The sprung wooden clothes peg is an amazing feat of engineering: a solid improvement over its predecessor (the dolly peg), extremely practical, industrial mass production capable, sustainable, biodegradable, UV-stable, with a useful life measured in decades.
Almost all those advantages go out the window if we make the damn things out of plastic.
@xahteiwi I'm certainly finding the ones I bought a few years ago are losing spring integrity and as such keep falling apart; dunno if I just bought a batch with cheap springs. I do prefer them to their plastic counterparts though.
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