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To wonder how on earth anyone copes without a tumble dryer?

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Bumbles55 · 01/11/2025 21:06

Ours broke yesterday and I feel like I’ve lost a limb! Having to wait an entire day or more for washing to dry (and having to put the heating on full blast 24/7 in order to facilitate this) is torture. I’m so used to washing uniform etc at night and being able to quickly chuck it in the tumble dryer in the AM whilst we get ready. Washing loads take proper pre planning now! Despite it being only DD and I at home we easily get through one full wash per day so the house is already absolutely covered in clothing drying on radiators etc.

The new one won’t be delivered for 2 weeks - unsure how I’ll survive in the meantime 🤣

OP posts:
Nutmuncher · 05/11/2025 08:45

We don’t use ours but it’s just the two of us. I hate what driers can do to clothing fibres, nothing ever feels quite the same after being tumbled.

Idontpostmuch · 05/11/2025 09:29

ClarafromHR · 04/11/2025 23:23

I honestly can’t see it. I wash everything in the machine including cashmere/ merino on appropriate settings and I have one jumper that must be 10 years old. Surely modern machines aren’t ruining our clothes otherwise they would come with some sort of clothes health warning.
i think the more damaging thing is to use the wrong detergent. I have friends who only use bio for everything and their clothes fade. Not the washer or the dryer - just the wrong detergent.

It was @ClarafromHR who originally mentioned washing machines, and whose post I was replying to, so I don't know why you're directing your snotty remarks solely to me. You don't really think my post 'hilarious'. So why can't you simply say you disagree?

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