- Socks and undies on the very inside lines (smaller areas), t-shirts and shorts in the middle, oversized items like towels and sheets on the outside – biggest line area. Left brain
- Running short of pegs – double peg one clothing to another – but not if the item is too thick. Left brain
- Don’t leave items on the line for too long – clothing becomes like cardboard – so timing and checking. Left brain
- Don’t backlog your washing to do all at once because you won’t have line space, plus your washing will smell. Planning. Left brain
- Peg all available pegs on the bottom of one’s T-shirt for pegging ease and if you really want to channel the perfectionist in you – colour code….maybe too much information ?. Right with a little left brain input
- Leaving pegs on the line – Pro – handy for pegging ease. Con – they become hard quickly, break easily and ugly to look at as their colour fades. Left brain and then shifted to right brain!
Plus, after being trained by ‘Mum/Manager’ on how to do the job and learning from my mistakes, I gained enormous pleasure from tweaking the processes of the job in becoming better and more efficient and making it more of my own. Again – Left brain!
If there were a career in clothes hanging, I would have been the ‘It Girl’ – BUT, instead, I discovered many other more ‘serious’ ways in which my talents could be channelled with meaning as well as responsibility. And luckily, my high-level skills acquired in hanging clothes on a Hills Hoist were transferable.
I may have been a tiny bit of a pleaser/nerd, but that isn’t relevant now! These attributes, as described above, are learnt traits. The Hills Hoist taught me how to think and use my brain.