Comments on: Works For Me: My New “Dryer”

By: sherrie malik

sherrie malik — Sun, 25 May 2008 00:50:27 +0000

I have always hung my laundry outside to dry. I liked being out side and I liked hanging my laundry. There is not any thing to compare to line dried sheets. In the winter months I used the basement to dry in. Now that I am a senior and living in a 7 story apt. building I do not have a place to hang laundry outside. What works for me is that I use hangers regular and the kind that have clips at each end (stores use them to hang up pants) and I have collected many and they do a great job. I hang them on the shower curtain rod in the bath room. My sheets I drape over my ironing board (set up like it would be if I was going to iron something). Even if I do not hang laundry up until evening they are always dry in the morning. All of my blouses and tops go directly into the closet as they are already hung up. Sherrie Malik

By: Sandy Westermann

Sandy Westermann — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:18:52 +0000

Hi there! I have 4 kids and line dry, outside in the summer and on sunny windy winter days, and inside on a rack I scored on freecycle by my woodstove on cold and cloudy days. Our yard is small so we use one of those umbrella type lines, that I salvaged, made some minor repairs to and restrung.

By: Jeana

Jeana — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:31:09 +0000

Do you have a problem with it leaving lines through the middle of your clothes, or do they come out?

By: Green Tip of the Week #9: Drying laundry - don't overdo it | Crunchy Domestic Goddess

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:13:28 +0000

[...] using a dryer is to air-dry your laundry – something I haven’t jumped on board with just yet. The Natural Mommy has a great post about hanging drying racks right in your laundry area. I might have to see if the [...]

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:18:38 +0000

I love how you have hung the drying racks on the wall! GREAT Idea. Plus over a heating vent is AWESOME! Good thinking.

My dryer has been broken for some time, I am also NOT allowed to hang my clothes outside…. it is against the HOA rules =-( So I made a drying system in my master bathroom.

Here is a tiny picture of it =-)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v477/danalee/1211071410.jpg

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:24:17 +0000

Thanks for sharing that! My grandmother had something like that and I just assumed they no longer made these anymore. I want to get one to hang in my shower. In a city apartment there is so little space and the dryers cost $1.25 a load!

By: Allison

Allison — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:50:21 +0000

We don’t have a dryer either. My husband needed to cut a hole through the siding to vent and never did. I’ve been hanging clothes on plastic hangers and hanging to dry. I do have one of those dryer racks and need to have him screw it to the wall.

The socks and small items are what drives me nuts.

I do like have a smaller utility bill and being somewhat green.

By: Crunchy Domestic Goddess

Crunchy Domestic Goddess — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:05:45 +0000

those are awesome! nice job.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:14:15 +0000

What a great idea! I’ve been meaning to ask what you do about drying your clothes and all those diapers in the winter (we deal with lots of rain, but not below freezing weather!).

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:57:44 +0000

I have a dryer, but rarely use it in the summer. I use the line as much as possible in the winter (I’m in WV) but those racks are great. Trying to think wear they might fit here. . .