Although I did invest in some glorious solid metal (maybe stainless steel) rust-proof pegs last year so I'm not concerned about degradation... and I'm lazy.

Put the pegs away in the peg basket every time.

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I'm with your dh on this one. I take them down because;

1. They go brittle in the rain/cold/frost.

2. spiders like them for their homes.

3. I have a retractable line, and they look messy.

Is it just me or am I getting a 25-page thread vibes?!

Take them down or depending on the weather and type of peg they go rusty, slimy, mouldy, cobwebby or they break, plus it’s a pain to have to move the pegs about.

Same, I'm so naive I didn't know this was a hot topic.

Pegs away. Otherwise they go rusty in the rain or spiders make a home in them. Every year I moan I have to buy more and DH said it's because I leave them outside over one day then it rains and it becomes the whole winter.

Take them down and then put the line down ( rotary ) and put its cover on.

I leave them on the rotary line. Only certain types seem to go brittle. My plastic hurricane pegs seem ok and they’ve been on for over a year now.

Your grandmother is right. Given the specificity of this advice I would rather suspect this is not the only thing she's right about.

Pegs away.

I adore washing and drying/putting away (dire at all other household jobs). I can't stress how much I agree with your husband and how very very wrong you are. Its borderline I'd be telling him to LT*

Leave them out. I’ll only put them away over winter when I’m not hanging washing out. Never occurred to me to put them away I’m constantly hanging up new loads it would be such a faff 🤣

The pegs go in the peg bag, and the line is taken down too.

Seems unanimous OP. I agree with the majority. 😂

I leave them on the line. Washing comes out of the machine, up onto my shoulder, then I walk along the line pegging each thing up using the pegs that are right there on the line. If there's a spider web I brush it off with my finger, if the lines wet I ping it and all the water pings off.

Sooo much easier to throw the pegs in the peg bag rather than repeg them on the empty line! And sod having to move them all out the way next time too. Pegs always go in the peg bag here

Pegs away and line down

@Applebyapples @unicorncrumble I wholeheartedly concur.

I'm so bloody relieved! Thought I was going to be the only one who left pegs on the line!

It has never occurred to me to put pegs away! And then I wonder why they don't last. May have to change my ways.

Take them down and put them in my little hanging peg bag (yes I have a special hanging peg bag because I'm cool)