[Kleftiwallah]

Hello again playmates,
The question is,  what is the correct way to hang out double bed sheets on a standard clothed line??

Cheers,  Tony.

[Aunt Sally]

1.  Fold sheet in half

2. Peg open corners to the clothes line giving a little slack.

3. Peg centre of the side away from the prevailing wind to the line.

The wind will billow into the centre of the sheet and aid drying… job’s a good’n.

[Kleftiwallah]

Good afternoon Aunt Sally, 
that is exactly the way I was told by my dear old Mam and which I still do.  My wife and I have a difference of opinion.  She (the cat's mother!) just slings the sheet over the line.
That's one up to me...

Cheers,  Tony

[Aunt Sally]

Is it clothes pegs at dawn, in your garden, Klefty ?

[wighty]

Does the old rule that 'if you wear on your top, you peg it at the bottom, if you wear it on your bottom, you peg it from the top' still apply. I remember that  from childhood.

[Goosegirl]

I try to fold it in half in the kitchen, gather it up in my arms, chuck it over the line, then separate the two halves in stages as it keeps falling off. Eventually I end up with the sheet in a single piece draped slightly askew over the line. Tried the pegging method mentioned above but there's always one end that detaches itself so the whole lot falls on the ground. 

[Kleftiwallah]

It is very nearly pegs at dawn,  I have painted the finger ends of the stronger (sheet) pegs red so I can see them!

Cheers.  Tony.

[Aunt Sally]

Tried the pegging method mentioned above but there's always one end that detaches itself so the whole lot falls on the ground. 

Use double pegs if it’s very windy.

[Yorkie]

Does the old rule that 'if you wear on your top, you peg it at the bottom, if you wear it on your bottom, you peg it from the top' still apply. I remember that  from childhood.

Not heard the rule before, but it's what I generally do!

[Yorkie]

I try to fold it in half in the kitchen, gather it up in my arms, chuck it over the line, then separate the two halves in stages as it keeps falling off. Eventually I end up with the sheet in a single piece draped slightly askew over the line. Tried the pegging method mentioned above but there's always one end that detaches itself so the whole lot falls on the ground. 

That tends to be what I do ...

But I'm going to try doing this ... 

1.  Fold sheet in half

2. Peg open corners to the clothes line giving a little slack.

3. Peg centre of the side away from the prevailing wind to the line.

The wind will billow into the centre of the sheet and aid drying… job’s a good’n.

[Kleftiwallah]

Does the old rule that 'if you wear on your top, you peg it at the bottom, if you wear it on your bottom, you peg it from the top' still apply. I remember that  from childhood.

Not heard the rule before, but it's what I generally do!

I peg trousers and shorts from the turnup/foot end, the theory being that the wind will blow the thicker section of material and dry quicker.

Cheers,  Tony.

[snowdrops]

Does the old rule that 'if you wear on your top, you peg it at the bottom, if you wear it on your bottom, you peg it from the top' still apply. I remember that  from childhood.

Not heard the rule before, but it's what I generally do!

I peg trousers and shorts from the turnup/foot end, the theory being that the wind will blow the thicker section of material and dry quicker.

Cheers,  Tony.

Me too, I also do aunt Sally’s way for sheets unless it’s very windy then I sling them over the line in half & double peg ends, middle, & in between