Drying hand washed clothes

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My washing machine has broke and I cannot get a replacement for at least a week. I'm able to wash the clothes by hand but have no idea how to spin them.

Does anyone have any tips on how I could spin my hand washed clothes?

Hmm I don’t know how you could spin them but I have had success with laying out a clean towel, putting the item to dry on top and rolling the towel and wet thing tightly. Then when you unroll it a lot of the moisture is gone. If you’ve got loads of things to dry though I don’t think it’ll be the answer!

Well, it depends on size of pieces of washing. If small, you could put them into a pillowcase and spin around your head (outside obviously). You could lay items on a towel, and roll up, before twisting to wring out water. 'Corse, will then have a wet towel to dry!! I am finding items are drying on an airer, but to be fair they have been wrung out already

I think you’ll just need to wring them out.

Lay a couple of items on a sheet and roll it up into a sausage then get someone to hold each end and twist it hard - you can get a surprising amount of water out, it might be a good idea to do it outside though!

Do you have a launderette near you? I thought they didn't really exist anymore until I was in the same position as you but it turns out I have 2 within a 2 mile radius- was brilliant- could wash/dry in massive machines really quickly.

Wouldn't a friend help you out and spin it for you?

As a student I remember one of my fellow student housemates was too tight to use a launderette and used to wring out handwashed clothes by putting them around the bath tap and then twisting them (in front of the tap) IYSWIM.
As you twisted it tighter the water was wrung out

Launderettes have spinners in - bigger versions of the sort you get at the gym to spin your cossie out.

To be honest though, I'd just use the launderette if it's only going to be a week until you get your new machine - depending on how much washing you have, you'll probably only need to do 1 or 2 washes.

I had one of those friends - she used to wash her jeans in the communal bath in halls and then leave them there to dry, which took about 3 days and pissed everyone else off massively.

@NormalForNuneaton My mum used to do that with sheets in the 60s! Ah! Memories

When we’ve been doing up a house and had no kitchen, I used the salad spinner to spin out socks and other small clothes. It works.

Thanks all, I've tried the towel idea and it worked well. May try the salad spinner too, that sounds interesting.