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Home Dryer for the most part. I am thinking of starting to line dry now that we are getting some nice days but our patio is under construction. My home actually has the old metal post where the previous owner had her clothes line. Its just that my house seams to heat up fast. The good thing with that is I get 3-4 months of no gas bill!
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I'm very careful about our clothes...I buy nice things and I want them to stay that way! I only use hot water on linens/towels and those are the only items I dry as well. I do dry some of the kids tshirts and pj's, underwear and socks...but everything else I dry inside, in the basement on a clothesline or in my closet. I put them in the dryer for about 10 minutes and then hang them on the line (usually on hangers). They aren't crunchy...or wrinkled. It works out great. Sounds like a lot of work but I've been doing my laundry this way since college.
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I tend to mostly use the dryer and hang stuff around the house if it isn't suppose to be dried. I have terrible allergies and hanging my clothes outside seems to make things worse. I wish I had a laundry room so I cold hang everything.
Oregano, does hanging clothes really make the last longer?
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I line dry mostly everything in the summer. Since I'm home anyway, and it saves on the electric bill. The dryer is one of the biggest energy suckers in the home. But since I'm right on the edge of the plains, the wind sometimes blows stuff right off the line, even with umpteen clothes pins!
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I have six kids...I can't imagine hanging everything to dry!!! However, to answer for Oregano..I can say that YES, it DOES make them look nicer longer. One of my best friends (and the mother of my four year old's "bestest bestest friend") sells me all of her dd's clothes when she outgrows them. They are almost always like NEW..and she hangs clothes to dry. The only thing she uses her dryer for is sheets and towels. I know she has to cringe once in a while at how fast the clothes "tire out" when she passes them to me and they get machine dried!!
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Jeans, sheets and towels I dry in the dryer. Everything else is hung up to dry on drying racks in the laundry room.
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I dry everythig think. Some times I will let things toss around in the dry to get the wrinkles out, and than hang them, but not all the time. I think it makes clothes feel stiff if they dont dry in the dryer. I never thought that it might make clothes last longer if they were air dried. I might have to try it. I am always worried about bugs landing on the clothes when they are outside. I dont want to air dry a shirt and put it on to find a have a buddy in it. I have a big unfinished basement, but it smells muggy down there; probaby full of mold. I wouldnt want the clothes to smell weird.
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Originally Posted by araefinn
I dry everythig think. Some times I will let things toss around in the dry to get the wrinkles out, and than hang them, but not all the time. I think it makes clothes feel stiff if they dont dry in the dryer. I never thought that it might make clothes last longer if they were air dried. I might have to try it. I am always worried about bugs landing on the clothes when they are outside. I dont want to air dry a shirt and put it on to find a have a buddy in it. I have a big unfinished basement, but it smells muggy down there; probaby full of mold. I wouldnt want the clothes to smell weird.
When I hang outside I make sure to shake it real good, I have never seen a bug but better safe than sorry! On certain things I tumble in the dryer and it takes the stiffness right out.
I LOVE hanging out the sheets, I guess that crispness brings me back to my grandmas and she always hung them out
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Right now I dry everything. I am planning on getting a clothes line up really soon and hanging part of my wash since electricity around here is so high!! I hope it helps. I would never hang stuff around my house though.