slo’s THURSDAY 8/10 poll - Laundry Drying Rack

[disneychrista]

I have a retractable clothes line in my laundry room. I am amazed at how many of my tops say to line dry.

 

[AppleDumpling]

I'm surprised that they don't make them with wi-fi so they can text you updates on your clothes drying process!*

This is fairly common now in college dorms and apartments. They have laundry apps that let you check how many washing machines and dryers are in use or open and how much time is left on each. It will send a text when one becomes available or your load is done.

 

[SandyinMonterey]

Yes. I have a laundry rack. I use it all the time. I will always have one.

 

[design_mom]

I don’t own one. I look for “machine wash, tumble dry” before I buy something, so I dry most things in the dryer.

If there’s something that really can’t be dried I usually lay it flat on the kitchen island, or the top of the washing machine, or I hand it on a clothesline stung in our basement.

 

[leebee]

All through middle school, high school, and college, DD was in the dance studio 4 hours a day, 7 days a week. That's LOTS of tights and leotards that don't like being machine dried, so at times we had 3 racks. It was weird when she went to college, and suddenly there were no more drying racks in the hallway! We still have a rack that we use pretty regularly, as some of my dresses are "air dry only."

 

[lovesmurfs]

Timely. I just bought one. I needed a towel rack for my in-laws' recent visit, and it was the only one I could get same-day from our hardware store. So I have one, but don't use it.

I think for future visits, I'll plan ahead and buy one from Amazon. The towel rack was just more challenging (and ugly) than a towel rack would've been.

 

[lanejudy]

I have 3 folding racks (different sizes) plus 4 outside clotheslines. I prefer to air dry a lot of my clothes. Growing up we never had a drier and mom hung everything year-round (6 in the family!). LOL -- hanging jeans outside in the middle of winter usually froze them to the point they stood by themselves! So I guess I was just used to doing it that way.

 

[QueenIsabella]

I have a large drying rack, some hanging hooks in my laundry room, an outside clothesline, and I've been working on getting an inside clothesline.

While I use the dryer for 90% of stuff, I use the other things for:

delicates (lingerie and dance clothes)
cleaning rags/towels (if they're washed with regular stuff--you're not supposed to use dryer sheets, they coat them and make them less absorbent). I'll do a regular load of towels and use dryer balls if I have a full load of them.
sweaters
small, random things, like a sock that didn't dry because it was balled up
one-offs, like a single item or two

I don't dry outside typically--the weather here is too unpredictable. It can be sunny one minute, then monsooning 5 minutes later. However, the dryer has died on me a time or three, then I go to outside drying.

I want an inside clothesline for long-term power outages. We're in hurricane country, it happens. DH can't decide if he wants it in the sunroom or the dance room, so here I sit.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Nope. My mom was fussy and made us use one but I got out of the habit when living in an apartment. Never used one since.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

We have 3 and they get a lot of use, but most loads of laundry go into the dryer. We do a lot of exercise activities and generate lots of sweaty workout clothes. 2 of the drying racks are on the porch, and sweaty stuff goes there to dry rather than throw damp stinky stuff into a basket to get even more smelly. We also hang damp towels from the pool or beach onto them to dry out. One drying rack is in our room and holds delicates that I don't want to dry in the dryer, or when a load has come out of the dryer slightly damp and a few things need time to dry a bit further. If I had a clothes line, I think I would use that, but in general our laundry loads are too big to be able to dry them on drying racks - even with having 3 of them. Maybe when the kids are out of the house that will work.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Nope. If it can't go in the dryer, I don't buy it.

 

[CynBeth]

Nope. Almost everything I own is machine wash-and-dry. What’s not either goes to the dry cleaner or I just lay it flat to dry in the spare room.

Same here.

 

[tvguy]

When doing laundry…..do you use a laundry drying rack?
If yes….how often do you use it?
(multiple choice)



For Me…..Yes, I use it all the time. I air dry everything besides underwear & socks and my pajamas. Everything else only goes in the dryer about 20 minutes and then gets hung up to dry and/or put on the drying rack. My clothes seem to last forever and I believe it’s because I don’t over dry items. My system helps items to not be wrinkled (some items are unavoidable for wrinkles), fade and iron ons peeling off. IMO…I gotta good laundry system

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Mrs. TVGUY uses one every week for her underwear. Bras are EXPENSIVE and she wants them to last as long as possible, and using the drying rack seems to help.

 

[fla4fun]

Our HOA won’t allow a clothesline that is visible from the street and doesn’t allow tall fences either. So I use my rack every time I do laundry. I have a large bathtub and can set it up in there so I don’t have to worry about dripping.

 

[TCRAIG]

I have 2 that I use for all my ‘good’ clothes…anything that I don’t want to shrink or pill…

 

[Imzadi]

Once in awhile I hang things over the tub on the shower curtain rod.

This is my system. I also have a clothes line parallel to the shower curtain rod directly over the tub. I use them all the time. I wear mostly natural fibers. They would fade & shrink and get all worn looking way too fast if I threw them in the dryer.

That actually happened a few times where a piece of clothing I always lined dry got accidentally tossed into the dryer. The change of faded color and extra surface fuzziness from duplicates that were the same age, wear, and generally washed and air dried together, was remarkable. It looked like those commercials where they show 2 of the same shirt but one was washed with a different detergent or something. And one was all faded & worn looking. Except with mine, being put in the dryer with medium heat was the difference. So, I hang everything I care about. Already old faded T-shirts & socks get tossed in the dryer.

 

[mikehn]

I use a drying rack for the exact reasons you stated. A lot of these mens summer performance clothing are made of paper thin polyester which basically disintegrates in the washer and dryer. I hand wash them and dry them on the rack. They are dry in a few hours.

 

[Sacahara]

Sooo....I've always grown up with a dryer and I had no idea what a laundry drying rack was (I knew what a clothes line was but not that)....thank you for including a pic so I didn't have to google it lol.

 

[MommaKetch]

Kind of, so I answered “other.” I have a mess of a system, mostly using hangers hung on over-the-door rods, shelves, and even door frames. My favorite drying rack is the upstairs banister rail.

 

[jimmymc]

The only things I air dry are on the hanger.