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 🤣

PS a stove top fan is must as far as I'm concerned. Really cuts drying time - for free.

It's no problem at all, I've never had one. I use a covered electric dryer from Lakeland, costs pennies to run and everything is dry quickly. I suppose it depends how many people are in your household.

we’ve had ours for years now but when the previous one broke when kids were tiny we went out and replaced it immediately. We do hang stuff as well but it takes so long to dry

I don't know, I have never had one, and even used cloth nappies for ds. And never missed one. I do have two reception rooms, and a dehumidifier, so maybe just about space?

Exactly. It’s like when people say they can always smell a house with a cat

I have a nose like a bloodhound and can sniff damp or mould out, my neighbour asked me to find the bad smell in her kitchen as I’m so good at it!

but I open windows every day, hang stuff to dry so it’s not crumpled up and wash stuff with bio powder. Mine has been drying since last night so 24hrs and it smells like persil

I couldn't live without mine OP.
I get as much washing outside as possible but when it's damp outside or raining then I love my dryer.

I really couldn't be doing with washing clothes, hanging them outside and then bringing them inside to hang up all over again on an airer, then put them away. What a faff!

Check the weather
Dry tomorrow and then dry again thur
Will do an overnight wash and then another in the morning

Everything out on the line in the morning and finish it off on airers if it doesn't dry in time

We have a log burner so when we start using that I will put the airers in front of the burner when we go to bed.

Try to avoid doing the bulk of drying in the house to limit moisture

Don't think we have used our tumble for about 4 years

She didn't say it was just two people, she said, '"uniforms", so I assumed children.

Another heated airer convert. I hardly use the dryer now. I do use it for bedding and towels and underwear and gym gear but all the uniform and work wear goes on the heated area and comes off perfectly dry and flat. The money save is a bonus. I love it the most for giving me flat clothes for zero effort.

Fair enough, some people have a problem with it, some don't. Just like some people put all their dry clothes in the wardrobe and hate it if their partner leaves any lying anywhere around the bedroom-that doesn't bother me, unless it's so much they're in the way.
Now my gran (on the UK side), yes, the one I mentioned above, was a real one foe "not having the place looking like a washing hoose!". I saw a comic strip on this in a Broons annual, so it seems she's not the only one to use this term.
And she had a cupboard for shoes, and took coats from visitors at the door to hang them up. She really was a lovely lady, though quite fixed on some things!

Easily and the electric bill is cheaper too.

Some people don’t have a tumble dryer OR heating!

that's a weird way of seeing it.

Washing machine, or dish washer, I need. If the machine doesn't do, I have to do it, so it's wasting my time.

Drying the clothes? I don't actually do anything when they're outside, and I prefer that anyway. If dryers could dry an entire load of washing in 15-20mn, I would use them, but they take ages anyway. So I really don't see the point.

The only place you'll see washing in my house is the bathroom and the kits in the utility.

My response was ‘I can bet your bottom dollar that your husbands, boyfriends, partners are not thinking the same thing
You know that men wash their clothes just as much as women do? 😂

I don’t have a dryer, and never have. Currently me and 2 primary aged DC live in our house; I do 4 loads of washing in the week, we only wear clothes once then they go in the basket, children do extra-curricular sports most days.

Cleaner comes once a fortnight for 4 hours, and does 3 loads (towels, bedding etc) while she is working.

All our washer and wet clothes get hung on my one airer to dry.

I’m in the South-West and had washing outside this week. Get it out by 11am and dry by 3pm. I have a tumble dryer and barely use it. Everything goes outside on a lovely long washing line unless it’s raining.

Sorry, but that is a ridiculous amount of washing. I'm not in the UK and we frequently see messages on TV advising people to wash things after two or three wears, not just one wear.

As the poster you were replying to said, people wash far far too frequently.

Alongside our casual clothes DD works on a farm so comes home covered in mud etc every day and I’m a HCP with limited uniform allowance! It means that the washing machine never stops.

I've always been fortunate enough to have a heated UT or laundry so never needed a dryer. Also the luxury of not having to look at laundry drying.

I’d love to be able to get multiple wears before needing to wash but apart from jeans it’s just not doable for us. Like the above poster I am a sweaty being, I couldn’t get a second day out of a top without smelling of BO. Suggesting wearing gym gear twice is 🤢

I’m in NI - I fear we live in rather different climates🙈 My SW/SE England friends and family haven’t even had to get their winter coats out yet meanwhile we’ve been living in wellies and thermals for the past few weeks!

It’s all relative and there will always be somebody worse off in life. I’ve been on the breadline more times than I’d care to admit - I’m fully aware that a lack of tumble dryer is a privileged struggle to have.

Lol no they don’t. You are being ridiculous. And rude.
They are not “wet” for two days. That’s how one it takes them to dry (on average) on clothes airers, next to a dehumidifier.

We had one when the children were little. I don’t think anything ever got fully dry. When the children were small I sent all the towels / bedding to the laundrette once a week as we just drowned in laundry.
I have a Lakeland heated airer, dry bedding over the bannisters (it dries quickly) if there’s too much I’ll send it for a service wash and dry.
You can’t tumble every item of clothing surely?

We're a family of 5 andvditched ours 30 odd years ago, they're completely unnecessary.

They’re only unnecessary if you don’t mind a lot of wet washing around your home taking days to dry