Spring type, or slide on clothespins?

[maytagbear]

I can't have a clothes line, because I do not have acess to a back yard, and here, in this marginal neighbourhood, the clothes would more than likely walk off, anyway.

However, what's your favourite type of clothespin?

I really prefer the wood slide on ones...with the round heads, and taper.

However, I do admit that the spring type can be useful..that they more easily adjust for heavier fabrics...

(not to mention other uses.) Like clamping a pretzel bag closed, or keeping a few papers together.

Today is an utterly gorgeous day here, sunny and upper 60s F...be perfect for line drying. Oh, well.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[gadgetgary]

Did a load today

In my new TL(DC) Maytag and hung it on the line with those 'spring' clothespins.

Toggle taught me a trick so that the towels would not be so stiff.....fluff them in the dryer for about 15-20 min.
Today, I used the Vintage Maytag dryer(DE308) on 110V to fluff the towels. They came out wonderful after being line dried.

Modern and vintage laundry....YAY!

 

[petek]

Funnny, I did one of my first clothesline dryings last week seeing as we now have one for the first time and I thought after the fact I shoulda taken a picture LOL Anyways, I had to run to the dollar store and buy clothespins and got about 40 of the little plastic spring ones, made in China naturally as is everything. Our line is one of those ones on a pulley I can stand on the porch and do it. Growing up we always had the type with 3 or 4 wires between two T shaped goal posts. Moms still has that type.

 

[peterh770]

Spring type -- because you can use them intact or pull them apart to trigger the lid switch in some washers to watch the fun!

 

[JerseyMike]

Both ...

I live an apartment and my lease expressly prohibits clotheslines. The area where my family has lived for over 70 years has turned from working class and affordable to millon dollar condos, so I can't afford to do anything to risk my rent controlled apartment. My parents live a couple blocks from me. They still have a clothesline. (My mom doesn't own a dryer.) I sometimes use their washer. Since I have no choice but to hang the laundry out to dry, I use both push clothespins and spring clothespins on each piece of laundry. If something needs only two pins, the left pin is always a push pin and the right pin is always a spring pin. If something needs more then two pins, then I alternate between push and spring pins.

Mike

 

[foraloysius]

Spring pins

I only have spring pins, the push pins have disappeared here many years ago. Besides that I use spring pins on all kind of packages and bags in the kitchen.

As a kid I used to make a noisemaker for the frontwheel of my bike. IIRC you needed an empty metal shoe polish box, a strong piece of elastic band and some clothes pins. The elastic band was put very tightly around the metal box. Two or three halfs of spring clothes pins were put on top of the box, these were supposed to be hit by the spokes in the wheel. With two more clothes pins this thing was attached to the small bar next to the frontwheel of the bike. Rattle rattle rattle!! The things we did as a child to annoy older people. LOL

 

[foraloysius]

I forgot that you also needed a rope to keep the clothes pin halfs in the wheel. I did a Google search and found a picture of such a noise machine! Great memories!

 

[washabear]

We can't have clothes lines where I live because of the dreaded community association rules. My mother, however, has always used the wood slide-on type. It's the only type that I am familiar with. She has a cloth bag to hold them that you can hang on the line, too.

 

[polkanut]

We have the spring type because of the various thicknesses of fabrics. Last summer I purchased a new clothesline, the old posts were starting to rust quite badly. The link shows what they look like. We have the 20 footer.

http://www.freudenthalmfg.com/clothes_line/

 

[rp2813]

Louis, that noise making contraption is much more sophisticated than what my friends and I did on our bikes. We simply got an old deck of playing cards and used clothes pins to clip them onto the fender brace leaving a long enough portion for the spokes to make contact and create a flapping sound. The more cards clipped to the bike, the more noise you could make, although putting too many on did require more pedal power.

 

[petek]

We did the old playing card or baseball cards routine as well.
Re neighborhood bylaws against clotheslines I don't think there's any in our community but I know they existed in some Calgary neighborhoods. It's a given these days that those neighborhood rules are going to be dismissed soon enough as more people get on the energy conservation bandwagon.

 

[bingwsguy]

PeterH770

I did that same thing with 1/2 a clothespin when I was a kid...I forgot all about that until I read your post. I have always used the spring type as those were the preferred type of my Mom and her Mom because they provided a better grip and you could "double up" pieces easier. My Dad's Mom used the slide/push type... maybe I will give them a try.

 

[vintagesearch]

spring clothes pin, we have wooden and plastic cheap and expensive american and puerto rican clothes pins LOL! ohh and an unaviodable set of chinese (made in china). And about 3 disfunctional ropes tangled and stretched apart to hang clothes on you guys need to see it im gonna post a pic so you can see what i call our "dryer"

 

[lederstiefel1]

clothespins or pegs

Woodden ones - we only have those - I threw all others away! Plastic ones are rubbish!

We use them constantly on the attic - guess, I have about 200 of them in a big box up there!

Ralf

 

[sudsmaster]

I prefer the spring type. I use the largest possible, the "Industrial Quality" big blue ones from... gasp... Walmart... The wooden ones are nearly impossible to find, and the same size in plastic don't last very long. But have had good luck with the big blue ones.

 

[panthera]

wooden, spring loaded

'Cause they pinch so well.
Actually, I seldom hang clothes out to dry. The biddies who run our co-op frown upon anyone under the age of 70 doing anything in "their" domain. When I do hang clothes out, I have to stay out with them until they are dry or one of the nasty old witches will throw them down.
Hmm, I daresay another use for those pins occurs to me, but this being a good, clean family site, I guess I'll just have to...clamp down on that one.

 

[gansky1]

I have a mixture of both in my "working" clothespin bag but the spring-type are the ones I use the most. I have a small collection of vintage clothespin bags (a few in the pic) and have ended up with far too many clothespins, I donated a bunch to a thrift store and have given away as many as possible keeping only what I will use. I have some very old clothespins, some printed with advertising, and some that look hand-carved.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Does anyone remember the round, vinyl tote bag that you could get from Coppertone sun tan oil back in the 50s or early 60s? It had a round base and a double draw cord around the opening at the top. It's white and turquoise with a little bit of copper color. This was a friend's clothespin bag and after she died, I grabbed it. Inside, I found both wooden types and both styles in plastic. The plastic push on style are solid colors, but the spring type are bright clear colors.

 

[aquarius1984]

Form one of my all time favourite UK comedy series:

The League of Gentlemen starring Reece Shearmith, Steve Gatiss and Steve Pemberton.

This was from the 2nd Series shown in the UK in 1999.
The circus master who goes from town to town crying "OH YOUR MY WIFE NOW! and stealing the local women to become his wives.

Espa guru pebble tik bana but no seras me?!

Rob