I've just cried over the fucking laundry

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It's rained all week. On top of that, I can't put my washing out during the week because I have to leave at stupid o'clock for my work commute. Got up today to see blazing sunshine. Checked weather app, no rain scheduled. Thank god! Put two loads of washing out and left for the day. Come home to find it had rained, washing soaked. Took it in. Sun came back out. Put it back out. Rained an hour later. Washing soaked once more. No way of drying it indoors without putting the heating on and it's bloody 18 degrees today.

All my work stuff for next week is soaking. And now I'm crying because I'm so sick of this constant battle with the washing. I'm close to just taking the whole lot to the fucking laundrette.

Anyone else have this much trouble with the washing or am I just crap at life? Because I feel crap at life.

Can't you hang it on an airer and open some windows and doors? Or leave it out overnight? Don't let washing spoil your weekend lovely

Can you not get an indoor clothes hanger or one of those heated ones from Lakeland? I similar issues so I feel your pain.

I would leave it out overnight but it keeps raining through the night. Every time I check the weather app it says it'll rain at like 1am - 4am and I just don't see the point. I do have one drying rack in the house but it can only take a few things. Maybe I should buy another one.

I'll look into the heated Lakeland one! Never heard of that before

You need to get something indoors.

If you have any space at all, a utility room, a spare room..... even a high landing over a stairs, get a pulleymaid. Clothes are bone dry in 24 hours.

Other than that a heated airer (if you tent the thing in a double sheet apparently it dries even faster)

I wish I had spare rooms or utility room. My house is tiny. I would love one of those. I'll bear it in mind though. I appreciate the suggestions.

You can't leave it out overnight - it will get darked on.

The launderette is fucking brilliant.

Four loads of washing dry in about twenty minutes, if you can bag two dryers. And you can just READ A BOOK. Honestly, it's one of my favourite things. :)

Hang clothes in doors and leave the window open. If it is safe of course. Sometimes if I have to wash clothes in the evening I will transfer the clothes airer to the bathroom and the window can be open all night. Ventilation is important for drying clothes, instead of turning heating on. If you need clothes for tomorrow, then iron them while wet and then hang them.

I have three airers. Two normal ones, so if clothes are hung spaced out they dry quicker, which is what I did for years. But I finally invested in a heated airer from Lakeland last year, got the large model as we have a family of washing to dry, think it was called the deluxe heated airer and bought it with a cover.

It is great! I don’t even need to spread clothes out, so an item can hang on one bar (as in, I don’t feel the need to space out over two bars). I do a full load of mixed clothes of mine, DH and the DCs (9kg machine) and can fit everything on. I like to put it to dry early evening and leave on overnight, and it’s mostly if not all dry by morning. Heaviest items at the top as the heat rises (eg sweaters, joggers).

I hang dresses, skirts and shirts however on hangers on a rail (or you can get quite compact hanging rails to go over the backs of doors or unfold from the wall), I’ve found these items always dry quite quickly and easily this way.

Hardest is linens, I try to keep in mind drying space when I put a wash on, heavy items on the heated airer, and we have stairs so I hang sheets (as they’re always thin) over the banisters and they dry fairly quickly. Used to hang over doors when we were in a flat.

Heated Aires’s are great but Lakeland are expensive. I got 1 for £30 from Lidl a few years ago and it’s great. Try Amazon or `Argos.

Seriously, though a lot of MNetters swear by the heated airers from Lakeland or a normal dryer with a dehumidifier next to it.

You don't necessarily need to make things warm to be dry - you just need to remove the moisture, hence your best bet may be 2 line airers and a dehumidifier.

no launderette within 20 miles here and no dryer. I have the same issue some weeks but have taken to smaller loads sometimes. I do however have an Everhot Aga type cooker and its a godsend to dry a few bits of stuff over night.

I would invest in a small dryer or heated airer for occasional use

But an extra airer and a dehumidifier. It works wonders for quick drying indoors.

I used to live in a one bedroom flat, front room was south facing so would put washing on a uterus by front room window and in summer it would be dry by the time I got it back ... winter I had to do laundrette visits for towels. I now have a heated Airer and love it ... it folds away nicely too honestly look into x x

Take it to the launderette. I feel your pain. We do not have a dryer and the airer takes up a lot of room, so it’s a matter of anxiety if I can get work and school stuff dries over the weekend. Do you look at the Met office forecast? I find this one is the best.
Planning on a heated airer for overnight in the kitchen as soon as finances allow....

I've never heated of putting washing on a uterus....

My tummy is quite warm but I'm not sure I could dry a load of washing overnight...

In a small house, install a retractable line over the bath - the one we had was 4 lines and when not in use was just a wall mounted box one end and hooks the other. Now we have 3 airers and a tumble dryer I admit to have given up on the line this year

Our tumble dryer broke 4 weeks ago and I've been trying to cope without. I cracked on Wednesday when we all ran out of clothes and ordered a new one. It came this morning and six loads later we are nearly straight and I've been able to wash all the sheets. Also no space for airers here but lucky to have space for tumble dryer. Go to the laundrette it's not worth the misery, but I feel your pain.

I just put it on the airer and leave it in the corner of the room its usually dry within a couple of days as long as you have a high spin on washing machine x

so would put washing on a uterus by front room window
I hope you closed the curtains first!

Lakeland heated dryer is the answer! It's most definitely worth it with the logistics you have happening!

I rarely hang washing out , whatever can tumble is tumbled and anything else gets hung on hangars at the French doors , it’s always dry within 24 hours give or take .

Heated Airers are amazing. I love mine and it definitely helps with drying times.
Also an extra spin at the end of a wash can get loads more water out.

With the heated airer, can you put it up and leave it on in the kitchen overnight, and then will the washing be dry in the morning?

@Newmumma83 Do your neighbours enjoy the view of your uterus?