Leaving pegs on washing line?

[ThisQuirkyPeachHare]

I've always left my pegs on the washing line... All year round.
I saw a peg bag in the shop and now I'm wondering... Should I bring my pegs in each day with the washing? AIBU to leave them out all the time?🤣
Do you bring yours in? Why? 🤷‍♀️🤣

Like other PPs our line is retracted when not in use so the pegs have to come in. I've got a hanging peg bag kept on a hook on the back of the understairs cupboard. The wash basket gets put in the cupboard at the same time.

At our old house the line was permanent but it honestly never occurred to me to leave pegs on it (and I can be quite slovenly!). I think they'd get brittle/rusty/rotten/mucky depending what they're made of. My peg bag was one of the first new things I bought when I moved from a flat to a house. I was so excited about it, how silly!

Like other PPs our line is retracted when not in use so the pegs have to come in. I've got a hanging peg bag kept on a hook on the back of the understairs cupboard. The wash basket gets put in the cupboard at the same time.

At our old house the line was permanent but it honestly never occurred to me to leave pegs on it (and I can be quite slovenly!). I think they'd get brittle/rusty/rotten/mucky depending what they're made of. My peg bag was one of the first new things I bought when I moved from a flat to a house. I was so excited about it, how silly!

This. We have nowhere in the garden that you could leave a washing line set up constantly so we have a retractable one that rolls away when we aren't using it.

So the pegs can't stay on it.

Aside from that, who wants spidery, damp, rusty pegs? Especially as you're using them on your clean stuff?

Common as muck. Not my rule!

When I was very young, we had no outside space of our own, and several families shared communal drying space on a patch of land at the end of the street. It was my job to carry the peg bag and hand my mum the pegs.

She would no more of thought of applying for astronaut training than leaving her pegs out on the line, and I'm afraid it's rubbed off on me. 60 years later and I'm still careful to put them back in the peg bag. Oh, and a small shout out for Today brand recycled plastic pegs from Amazon, which don't seem to go brittle.

Exactly this ! ... or I walk out in the garden the next day in bare feet and tread on the one tiny (sharp) piece I couldn't find the day before.

I bring them for reasons like others have posted - they get dirty, brittle, etc., but also because it is faff moving them or removing them when pegging out washing.

Bring them in AND wipe the washing line before hanging stuff out if it's been a while (due to weather, not lack of washing sadly)

I'd love to walk around our garden barefoot. But we have foxes, deer and badgers (as well as our dog who is sneaky sometimes) so there might be unexpected poo. Plus I'm allergic to literally all bug bites and stings going (except wasps, weirdly) so I would definitely get hurt 🤣

I'm very jealous of you.

I leave them out because I'm lazy. I should bring them in because they get dirty, the spring gets rusty, they look untidy, and unless I'm pegging out the same items in the same place every time, its annoying because theres always too big a gap between them in some places, with little clusters in others.

@IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos Ooooo... fox poo between the toes 😖
I don't do it after dark since treading bare foot on a large slug. That was bad enough !

I feel a bit ill just thinking about slugs between the toes🤢

I'd still like to be able to though!

Mine get put in their tin that says PEGS on it 😂

I take down our rotary line and put it in the shed after I’ve finished with it, we’ve got a pretty garden and it annoys me seeing it sticking out the lawn !

We have far more foxes, hedgehogs and local cats than we did when we moved here 25 years ago.

I'm sure this is an excellent thing for wildlife (well, maybe not the cats) but is does mean I've gone from being barefoot almost all the time I'm in the garden to wearing something on my feet at all times.

Fox shit underfoot is sticky, stinky and disgusting. Hedghogs are adorable but their scat is not.

I've managed to shed most of my snobbery now, but pegs left on the line is one thing I still feel very snobby about.

Mine come in. I used to leave them out on a rotary airer as it had a cover on but I found that earwigs went into them overnight. Loads of earwigs. Then they would drop out of the pegs as I used them and it was like a horror film. So pegs go into the bag and in on little hook, safe and sound.

This! Very chavvy to leave pegs on the line

Live on the line, life’s too short to worry about spending £2 on new pegs now and then.

Always bring them in. You wouldn't want spiders to rub their willies on them. Has MN taught you nothing? 🙄

I always take the pegs off the line.But on the odd time DH takes washing in( and dumps it creased onto the kitchen worktop) he always puts the pegs back on the line.... ... i hate it and also think its a bit lazy and 'common' but this is the man who painted our door number on the wheelie bin in white gloss paint.... now IMO thats a 'common' thing to do... any one else do this? 🤣

I left mine out over the winter and have had to invest in a whole new set this spring. Wooden ones rust and plastic ones break. Get a peg bag!

I leave 2 or 4 on the line so that towels used for showering yes, we use towels more than once or a swimsuit, and maybe the bathmat can be hung out easily.

I have quality pegs and a lovely peg bag and a washing line that stays up all the time.

Never leave them out and always wooden ones.

I bought stick on numbers from Amazon. Much posher. 😁

I always leave mine on the line BUT I always end up having to throw them away after a year because they get brittle and break! I never learn...