Do you call it a clothes horse?

[faithfultoGeorgeMichael]

So I need a new thing to put over the bath to dry my clothes. I have 2 questions:

1. Do you call it a clothes horse? Is this weird?
2. Can you recommend one? Last one was wilko and 26 years old at this point 😂

Isn't it because in the summer you used to spread clothes on the hedge to dry?

This is a bougie clothes horse - a real Show specimen - perhaps Dressage? 😂

Ours is old and rickety so we call it the clothes donkey.

In Yorkshire, i would call the free standing one a clothes horse, the one that hangs below the ceiling, over the range and is on a pulley to lower and raise it is called a creel.

My mum used to have a heated cabinet with wooden rods to hang wet clothes on, the Flatley dryer which I assume was the maker's name.

That's the one I had. Drive me insane moving it all the time, not tall enough for so much stuff & generally just not big enough for a load if washing

@faithfultoGeorgeMichael to me, a wooden one is a clothes horse (as per the one I grew up with) but my plastic one is the airer. The one I bought is wide & strong so it's great for hoodies etc! The other one I have was abandoned here by my god daughter, is very light & has 'wings' (ends that lift up! Great for loads of light, small things.

y mum's old wooden one was the best for playing with though!!

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And Mr Tumnus the faun feared the following punishment from the White Witch:

”She’ll wave her wand over my beautiful cloven hooves and turn them into horrid solid hooves like a wretched horse’s.” And as she then turned him into stone, he could be objectified as a clothed horse!

It looks scared!!

Oh don't you HATE that.

ive trained myself to go & make the bed up when ive hung the washed set on the line, to avoid bed time bed making! Only took 40 years!! 🤣🤣

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It's OK - I've done it! I actually did the bottom sheet and pillows earlier, but left the duvet nonsense until it was cooler.
Fresh, clean bedding for me tonight (after I've collected the teenager from town.....).

Yes

I’m going to need a full report when you first use it! 😂 I’m away for the next week, so I’ll eagerly await an update until I can treat myself!

My mum called hers a clothes horse, it was a lethal wooden contraption that pulled upwards rather than the airers which open outwards.
i call mine airers.

To me:

• Clothes horse is a wooden one that stands on the floor.
• Airer is a plastic one that stands on the floor.
• Rack or maiden is a wooden one on pulleys from the ceiling.

Didn't really have an awareness of over-the-bath ones, but it's a similar shape to a saw horse, and it's got 4 legs, so perhaps that's where clothes horses started out.

I often use the method called the upstairs bannister...

@TheChosenTwo my mum had that one, Jesus Christ it could take your fingers off - nasty bastard!

😂😂

@EBearhug 😂I'll do a diary here for your consideration

We call our freestanding one the airer (well, DH does, I usually go with 'clothes thingie'). But my mum called her similar, but more wooden, one the High Dry. I'd call ours that, but I was over ruled by DH, on the basis that High Dry was "stupid" 🙄

@Evolutionarygoals Highdry is lovely and idealistic in a 60s kind of a way - adorable!

I'm usually quite traditional but think clothes horse has been superseded by airer.

Sainsbury do a small but extendable airer of the concertina variety that cannot be bettered. I have several, uni son has one too.

Likewise. 😁

We had a wooden one which we called a clothes horse, it was two pieces hinged together and as children we would put it on its side with a blanket over it and it became at tent.

I don't know what happened to it, maybe the back door was left open and it galloped off into the sunset?

I assume its because your packing things on to it like you would a horse..

My clothes horse stands up in the living room. I've never heard of anything going over the bath to dry clothes (I'm not in the UK)