Does anyone use these anymore?

[HorseRtist]

[flashback]

Only to clip baseball cards to the spokes of my bike.

[Daisy Mae]

Yes, I use them. Nothing beats the fresh smell of bedding dried outside.

[Karm Redland]

Hi Jo. Your photograph brings back lots of memories for me. For years, I was my mother's slave in helping her hang clothes outside. (My older sister was always smart enough to disappear during clothes hanging time.) I never really mined helping her and like Daisy stated the payoff was in the freshness of the sheets.

karm

[HorseRtist]

I remember people doing that!!!!

[HorseRtist]

Absolutely! I wish I had clotheslines just for bedding!

[HorseRtist]

I did that too, Karm, and somehow loved doing it. The clothes always smelled so good when I took them down!

[Mito]

We always use them. All our washing is dried outside in the sun and if it's wet in front of the fire.

[Snowy55]

Yes indeed. You can still buy wooden pegs just like those pictured here in Australia

[Manfred M]

They are my "weapon of choice" to attach gels to studio lights and video lights. I understand that some people use them to dry clothes too.

You can buy them at one of my favourite photo stores:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...thes_Pins.html

[Tom Barry]

Yep, I've seen people using them for their original purpose - in some high-dollar neighborhoods with BMW's in the driveways - as recently as last week in nearby metropolitan Austin, TX. I think the reason is that clothes simply smell better when dried on clotheslines in the breeze.

[Inkanyezi]

I don't use them around here in Sweden any more, but in Cuba we do. We get them in Sweden however, and they are still made here. In Santiago de Cuba we dry the laundry from clotheslines on the rooftop. Bedding and underwear dried in the sun smells nice. Wooden ones are far superior to the plastic clips of the same design.

[HorseRtist]

Sounds good to me!

[HorseRtist]

You can here too. Lots of people here still have clotheslines. I wish I did.

[HorseRtist]

I'd have never thought of using them to attach gels. Thanks for the tips. Our Walmart still sells them too.

[HorseRtist]

I agree 100% about the clothes smelling better. Thank you for looking.

[HorseRtist]

Thank you for looking. I still have some of these in my laundry room but don't use them. I have never had any plastic ones.

[Donald]

Absolutely. Washing blowing outside on the washing line is a wonderful sight. And they're good for using to clip food bags closed in the fridge.

[gregj1763]

Yes indeed. You can still buy wooden pegs just like those pictured here in Australia

So totally Oz Barry, I reckon we could probably come up with a photo of a Hills Hoist between us if we tried, just to show the rest of the world how to dry clothes.

[davidedric]

Used to do, but living in a place where we get rain on 256 days a year (had to look that up - just knew it is a lot!), it's a bit hit and miss. Got lazy and use a drier I'm afraid (anyway, my sense of smell isn't what it was )