Do you AIR?

[TheProvincialLady]

Following on from the what your mother does thread, I was wondering how many people AIR things these days? I tend to assume that when something is dry from the washing line or tumble dryer that it is, well, dry - and I can't see that there is anything else to do with it except iron and/or wear it.

Am I a misguided slattern or is airing simply not done these days?

no.
i bet dh would
he is hte best washign folder in the world

no.
i bet dh would
he is hte best washign folder in the world

tumble dry everything, put it away!

Isn't washing line the same as airing..?

I agree it's all in the folding!

I put dried things in the airing cupboard- sometimes I air my duvet cover after ironing if it's still a bit damp

Oh do you have to have an airing cupboard then? We haven't got one cos we got a combi boiler!

I air

Because this is what my mother and grandmother did... it also provides an excellent excuse for not putting away. "Where's my new blue T shirt?" "Oh, it's still airing darling"

I don't air

I don't understand why it's necessary

MIL is an obsessive airer - she doens't usually stick her nose in wrt dd's dragging up but she did say to me once "Make sure that her vests are aired properly, you can't use that one, it's only just come in off the line". . I withered her with my evil eye and she went back to be non-interfering and lovely

All our sheets live in the airing cupboard but that's passive airing - there's nowhere else to put them.

Not sure how much more air the clothes could get after being on the washing line.....and why is putting them in a tiny cupboard 'airing' them, while hanging them in the fresh air is not?

People are odd.

But then some people iron knickers.

Hang on, what exactly is it swirling round the clothes when theyre on the line??
Oh, thats right.....AIR!!!

My mum aired. my auntie said i should. my clothes are dry when i put them away(its a different story with dp , i dont see the problem.

What is airing?

I thought I k new till I read this thread

I don't air as such, but all clothes come in from line or out of dryer and get folded into wire drawers (thanks Cod for the idea ages ago - I remembered your suggestion of the Antonius Ikea stuff when planning my lovely new laundry room) from whence everyone puts their own away. In winter I do tend to take things from dryer still slighty damp (better for ironing and electricity consumption) and they dry off in the laundry room.

Airing = hanging up in airing cupboard following process of washing, drying and ironing.

I guess it stemmed from Victorian obsession with colds from wearing damp clothing?

And what if you have no airing cupboard like me?

Thanks you primula. So juts making sure things are completely dry.

I have no room to do that. Shelves in airing cupboard are full of stuff

If the airing cupboard is full, I hang on those hook thingys that go on top of doors ...

I cant help myself. I HAVE to air.

But I don't iron knickers

i am 'airing' the piles of clothes i hung out on the line yesterday in the PISSING rain.

Tsk! Air is a NOUN, not a VERB. In my book.

HedgeWitch - before you wash them? But surely the washing will get rid of the smoke smell?

I clearly don't belong on this thread....

Sorry, what exactly is airing ?

Sorry I missed PV's definition.
God no.
I wash, I dry, I iron.
I dry by: hanging over anything I can find, radiators, wire folding air'er thingys, on the line, airing cupboard.
But never 'air' at any other time.

And in this day and age the need to 'air' , post ironing, is ..........???

I do in the winter, as the clothes come in damper, but in the summer tis only bedding I air.......and then only if they have been on the line at the end of the day.....if from the morning I don;t feel the need.

I used to air their vests tho when they were tiny....they all still got chest infections, wonder now why I bothered, it never seemed to help!

I've never 'got' the concept of airing. How can putting something in an unventilated cupboard 'air' it? That's what washing lines and clothes airers are for.

We keep towels in the so-called airing cupboard, but purely because it's the only easily-available communal storage space.

The best use for the airing cupboard, IMO, is for proving yeast-dough.