I'm driving myself mad with my pedantry!

Forget washing lines and forget pegs. I put everything into the tumble dryer, it's so quick and easy. The towels come out soft, the clothes need virtually no ironing which offsets the cost of the dryer (which isn't very much anyway}. I always use a single tumble dryer softener sheet each time which gives everything a lovely smell. Blue and pink pegs? ditch them.

Nanasam,
You really need to get out more, just take a look at some of the awful things going on in the world today, so many people don't even know what a peg is.
Take five and chill!

Thanks. Dannyrae!

I am exactly the same nanasam, and buy plain wooden pegs. Problem solved!

When there were four of us at home not only did I colour code when pegging but each member of the family had their own side of the 4 sided rotary airer. The advantage was that when taking it in each person's stuff was together ready sorted but it did strress me out if I had too much stuff for one member of the family and ran out of space or pegs. Clearly I'm not alone which is kinda reassuring!

Hi Polly - Wilco do peg bags that can be hung up!

nanasam - please go right back to old-fashioned wooden pegs (no colour co-ordination involved) before you go round the bend!

On the other hand, this seems fairly harmless compared to some of the full-blown OCD's that some people unfortunately find they've acquired.

I solved the peg problem by buying stainles steel pegs! There is one problem with them though, I hung the peg bag on the washing line on Tuesday when it was SO hot, and 2 hours later when I got another peg out of it, the pegs were too hot to hold! I must remember to leave the peg bag in the shade from now on!

Virgo traits run through me like a stick of rock...nit-picking, methodical, list-making, organised etc. But these traits merge into OCD so I often wonder where one ends and the other starts !
Peg organisation on the washing line? Yes, been there done that, gave up and now I only use a tumble dryer.
During Football World Cup when everyone was hanging St George's flags on cars and buildings, I found myself obsessed by hanging washing using only alternate red and white pegs.... And I don't even follow football!!

The colours don't bother but I have outside and inside pegs. Practical reason for this as the outside pegs are the strongest. I get really exasperated when helpful DH or DD muddle them up.

I do not care what colour the pegs are, never heard of all this before. Surely pegs are pegs! The only thing I do not like and find irritating are pegs left out on the line when the washing is in? My daughter and one or two others I know do this. Also a neighbour where I used to live would leave all the washing out day and night taking items off the line as and when needed. When there was eventually just a line full of pegs , the next lot of washing would appear......?

Anyone ever watched the Julia Robertson film 'Sleeping with the Enemy'.? Poor girl panic stricken if tins in cupboards weren't lined up in the right order.? Towels in bathroom hanging in the right length.?

Oh this made me laugh! I'm the same, but I have wooden pegs and grey plastic pegs - and never the twain shall meet! I've also somehow inherited a red plastic peg and some smaller, less sturdy, wooden pegs. I can't use the red peg unless I'm only hanging one thing out.
I can't mix the smaller wooden ones with their sturdier counterparts, but at least I can hang something out with a pair of them.
I'm Virgo ascendant, but I would still call this OCD (or being anal) rather than pedantry

I couldnt care less what colour pegs I use! I used to have wooden ones but they went mouldy when left outside and make marks on the clothes so I threw them out and got plastic ones. I rather like the effect of random coloured pegs - if I think about it which I usually dont.
But my peg bag which hooks on the rotary drier has fallen apart - anyone know where I can get another?

I do the thing with matching pegs but life's too short to put underwear and socks on the line, and towels only come off like cardboard so they go in the drier as well.
Re putting washing up away, once, after my husband had emptied the dishwasher, and after a short search, my daughter and asked him 'if you were a cheese grater where would you be?' - it's become a family joke now

Get a life I say !! Try my way - No Pegs Required !!
My washing hardly ever reaches the washing line, never mind about pegging if out - backs of chairs on the patio if it's sunny and on the radiators inside if it's wet!! Simples!!

I call this OCP cos it makes me happy to see matching pegs on my washing line and even husband does it now....also like to match the colour of the item....so sad but such fun! Hee hee

My clothes pegs are all wooden.

My socks are all the same in just three colours so I can mix them without having to sort them.

However I always pair my socks from the washing machine, pegged to the clothes line and into the airing cupboard.

Everything else is a mess.

BTW, this thread should be called:

"I'm driving myself mad with my pegantry!"

Nope - any colour pegs suit me - but as I said on another thread, I never leave them on the line. I hang my peg bag on the line and put them in as I go along.

Is this for real?

PS I'm not using the word 'fussy' in a nasty way.

I'm bookmarking this thread so that if any of my family ever say I'm fussy I can tell them to read it.

Blimey the world is falling to pieces and some of you worry about the colour of pegs PLEEEZE
there is only one way to cure this and yes it is OCD you hang your washing out with a jumble of pegs then go and get on with life do this a few times and you will have broken the habit but you have to make your self go through the discomfort that is if you want to bother if not just enjoy your same colour pegs and give the infiltrators away you can send them to me I ll use anything that does the job

I am another who mixes pegs plastic wood all colours as long as they do the job but I do know a few people who have to use matching colours .?

* Nanasam*, go for it girl,my wife does not understand my Virgo traits. I like everything in its place, because as you said," where did you get it from". Pedantic, no organised..