Clothes Pegs Uses other than on the washing line
- Clip the bottom of a toothpaste tube with a peg and roll it up to avoid wastage.
- Nail or screw two pegs to your garden fence and then use them to hold open a plastic
rubbish bag when collecting leaves or other rubbish.
- Make angels or toy soldiers by decorating clothes pegs, use the pegs as legs.
- When gluing two objects together, use pegs as mini clamps.
- Make a rack for small tools by screwing several clothes pegs to a piece of wood.
Ours have holes in the arms to make this easier.
- Prevent the flex of your vacuum cleaner from retracting while in use by clipping
a peg to it once it’s the length you need.
- Keep packages of biscuits, snacks, cereals or seeds fresh by clipping open packages
with a peg.
- Use pegs to clip close open bags of food when putting them in the freezer.
- Hold a new hem line in place before you iron it.
- Useful in place of tacking stitches or regular pins when using a sewing machine.
- Hold paper together with one or more pegs. Unlike bulldog clips our pegs do not
rust or shatter; especially useful in warm humid environments such as hothouses
or swimming baths.
- Spare your fingers by using a peg to grip a nail when hammering it in hard-to-reach
places. Ours even resist most hammer blows!
- Screw a peg to the kitchen wall to hold recipes up.
- Clip pairs of shoes of boots together with a peg to save hunting after one of them.
- Supergluing a magnet to a peg gives a clip that sticks to any magnetic surface,
e.g. fridges and cooker hoods.
- Three pegs can make a mosquito coil holder.
- Bookmarks.
- Music score holder, especially useful outside on a windy day.
- Target holder for small bore pellet guns. The slugs bounce off our pegs.
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Attaching food to a parrot's cage
(click picture for larger image)
Janette Tibbett, North Wales
If you have other unusual uses please send them to us, include photographs if you
have any; and we will put them on the website and give you a credit.
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