What uses do you make of a clothes pin?

My mailbox is the kind that attaches to the side of the house. When I have a letter for the postman to pick up, I clothespin it to the mailbox (not often).
 

I use them for clothes also! I have folding racks I put on my apartment patio. No one can see my laundry drying in the summer.
 
"I hang clothes on the line with 'em."

Thank you!

I opened this thread because I didn't know what a clothes pin was; now I do.;

We call 'em clothes pegs (dolly pegs in some dialects).

Used to behandy for keeping the choke (strangler) applied in the days of cars with carburettors!
 
I used the old flat head wooden pins as enemy soldiers, or Indians, and shot them with my pellet gun as a kid. Just like John Wayne did in the movies...:cool:
 
Ralphy1 said:
I used the old flat head wooden pins as enemy soldiers, or Indians, and shot them with my pellet gun as a kid. Just like John Wayne did in the movies...:cool:
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John Wayne shot clothes pins?!

We used to make those wooden ones into dolls using pipe cleaners for arms and crayons for faces, etc.
 
I used them for a bag of chips when I was purchasing them. Now, I use them for my cat's bag of food. I just roll the bag down and fasten it up with clothes pins. Works just as good or better than the store bought clips.
 
We used to use them years ago in the closet to clip skirts onto hangers. I don't have any clothes pegs anymore now tho, except for a couple of old fashioned ones I'm saving for some reason. The potato chip bag idea is good, as I can never find a binder clip when I need one.
 
Laurie said:
"I hang clothes on the line with 'em."

Thank you!

I opened this thread because I didn't know what a clothes pin was; now I do.;

We call 'em clothes pegs (dolly pegs in some dialects).

Used to behandy for keeping the choke (strangler) applied in the days of cars with carburettors!
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Thanks for the info. Now I know what they are called in the UK. Also, I didn't know the choke was called a 'strangler'.
 
http://bottomlinepersonal.com/household-magic/clothespin-trick-to-calm-you-down/

If you’re feeling anxious and need to relax, and you have some clothespins lying around (the kind that pinch real tight), here’s what to do: Grab five clothespins, and clip one to the tip of each finger of your left hand, right at the start of the fingernails. Keep them there for seven minutes. Then put those clothespins on the fingers of your right hand for another seven minutes. Pressure exerted on these nerve endings is known to relax the entire nervous system.
Do this clothespin bit first thing in the morning if you wake up feeling tense and before, during or right after any particularly nerve-racking situation (job interview…difficult relatives coming…skydiving).
 
RadishRose said:
http://bottomlinepersonal.com/household-magic/clothespin-trick-to-calm-you-down/

If you’re feeling anxious and need to relax, and you have some clothespins lying around (the kind that pinch real tight), here’s what to do: Grab five clothespins, and clip one to the tip of each finger of your left hand, right at the start of the fingernails. Keep them there for seven minutes. Then put those clothespins on the fingers of your right hand for another seven minutes. Pressure exerted on these nerve endings is known to relax the entire nervous system.
Do this clothespin bit first thing in the morning if you wake up feeling tense and before, during or right after any particularly nerve-racking situation (job interview…difficult relatives coming…skydiving).
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RadishRose, have you tried this yourself? Did it work for you? Didn't it hurt? :hurt:
 
Aside from hanging washing on my clothesline, I use a wooden clothespin on either side of the pulley (closest to the house) after I'm done hanging the washing, that way when a gust of wind comes along and tugs and pulls at the washing on the line, the action of the washing moving doesn't drag an item up and into the pulley and blacken it, so a wooden clothespin clipped on each side of the clothesline beside the pulley eliminates any chances of that happening.
 

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