Awesome all my searches said freeze or dehydrate which I didn't want to do

As long as they were not overly ripe when picked, I've had them last easily a month in the refrigerator. I prefer not to leave them that long, so I tend to chop or slice up the ones I'm going to use for jelly and then freeze them if I can't make jelly right away, but you could hold them in the fridge for quite a way. Seven to ten days should be fine. Just remember when you can them, that the same rules apply when using refrigerated peppers for canning as when using freshly harvested peppers---so any that are too soft or overly ripe should not be used for canning.

I've done it the way George does it some years, but this year I just picked all the peppers that were ready and am canning them today and tomorrow before I start my Thanksgiving cooking. One year, long long ago, my uncle told me he was bringing me his excess peppers at Christmas. He showed up with plants he'll pulled up by the roots before he left his place to come to my parents' house. That was my first exposure to harvesting peppers from a plant hanging upside down in the garage. I was astonished at how long they lasted, and some years since then, I've done the same thing with tomato plants.

Yes, my father used to hang tomato plants, upside down, in the garage and we would "pick" tomatoes until after Christmas.

I almost always hang my pepper plants in a shed which hovers around 35 F. during the coldest part of the winter. It works, though it's messy. The thing to remember, is to get your seed from peppers which are red when you first cut the plants. Green peppers will often turn red while hanging. But they won't produce the best quality seed.

So, there's no soil? The plants are just pulled right out of the ground? What do you hang them from? A clothesline, maybe?

Hang them from anything you have....rafters, a nail on a wall, the edge of a shelving unit.....if you don't have a ready-made place to hang them, then create one. Something as simple as two nails in a wall (preferably nailed into studs) with a heavy wire tied between them can support a row of plants hanging upside down. The fruit won't enlarge but most all of it will color up and will be edible, though as George noted, as time passes, the fruit does hit a certain point where it begins to dehydrate and wrinkle and, eventually, spoil. You can continue getting usable peppers and cherry tomatoes for 4-8 weeks at least after the plants are pulled up by the roots as long as the plants stay above freezing.

I've hung them indoors in the pantry under the staircase, in the unheated un-insulated garden shed, in the in-ground tornado shelter (which worked the best) and in the unheated but well-insulated garage.

I guess I'll be pulling up plants this weekend! Thanks!

If you have pruners, it's easiest to simply cut them off at the ground and leave the roots behind.