Line drying your clean clothes and bedding is not only energy-efficient but also helps fabrics last longer because it dries more gently than the heated tumbling of a clothes dryer. You only need a few simple supplies - a clothes line and pegs - and the air will do the rest. However, when line drying your laundry it turns out that most of us have been using the pegs wrong and getting unnecessary creases in the process.

Two videos on TikTok have surfaced, one from user @jpee074 and another from @xox_christinaaaa, sharing how we should really be hanging out our clothes to dry, which has left many people shocked. They show that instead of folding clothing items over the line and then pegging them, we should actually be placing the peg over the line and hanging the clothes below.

@jpee074 wrote: "I was today years old when I found out I had been pegging wrong all these years. The little holes are for the line."

As Christina mentions in her video, the pegs feature a clever little hole, enabling them to rest comfortably on the line, while the grip secures the items underneath.

She asked in the clip: "Has anyone else ever realised that this is the wrong way to hang up things on a clothesline and that clothes pegs actually have this little hole so you can actually hang your clothes on the line?"

One user wrote: "Gosh, I've been wiping down the clothesline for years to make sure it's clean before use. Now I never have to do that again!"

Although many individuals in both videos noted that in the UK, our washing lines face significantly more wind, which might clarify why some choose to stick with the traditional doubling-up technique.

One user said, "Yeah, so you don't get lines from the wire on your clothes, but in the UK the wind isn't having it."

Another commented: "Yeah, but it's called living in Britain, and Mother Nature might take your clothes for a spin."