Washing Line Or Rotary?

dizziblonde

I keep toying with putting a whirly out here - garden's too small for a long line, the fences etc are wobbly and wouldn't take the weight, plus I've a very accident prone 6 foot 7 other half and I don't quite want to risk a clothesline as yet another thing he can bang his head and neck off!

froddington

I have a whirly, but I do have a very small garden! I find the bedding dries ok as long as it is on the longest bit and not all scrunched up.

errmmmm - I also have to have things pegged out in a certain way and with the same colour pegs on each item :o

Actually, I have 3 colours of pegs and 3 sides to my whirly - perfect ............

Miss_Behaving

ela wrote: »

LOL reading throuhg this. My neighbour wont mix coloured pegs for the same item,

I have to have my pegs matching too I'm sure it's why my children were so good with their colours when they were little!

Beccatje

froddington wrote: »

I have a whirly, but I do have a very small garden! I find the bedding dries ok as long as it is on the longest bit and not all scrunched up.

errmmmm - I also have to have things pegged out in a certain way and with the same colour pegs on each item :o

Actually, I have 3 colours of pegs and 3 sides to my whirly - perfect ............

Welll I suppose I'm the 'weird' one then huh?..

but honestly... my dear can you please tell me, what IS the point to the colours?.. I really honestly don't get it! How do you start doing that? How do you come up with the idea? It really baffles me. You are all talking about 'have to' but no one tells me why!?
WHY do they have to match? Why does your washing have to hang in a certain way?

And yes I'm a lousy housewife I know! lol!!
(but have been to the shops, hung my washing out on the whirly, started another load in the WM and had something to eat. So not spending the whole day here!)

oldMcDonald

I love my washing line. I love standing outside and pegging out the washing, watching the washing billow in the wind, looking down our row of houses and seeing lines of pegged out washing stretching from top to bottom of the gardens.

I also love using dolly pegs, they look so old-fashioned sitting in a row on the line, holding the washing in place.

Of all the household chores, pegging out the washing on the washing line is the one I really enjoy - I have no idea why, but it just gives me such a happy feeling!

Whirly-gigs just don't look, or feel, the same.

sistercas

as harry hill would say

I like the whirlygig and I like the washing line

but which is better?

theres only one way to find out......fight!!!
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funfairprincess

I have a washing lines and a plastic coated rope for easy cleaning. Peg bag, in blue tartan was made by my Auntie. I like to see the clothes dancing on the line. I miss all the fluffy white bamboo nappies on my line but kids don't stay little long.
I love my pegs to be rainbow like Valli . I also hang out my underwear, hung on the line bra and knickers matching. I couldn't care less who sees them as I have always bought underwear that I would be happy for George Clooney to see if I end up in A&E:rotfl::rotfl:

Valli

I went to visit a neighbour who had moved...as I stood in her kitchen I looked over at someone else's washing - and couldn't believe the haphazard way it had been pegged out...I actually said 'look at the state of her washing'...
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this thread could get nasty
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I wouldn't ever criticise mismatched pegs though - but I do like things to look nice;) so hanging 'upside down' is a definite no-no!

shelley1977

i have a line but have just bought the brabantia out of lakeland.i have never had a whirly before but im fed up only just getting half my washing hung outwhere as with the whirly i should beable to get it all hung out in the morning.i to like my washing pegged just so and in a certain order.

Spirit_2

Thank you everyone.

Having started this thread, and got the lowdown on how it should be done I will admit more fully to the present situation.

I have a whirly but it is about a foot shorter than it should be - I reversed into it and knocked it over when on our grass cutter tractor (we have a small paddock as well as the garden).

I have used wooden pegs but left them out in the rain so they got mould spots.

I have left washing on the line for several days so much so that it has faded:eek:

Whirly is 'out of sight' so out of mind, a washing line would be in my face and I imagine I would be a reformed launderess if I had one.

Having read the replies on here I am now convinced that I will never have the qualities necessary to do a line justice. Better not try to over-reach myself and stick with a Whirly. Might treat myself to a full height one again though.