keeping pegs and washing insect free

rosepink1984

LOL Dusty and Moj2 you are such peg obsessives! Now give Emily some sensible insect repelling peg advice! :rotfl:

I'm afraid I'm no good to you Emily, I have to hang mine out inside as don't have a garden

kazwookie

Blimey

It is a peg epidemic.

I have bought pinkand blue ones for this year.

I still have yellow, white, wooden, blue and red from last year!!

SunnyGirl

I like all the pegs to match :rotfl: so tend to buy the wooden clip ones. They're cheap as well, something like 99p for 50 last year in Wilkie's.

Triker

Pegs should be jumbled up, all different sizes all different shapes and colours Emily......ignore Valli she has a *ahem* slight[STRIKE] fixation [/STRIKE]problem with pegs.:rotfl:

Valli

emily_jackson wrote: »

Hi,

As it's now so warm I've started hanging the washing oustide. However I find that the clothes and pegs seem to attract insects. Does anyone have any ideas on how to keep them at bay? The only things I can think of are to bring the pegs inside after use and to not buy wooden pegs. Does it make a difference what sort of washing powder you use?

I am really fascinated now - because when I initially answered your query yours was post 1 and mine was post 2
Sounds like spiders then - are you 'under' trees?

Mind you I never leave mine outside at all - because the sun can change them (UV) - and make them brittle and obviously wooden pegs being natural will rot. Also not good for them to get wet/dry out.

All the pegs I use are yellow. I like pegs to match, me. (WTG Sunnygirl and Mumofjust2) And if it's fine I pegs out...

I am in heaven - a whole thread devoted to pegs:D:D:D

Been a brilliant drying day today. So lots of lovely ironing done - and some still to do:cool:

Triker's just a rebel:rotfl: s'all that anarchy she absorbed as a teeny:rotfl:

buxtonrabbitgreen

Wow you peg obesessives. Mine are all colours and sizes and I am too lazy to bring them in so they stay there till winter when it is too wet to hang out.
The thing I really really hate is finding earwigs on the washing. I have this obsession of my own, of an earwig crawling of the xheet into my ear and eating my brain. maybe it already happened. lol

nesssie1702

My pegs are a jumbled mismatch - plastic, wooden, small and large, some are storm pegs, some have soft grip! all depends what I'm hanging out which ones I'll use. A pair of jeans won't be hung up with the same type of peg as a pair of pants

I take my pegs in after each use, so never have a problem with insects on them. I keep them all in a bag that I got free with Eve magazine at least 3 years ago. The bag before that came free with Marie Clare but the dog chewed it!!

Valli

earwigs :eek: I hate them.
So I don't have the sort of flowers they like.;)

I'm NOT peg obsessive! I just like my washing to look like it has been hung properly and not thrown on the line:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
socks in pairs...

Quillion

I do socks in pairs thats not silly its common sense.
I don't have colour co-ordinated pegs just my whirly gig is colour co-ordinated when i hang out the washing.
I don't have a problem with insects but do get lots of little spiders.
I always have to wipe my line as the spiders that live on it lay egs on it which is good to see but not if they hatch. Hundreds of the little blighters.

Sorry was not much use.

I store my pegs in a mini jute bag;)

Valli

My pegs live in a peg bag I made myself with french seams and I lined it. It would pass as a shoulder bag in a hippyish sort of way! At one time I had way too much time on my hands...
I wish I had that much time now!
BTW Buxton do you live there? Would have thought it too cold to peg out at all up there except maybe July/August;):D:rolleyes::rotfl:
Just joking - it's lovely up there (dead posh too - tugs forelock as befitting lowly town dweller when meeting landed gentry):cool: