WASHING AND DRYING HELP!

[hunnybun1981]

HI GIRLS

before xmas when i had flu i bagged up all my washing and threw it in the back of my cupboard, just gone to look for a particular top and have realised the amount of washing

problem is i have no tumble drier so i have clothes every where its awful

we r due to pick up r new tumble drier in a few weeks but what do i do in the mean time, i need the house tidy as the landlord will be coming round to look at r house as we have asked him to do some improvements to it otherwise we r moving out.

how do u all keep on top of the washing and drying any help or advice greatly weclomed

I hang mine over doors and radiators but not goo idea if landlord coming as obviously not good for damp/condensation.
I also use a clothes horse over the bath

Oh, I hate my tumble drier, I never use it

Hang it on the line for the landlord visit? As long as it isn't raining - it may even get a bit dry with the wind ...then, when landlord gone, hang on every radiator, door, cupboard door, chair back, in the airing cupboard etc.

You can just picture the washing hanging all over my house can't you...

i would make a trip to lauderette, get all the washing done and tumble dry everything that can be tumble dried.
once you have your washing mountain under controll i would say try to do small washes frequently rather than once a week, as in this weather its a nightmare to dry loads of it at once. itend to do about 3 dark washes a week, one white and one colour, and dry it on an airer (i dont like putting it on radiators as it goes hard)

I'm with nancy75 - little and often. We do at least one load a day and that way it never gets too out of hand.

i dont think i could afford to get it all washed and dried at laundrette to be honest, my damn clothes horse broke so i may go and buy some more, i will put duvet covers all over banister etc tomorrow there r about 6 to be dried.

fingers crossed the weather is dry tomorrow and windy lol

i wash pjs and school uniform every day , well i put a clean one or set on every day is this the norm some people say i am mad lol
i give myseld work

my dd has clean pjs every night, she not old enough for uniform yet but wears at least one (usually more) clean outfit everyday so i understand your washing pain!

good i am glad my dh thinks the kids could be in pjs for say 2/3 nights like him (lol)

i mean they r bathed every day but my eldest is special needs so she comes home from school like a muck magnet.

my dd is still in nightime nappies so i always worry they would be abit piddly if she wore them twice, also i find it odd to have a bath and then put on dirty (i know they're not really dirty)clothes. tbh, my dp is actually the worst culprit for washing, the amount of socks i wash i think he must have 7 pairs of feet!

I hang as much as possible to dry on clothes hangers. Cuts down on ironing (ironing? What's that then? ) and a lot of stuff can get put straight away in the wardrobe when dry.

It means you can get more on a clothes horse too.

Definitely little and often, but really if I were you I'd do even a few loads at the laundrette to just get it out the way. You'll feel so much better. What about washing at home and carting the spun stuff to just use the drier at laundrette?

yes my youngest is still in night time nappies and know what u mean about piddly

oh my god someone else with the problem of socks, lol

MEN!!

also if you use the big machine at the laundrette you can do about 5 normal washes all at once.

i was thinking of hiding dps clothes and just giving him sock rations, once he has worn his allowance for the week he will just have to go without!

I have the same problem with washing. I have about 3 black sacks of it waiting to be washed - we need a clothes clear out anyway but I can't get rid of dirty clothes . Would it be embarrassing to admit that I wouldn't have a clue how to use a launderette? Do i give the washing to Dot Cotton or what?

eyeballs, you can get dot cotton to do it (they charge you a bit more) or you just go in and do it yourself, you just put money in the machine then use like a normal washing machine. you can go away and come back when its finished. my washing machine broke down just before xmas and for a couple of weeks i was the laundrettes biggest fan!

lol you could, it's called a service wash, but I've never fancied someone else going through my dirty washing (and I'm too tight).

There are instructions on the machines, but apart from having to put about a hundred 20ps in the driers it's much the same as using your own equipment.

also if you get a service wash they tumble dry everything, so dont give them anything that might shrink, they dont check.

Ooh, I'm stupidly excited at the prospect of using a launderette. My biggest problem in this house is clothes. We have millions of them yet nothing to wear, ever. I have no wardrobe, only shelves and DH's wardrobe is stuffed full. My New Year's resolution was to wash every item of clothing we have, put it in a big pile on the floor, sort into want and don't want, and buy some hanging rails for the spare room.

So I could start it off and go shopping? Sounds almost fun, like someone else doing the work