September 8th, 2006 - Drying laundry
For reasons I won’t go into here, we don’t hang laundry outside to dry and always use our electric dryer. A few months ago, another blog talked about an indoor drying rack she had that could hold an entire load of laundry. I’m a bit skeptical about drying laundry indoors in the summer due to the humidity it would add to the air but filed the idea away for winter time. I don’t have the rack she has, but I do have a drying rack intended for sweaters and such. So yesterday morning, I decided to try it out. I was surprised that by evening, the clothes were dry! It held a bit less than half a load of laundry (most of the load was sheets which couldn’t be put on the rack anyway). I’m definitely looking forward to using this until summer hits again as we can always use more humidity in the winter time inside. We have a whole-house humidifier on our furnace and even that isn’t enough.
I honestly wouldn’t have guessed that the clothes would dry that quickly, especially when so close together.
The company she bought the rack from is currently not selling them. It sounds like they are selling their company to someone else but no details are provided yet. Their rack has some other advantages over my rack than just fitting more on it: It’s smaller when folded, folds more easily, and has narrower bars/lines so that clothespins work better. Mine is a large metal rack; some of my pins are too small for it. I have to use twist ties to keep it upright because otherwise someone could knock into it and cause it to crumple to the floor (something I have a tendency to do when nothing is on it at all!). It takes up more space when folded and is rather awkward to hang up (the only place I can find for it is on the wall in a closet area, and I’m always worried I’ll bump it and knock it down).