looking for a pattern...

Now, there's a use for them!

Higs, Kather> decorate the plastic ones with small pom poms and wiggly eye ,use for > paper clips.

When I was a child, the kind with a knob and two legs was the only kind there was in the US.

The kind with the spring we called snippersnappers but used the general term "clothespin" for both kinds. Mother preferred snippersnappers, so we tended to have those at home. We were pretty familiar with them as hanging up the clothes and taking down the clothes was a chore that often went to my sister and I. Judy Olwyn Mary wrote: They also were not the kind with two separate

All I can remember from my childhood would be the spring ones. I remember reading about people doing crafts with clothespins, and wondering how on earth they could make faces on the top.

Higs, Katherine

Ohhhh I remember those from the time we lived in Manchester ... nice little pegs and rather fun to play with ,,,, [my kids not me]

We have them from 2 `legs ` of plastic + the middle spring , mirjam

they are still sold here, let me know if you want some....LOL

Els

I still used the wooden ones. When we sailed to the Bay of Quinte (lake Ontario) years ago, for our summer holidays, We had stopped for an ice cream while waiting for a bridge to open while going through the Murray canal. It was one of those quainte rural stores that carry everything from an axe to indeed clothespegs They had the most wonderful clothespegs, I bought three packs. I am still using these today. I have never seen them again. They have a special kind of spring, so that the legs never come apart (ok I know I am going to get some comment about this, or a giggle)

Els

Of Course they don`t make them anymore ,,, if they did the manufactureres won`t have any work ,,,, :>:>:>:>

mirjam

LOL Not saying a word!

Higs, Katherine

Thanks Els;))