I find myself wanting a tumbledrier...

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Tell me why i should / shouldn't.

Cannot take my pants drying in the lounge for much longer, washing has reached crisis point since DC2 showed up...

Should - you don't have to spend damp days feeling like you live in a Chinese laundry.

If you have moral qualms about energy use, you don't have to use it all the time.

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I use mine in winter - but never summer.

they are the bees knees. Your life will change forever!

I honestly don't know how anyone with a family manages without one!

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God - it's a neccessity in our house!! How do you dry things in winter/rainy weather without one??!?!?

Whatever you do go for one condense dryer not one with the hose to put out the window. Our first one was like that and it was pants.

I have a condense dryer and if DH was better at DIY it could be plumbed into the pipes so that I would not even need to empty the tank. My friend has a DIY DH and hers is like this.

You will wonder how you managed without one, especially for all the little DCs clothes.

necessity in my house.

3 dc's under 5yo, and unreliable coastal weather.

an indoor airer only holds so much, so tumble dryer goes on probably 4 times a week!

TBH, my elec bill is only £10 a week (on a meter)

Sorry, just realised that sentence did not really make sense. And they are called condenser dryers.

i use the water out of my condesor to water the garden!!!

Riven...thats awful. Are there no better special nappies you could buy for her?

Does the service not have nappies designed fro older children? seems crazy...she may as well be wearing pants if they are just going to leak straight away....
Have you told them how crap they are?

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Gosh...just recently your posts have mademe very for people in your position. I don't mean that in a patronising way....

Are you alone with dd all day?, must be hard if your DH is working....

Gosh thats hard...do you have not have access to respite care that could allow one of you to work more hours?

My friend has a little girl aged one that she has been told will not walk or talk...they have already been offered respite care...her husband works ful time though, so it is difficult for her to be constantly taking her to hospital appts alone etc

We have one and hardly use it in the summer. Don't know how we would survive without it when DS has a vomiting bug. The air curculation in our house is rubbish so washing usually takes ages to dry on the airer and ends up smelling. It does eat electric but I couldn't do without it.

we have a dehumidifier that we use when the washing really piles up - uses as much energy as a (greedy) lightbulb, and if you leave it on overnight everything is dry (apart perhaps from waistbands of jeans, sometimes).

I don't know how anybody lives without one.

I use mine all the time. I find anything that is dried on a line really 'crusty'.

My kids refuse to wear anything line dried as they say it itches them!

Get one ready for winter.

We got one after DD2 was born, we live in Scotland so drying outside is a no no for about 11 1/2 months of the year.

I have a system where I hang the washing overnight on an airer and then finish it off in the tumble drier the next day, cuts down drying time and cost by about 2/3rds and you still get the fluffy feeling from the tumble drier and easier to iron too.

Have never had one to everyone's
But we do have an aga, which we inherited with our house and that is such an energy gobbler I've justified it by using it also as a clothes dryer - some people are horrified to see knickers draped all over it but I don't care!
You can live without one if you have a reasonable sized house and outdoor space but if not with dcs I think it's entirely justifiable. Do what sweetkitty does