More than just hanging your clothes
Bizarely enough, the humble clothes peg has quite a following, from the early years in hollywood to the baudy world of bondage, here are just a few of the many uses we have found.
If you have come across any others, let us know and we will add them to the list:
- Mini-clamps in modelling hobbies
- Hanging old-type film up to dry after developing as well as prints when they are drying
- Substitute for a nose clamp used in diving
- Clipping music sheets to music stands to prevent the wind from turning the page, or the music sheet from blowing away when playing outside
- Artists use pegs to suspend their brushes in oil to keep them supple, or when they are in a cleaning solution. The peg is balanced on the top of a jar holding the brush so that the brush end is in the fluid, but not touching the bottom, which could ruin the brush.
- Attaching to your face putting a quilt cover on a quilt
- Matching sets of bras and briefs. Peg them together before putting them in the drawer.
- Attached to pieces of string may be pinned to the notice board for various uses.
- Edge of the tablecloth as weights to hold it in place
- To hold a match can give a few extra inches of safety between your fingers and the ignition point
- Amuse children by using pegs is the game 'Red Peggy', which is similar to an Easter egg hunt
- Plant identification tags
- Protect tender plants during the winter by making a bubble-wrap tepee. Using three garden canes placed in the ground in a circle, bind at the top, and wrap bubble-wrap around the canes and hold it together with a few pegs
- A couple of pegs and a piece of that very useful kitchen roll, and you've got a disposable bib for your baby
- Finding your car in a large car park. Simply peg a piece of brightly coloured card, or some coloured ribbon to your car's aerial
- Clip your umbrella to those of friends, so there are no gaps for the sun's strong rays to get through
- Peg a towel around the rim of the umbrella to make an igloo-shaped tent to protect from sun and wind on the beach
- Peg a towel around the rim of the umbrella to make an igloo-shaped tent.
