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.

*I do however have an Everhot Aga type cooker and its a godsend to dry a few bits of stuff over night.

My mum as an Aga, bit bloody warm in this weather, but she dries everything on the lids/over the rail and the clothes virtually iron themselves.

I thought I didn't have room for a dryer, but I chucked a work surface over the washing machine with supports underneath and slung in a condenser dryer. No need for an outlet, bloody marvellous!

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We have this with some hangers with clips on for the smaller then point our dehumidifier at it overnight in the kitchen. Will dry stuff within normally 12-15hours depending on the amount I wash and we have a large kitchen. Small rooms are better for it. Also get an unlimited supply of can't remember the name but it's great for my iron not getting caulked up.

A mini pulley in the wasted space above the stairs is the answer. It's a life saver. We also have a heated airer with a cover

would put washing on a uterus by front room window

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I put two bars across the top of the airing cupboard where my hot water storage tank is stored and I put clothes on hangers and let them dry overnight in there. I sometimes put the heating on in there if weather is cold and wet but if warm the clothes dry just because of the heat from the pipes.
Do you have an airing cupboard where you can do similar?

Never mind all this messing about with wet washing festooning your house over racks and pulleys, just get a tumble dryer.

I am surprised that PigletJohn has not been on here yet to warn of the dangers of mould and damp from drying washing indoors.

Effectively when you dry laundry in the house, the damp is just soaked up by the walls unless you have proper ventilation.

I haven’t seen PJ in a long time. Is he still on MN?

He is right about the moisture. Dehumidifier very useful to counteract that.

Tumble dryer in the manky garage. Appreciate I am lucky to have that space but I can’t imagine coping without it especially in winter which let’s face it is 8 months of the year.
Used to live in a tiny cottage and had a pulley dryer up above the stair case it was great but there was only 2 of us couldn’t have coped with family size laundry.
Hope you can sort something it’s shit being beaten down by washing drudgery

Tumble dryer. Fuck all this heated airer shit

Or go to the laundrette. Take gin

Sounds like a tumble dryer is the best solution or a really good airer.
I hang my washing outside when I can but otherwise the clothes get hung on hangers on the bathroom curtain rail. I have a front and back door too so hide my washing on a tall and compact able airer in the vestibule by the front door. It gets the sun and with being in a tight space I tell myself it gets optimal drying there and it is worth not using my front door for.

I dont have high enough ceilings for a pulley or else I'd have one of those too .

What is the point of not using tumble dryers because they use energy so instead, hanging damp washing all over your house so that you have to use dehumidifiers, which presumably also use energy?

Dehumidifiers use a lot less energy than tumble dryers. When I was looking into before I brought it I remember right you would have to be running the dehumidifier for 48 hours to use the same energy as one tumble dryer cycle.

I have a couple of indoor clothes airers and if I putterly the washing on them at night they ate dry by morning. I never dry laundry outside.
If you are in a hurry you can buy heated airers from Lake land plastics

We swapped our washing machine for a washer dryer. Didn't have room for 2-only use the dryer function when desperate but it has a 60 minute wash and dry setting which is brilliant for small loads of lightly soiled things.
We also have 2 normal clothes airers and with underfloor heating they work brilliantly.

My heated airer has changed my life, definitely look into one. We have a dehumidifier anyway as we have a damp house so the two together works brilliantly.

Get a tumble dryer. I couldn’t be without mine.

I work long hours and have your frustrations. Lakeland heated airer along with my following combination. Put wash on delay timer so it finishes when you have breakfast, fast spin whilst having breakfast then onto heated airer which goes by French windows and I leave the trickle vents open. Off to work washing is dry when I get home. No dehumidifier need, no condensation or mould either.

In your position OP is take all the washing you can gather to the launderette and get them to do a service wash. You will collect bags of warm and expertly folded washing.

The Lakeland heated air era are quite good but clothes still take a good few hours to dry.

Why hasn't someone invented some sort of awning or garden tent where you can have cover over your washing line which still let's air blow through but protects from rain?

Dehumidifier - esp if your place is small you don't want to create mold or condensation. If space is limited hang clothes in your doorways with a dehumidifier on and it's dry in 24 hrs. Added bonus some dehumidifiers also purify the air, less dust less cleaning

It's ok to cry over washing. Sometimes even they most basic of tasks can do that because life isn't always easy.

Heated airer! Couldnt live without ours, we had a lot of rain recently but having the airer meant i could still get all the washing dried as normal.When i do the bedding i just use the main part for the pillow covers and chuck the duvet covers over the top instead of the cover. I have the lakeland deluxe with a cover, had it for about 4 years now and still going strong so worth the cost, however John Lewis do one which seems a lot sturdier so i think when ours needs replacing we will probably buy that one.
As someone mentioned above, i always do a separate 1400 spin on the washing machine once the cycle has finished as this takes a lot of excess water out and helps it dry quicker.

Agree with PP about going to the launderette! We don't have access to our washer or drier right now as we're having an extension/new kitchen, so we have to use the launderette, and I actually really enjoy it (sounds weird, I know ). As long as you can get a machine/drier, which I usually can during the week, it's great to just sit and read a book. And it's all so quick compared with domestic appliances.

Sorry you've been so overwhelmed

Hello again! Hang it on the uterus gave me a good laugh 

Dehumidifier is a great idea - thanks all! I've never even thought about that!

@Nextphonewontbesamsung Yes I live on my own - thanks for being judgemental :))) I'm on antidepressants so sometimes I cry over stupid shit, that's not the issue here

Oh and yes, I do have a tumble drier but it's from the 80s and it's honestly crap so I only use it for light stuff like underwear. I should probably get a new one tbh.

Thanks again! And glad to see everyone is struggling in this crap weather.