The versatile spring-loaded clothespin doesn’t get enough media attention. To rectify the situation, today’s top ten list pays tribute to the tiny wooden wonder.
10. Let’s start with the obvious answer: hang clothes on an outdoor line. And the benefits of the obvious use: money saved on the electric bill, fresh smelling sheets, and a healthy tan.
9. In a pinch (no pun intended) clothespins and a wire hanger make excellent skirt and trouser hangers.
8. Readers of Little Women know that clothespins can be used to reshape one’s nose. However the process tends to be painful. Don’t ask how I know this.
7. Two or three clothespins can be used to fasten shut a half-eaten bag of chips.
6. They double as clamps on small objects being glued together.
5. Clothespins are an essential component of refrigerator magnet clip projects made by kids at school, Scouts, Sunday school, and the like.
4. Ditto for Christmas tree ornaments.
3. They are effective pinching weapons in sibling wars Don’t ask how I know this, either.
2. Barbie and Ken place their trust in clothespins that fasten them to a zipline.
1. Four clothespins in the hands of the man of steel morph into a handy-dandy cell phone stand when using the speaker phone feature. It really, really works!
What’s missing from the list? Leave a comment of uses you’ve found for the lowly spring-loaded clothespin.
