closet dryer

[PrincessPerky]

I have to say nothing makes you feel like a closet frugal person like hanging your laundry in the closet!

I started drying my stuff in there, I have flung lots of clothes and stuff out of my closet over the past 6 months and there is room. I discovered that most of our stuff takes about 24hours to dry in my closet and a little more in the kids closet, it is way easier than braving the cold, or hunting up the weather for the day, or trying to cram it in my guest bathroom.

I just take the basket in my room and hang stuff on hangers and put them on the cradle while I sort. Then I put my DDs in her closet and my DS's in his. My DH and my stuff goes in our closet. I did find that jeans take 3 days to dry that way, so those are going into the dryer,and there is still not enough room for towels or sheets, just one load of darks lights or whites. As long as I keep up dong it every day I should be able to cut out 4 dryer loads a week.

Makes it alot easier to put the laundry away too, one of my main failings as a housewife, I hate putting laundry away. My mountain of clean clothes is not on my couch, cause when I hang it up it is already mostly away! I just have to take socks and such back off the hangers and put them in drawers.

I have also stopped folding unmentionables, they never stay folded anyway, and stopped sorting socks. each of us has only one kind of socks anyway. Except DH he has black and white, the black goes in the top drawer, and the white ones go with mine. So easy, he did a bit of a double take when he looked at a pile of socks instead of a bunch of folded pairs, but it only took him a second to mate some up and a lot less time than it would have to hunt them out of the basket!

[2moretrees]

I have a small extra room where I dry my clothes. This room works well because there is a heating vent in it and it is small enough that it warms up fast. I close the doors to it and the clothes dry within a few hours at most. I can't shut off the vent in that room since there is a heating sensor in it so I have adapted it for this purpose

[amomof4]

When the second story to my house was built, they used a metal beam for support. It has a lip on it, so we just put the clothes on hangers & hang on this beam. Since it's close to the wood stove, the clothes are dried in a few hours, unless they're blue jeans.