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

[Bumbles55]

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 🤣

If your clothes are wet for two days they smell when dry. You've probably got used to it but they definitely smell.

I'm in my 40s with two kids and I've never owned one. I utilise a ceiling clothes airer and a dehumidifier.

I solve that problem by not getting clothes that need ironing!

See I don’t get this issue with seeing washing? Surely it’s just part of life- no different to seeing coats or shoes in a hallway, toiletries in a bathroom etc. Honesty I wouldn’t even notice it in someone’s house unless it was in my way or something.

We got one for the first time about a year ago and I honestly don't know how we coped before! It's changed my life almost as much as when we got the dishwasher 😆

No they don't. I have a very sensitive nose due to peri menopause and my clothes don’t smell.

Never had one,family of 5.Washing goes on the heated airer with dehumidifier running,or on radiators or outside.

I literally cannot imagine being without a tumble drier. When I had no money and lived in a studio flat I still had a washer-drier.

Mate, you've just gone nose-blind.

I have a dehumidifier. It's brilliant, I just turn it on and shut the door and it dries two loads of washing overnight. Cheaper than tumble drying in energy costs too.

I hate to break it to you but they definitely do 😬 even when we didn’t have a tumble dryer and dried bedding over the course of a day, it started to smell. Sometimes my jumpers that I can’t tumble dry will stay a little damp and they stink

Family of 3 here (myself & 2 under 10 kids) also wash for my partner and his son when they stay over (don't live with us though). I don't calculate how many washes per week, but it's at least 15-20 lol, bedding, uniform all adds up. I don't have a dryer because don't have the proper space for it and tbh, I don't need it. I do have my heating on whenever we need it though cause my son has ASD and won't wear certain clothes, no matter how cold it is lol. I used an indoor clothes airer (not heated) and use doors, chairs etc. It dries overnight most of the time and anything that needs a bit longer I pop on the radiator. I feel like a dryer would be a waste for me personally! But I used to not be able to cope without one haha. This house is very well insulated though which definitely helps the drying process, in my flat before it was a nightmare to get clothes dry, took days!

Also helps I have a large banister and tons of radiators, so it helps me get it all dry.

We’ve never had one. Washing is pegged outside all year round, larger bedding/towels on dry, windy days. Daily, small loads on a quick wash ensure never too much to hang up at once should it all need to go indoors. A clothes horse, few airers over radiators and hanging dryers with dangly pegs for underwear hanging from a spare curtain rail do the trick, and there’s 4 of us.

No it's not, don't be ridiculous.

We've had two in cloth nappies (at different times) and managed without a dryer. We don't have space. We have a heated airer, two ordinary airers and a dehumidifier. The heating is on a normal amount October to March. We dry outside when we can.

Or changes their clothes,bedding/, towels...

I am South East London. I work mainly from home, so it's easier, and I dried 3 loads of laundry outside today. Took them inside when it started raining this evening, they are finishing drying in the bathroom tonight, they will be put away tomorrow morning.

I never bother with a dryer, they take too long and the noise annoys me.

That's down to how you dry things.

my clothes etc do not smell because I dry them properly (without a dryer)

I would feel the same. I love washing towels and bedding etc in the winter, drying and putting away in the same day, it is the little things. 🙃
I cut back on other things for my dryer, although it isn’t a huge cost, not much difference in electricity summer or winter.
I use a clothes rack too.

I only got a tumble dryer a couple of years ago and lived the 25 years since I left home before that without one.

I use it for towels (dry like sandpaper otherwise) and to give the bedding a head start. But don’t use it more than once a week (I am not the MN type who washes towels daily!) I have a pulley in a utility room with a dehumidifier that I use most of the year and a whirligig in the garden in summer. Before that had one of those Lakeland heater airers in the utility which worked well but I got fed up looking at it, it was never down, and trying to squeeze around it.

Maybe because it’s new to me I kind of don’t trust the dryer. Feel like it’s going to burn my house down and run away with my electricity, so I only use when necessary.

To add the tumble dryer gives out a good heat too. Keeping the kitchen toasty.

We are lucky enough to have a wood burner that’s on at least 1/2 the day. Often put washing on the drier in front of it overnight and by the morning it’s dry. Have a tumble drier but rarely use it

Get a dehumidifier and an airing rack.

I've never had one. I set the washing machine to run in the night and hang the washing outside as early as possible. Even in January it will dry to some extent. Sheets dried outside smell lovely.

I can't understand how you can produce so many loads of washing.