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Long before technology sent socks to spin-dry purgatory, people were more resourceful, creating tools to efficiently accomplish even the most tedious household chores .
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One such tool is this wooden peg, which over the years has evolved into a two-part peg for securing items to a line. This is a significant improvement over the previous design, which sent socks and other clothing flying in the wind, “a serious nuisance for washerwomen.”
Read on to learn more about this wooden tool!
Recently, a netizen found some small wooden dowels with two legs and took to social media to ask for help identifying the objects.
The Facebook post attracted a generation of nostalgic baby boomers, who responded: “Old-fashioned clothespins. [We used them to hang clean and wet clothes outside on the clothesline to dry in the sun and fresh air!]
A wooden clothespin, also known as a clothes peg, is a traditional household tool used to hang wet laundry on a clothesline to dry. Today, clothespins are usually made of two pieces of wood joined by a hinge at one end, with a spring mechanism providing the necessary tension to hold the garment.
Antiquity
The history of wooden clothespins dates back to ancient times when people used various methods to secure their laundry while it dried.
