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Settle an argument re: pegs on the washing line

264 replies

EightMonthsScared · 23/06/2023 21:02

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? 🤔

OP posts:
Fiddledeedeeee · 23/06/2023 22:12

I always take mine off the line. Leaving them on makes me twitch, as does a saggy line!

Justcallmebebes · 23/06/2023 22:12

Down every time and in my peg bag. Can't understand why you'd leave pegs on the line

Youknowaboutthepaint · 23/06/2023 22:14

Definitely take the pegs in.

They get dirty out in all weather, it looks untidy, makes it a pain to put the line away if you want to and it really doesn't save any time. Plus it's slovenly 😆

FabFitFifties · 23/06/2023 22:14

Plastic go brittle, and wooden go rusty at the hinge (plus they get dirty and leave marks). Although this is all hypothetical as I always put mine away. Some are at least 30!

Justcallmebebes · 23/06/2023 22:14

Fiddledeedeeee · 23/06/2023 22:12

I always take mine off the line. Leaving them on makes me twitch, as does a saggy line!

I think you may be my soul mate Grin

WolfFoxHare · 23/06/2023 22:15

One year I left them all out and by the following spring, they were rusty and brittle. The ones that didn't break, went mouldy. Now I bring the replacements in every time.

theelectricnorth · 23/06/2023 22:15

I thought it was just common sense that you had to take them in or spiders might drag their willies along the pegs at night?

7eleven · 23/06/2023 22:16

I’m very house proud inside - Hoover every day etc but just can’t arsed with the pegs.

Blondeshavemorefun · 23/06/2023 22:17

Take them down

Annoys me having then on the line

Always on the way

HowcanIgetoutofthisalive · 23/06/2023 22:17

Swansandcustard · 23/06/2023 21:58

Apart from rusting of the metal bits, pegs out all the time is SLATTERNLY!

you dirty scutter

My mil would sniff and say 'she's no better than she ought to be'...

Redebs · 23/06/2023 22:18

If you leave them out, they go brittle and explode into plastic splinters at eye level when you try to unclip them. Plus, they look ugly.

We have lots of trees in our tiny garden, so we put clothes on hangers and hook them over the branches!

Clingfilm · 23/06/2023 22:18

FatAgainItsLettuceTime · 23/06/2023 21:19

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.

I'd need a brickie's shod to carry a load from my machine to the line!

Take them off of course, can't stand going to hang something up and there's a rogue peg in the middle.

RudsyFarmer · 23/06/2023 22:19

I leave them on the line and my life ticks away very nicely.

Astrabees · 23/06/2023 22:19

I have stainless steel pegs that you can get from Amazon. They stay outside but I wash them occasionally in the dishwasher.

RedCrestedDragon · 23/06/2023 22:21

Hurricane pegs don’t rust.

redbullhabit · 23/06/2023 22:21

Always leave them out. Saves time ! Wooden pegs are the answer. They don't go brittle

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 23/06/2023 22:24

@redbullhabit

My wooden ones eventually went all rusty on the hinges and just minging in general and eventually fell to bits.

ActDottie · 23/06/2023 22:26

I’m with you husband on this one. Pegs off the line.

SoftSheen · 23/06/2023 22:27

Take them off the line and bring them into the house. Otherwise they end up faded/mouldy/brittle and get on the way when you try to hang things up.

BasilParsley · 23/06/2023 22:28

My Mum was born and bred in Derby but had parental roots much further oop north... As a teenager, still living at home. if I did my washing (in the twin tub!) and hung it up to dry but then left the pegs on the whirligig thing once I brought it in she would tell me off along the lines of "you don't leave pegs on the line overnight like Mrs (??maybe Smith?) from Ockbrook Street!" I have never found an Ockbrook Street and I don't know who Mrs Smith (?) was. But, clearly, I needed to temper my ways so I wasn't like her!

oOiluvfriendsOo · 23/06/2023 22:30

Pegs away.
Spiders build homes in them and they become brittle and snap over time.

Youknowaboutthepaint · 23/06/2023 22:30

BasilParsley · 23/06/2023 22:28

My Mum was born and bred in Derby but had parental roots much further oop north... As a teenager, still living at home. if I did my washing (in the twin tub!) and hung it up to dry but then left the pegs on the whirligig thing once I brought it in she would tell me off along the lines of "you don't leave pegs on the line overnight like Mrs (??maybe Smith?) from Ockbrook Street!" I have never found an Ockbrook Street and I don't know who Mrs Smith (?) was. But, clearly, I needed to temper my ways so I wasn't like her!

Ockbrook is a village in Derbyshire

TheCheeseTray · 23/06/2023 22:30

assonant · 23/06/2023 21:04

I'm with your DH. Always take them off. I agree with him that it saves time, but also over time they rust or the plastic goes brittle if you leave them outside.

This

sushiandsauvignon · 23/06/2023 22:30

I can't be bothered taking them down, so I leave them up. I've had some that have been there years and are still fine 🤷🏻‍♀️

Newusernameforthiss · 23/06/2023 22:31

TW: I am a slattern

Leave them out! Just undo the peg a bit, pull off the clothes, put clothes in washing basket, then next time, they're all in roughly clothes sized gaps, there, on the line, where you need them.

I love my MiL, she bought me a peg bag and I was like what even is this?!? She explained about them fading and going brittle and honestly... Who can be arsed. They are clothes pegs. why create an extra job of getting them out every time?!?

Let's just be really honest and add: tumble dryers are a great invention 😜

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