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Article: Clothes peg sales soar as dryers take tumble
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 13, 2007
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THEY were once a common sight in British gardens
billowing sheets drying in the breeze on laundry day.
But over the past 30 years the availability of ever cheaper
tumble dryers has consigned washing lines to childhood memories.
However, new figures suggest that "organic" clothes drying may be
making a dramatic comeback because of global warming.
Asda says it has seen a massive leap in sales of clothes pegs and
washing lines this year.
Over the past four months alone it has sold 1.2 million pegs, up
1,400 per cent on last year.
It is thought to be the first time that peg sales have increased
significantly in almost half a century.
The supermarket chain puts the peg boom down to ...