OMG!
it wont stop raining.
i have clothes on the line, and wet clothes in the washing machine!
i thought it would be sunny but no the sun hid!
wet wet wet ! arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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OMG!
it wont stop raining.
i have clothes on the line, and wet clothes in the washing machine!
i thought it would be sunny but no the sun hid!
wet wet wet ! arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
same here!!
same here too!!! its REALLY annoying....
i do have a dryer but i HATE using it so im trying to resist the temptation!!!
we dont have a dryer :(
i need them to be dry by next week ! lol! no fun packing wet clothes......
do you have airers that you can put the clothes on inside?
Our dryer died just as the rain started, but I've managed to get my washing dry by using airers and a heater... I just pop a sheet over the airer to keep the heat in, and everything dries almost as quick as if it were in the dryer!
BW
no heater :(
and my airers are full of cloth nappies :( also trying to dry
Bugger! Is it possible to duck out and get a little fan heater just to help things dry? a $20 heater and a sheet will get an airer dry in about 3 hours here.
BW
I am having the same problem - don't have a drier and can't find our airer (I think DPs parrot may have been allowed to climb on it and chew it to bits so DP may have discarded of it!) and the ones available in shops at the moment are so small... I am trying to find one like the one that is missing but seems I was very lucky to find that one!
So each night, I go home from work and wash something to wear the next day and place it on a towel over the column heater and hope for the best.
I trip to the laundromat might be in order this Sunday... have a wedding to go to on Saturday
i might suggest to dh we take the kids to visit MIL tonight,,,,,
hehe (Shhhhh about my motives ahahahahah)
Heheh PP sounds like a good idea to me!!
I am sooo thankful for my dryer... it was a housewarming pressie from my dad... I might have to ring him tonight and say thanks again!
i know how you feel! my linen cupboard is empty.. and my washing line is full of towels/tea towels etc!
i hang my clothes on hangers, and hang them around the house, under the heater vents... they eventually get dry.. i just have to rotate them around a bit.
i so need to invest in a couple more clothes airers....
Must've been some wonky rain where I am last night - my clothes line is under the carport & this morning my washing from yesterday morning was soaking wet!!
mine too!!!!!!! lucky there is lotsa rope under my entertaining areas, hanging from it so there is washing pegged everywhere!!!!
OMG ur moving?
Yep HOllye next week!
all the rope is packed pmsl!
Are you doing any cooking in the oven? Maybe pop a casserole in the oven, and move the clothes airer into your kitchen if you can?
Or you can use a fan instead of the heater... take a while but quicker than the clothes just sitting there....
Yeah same!! I did two loads of washing over night to hang out today and had to put them in the dryer thismorning then my mum calls and says her washing machine has literally stopped working so she brought her soaking washing over and I have a washer/dryer in one so it has been a very long day of washing already!!
Even a ceiling fan will get the air moving enough to get the airers dry in a couple of days. If you have a fan that you can put on in a spare room on full speed it will do more than having them in the living room, because cold moving air will make you feel colder. The faster the air moves the faster they dry.
Places where I dry stuff besides airers:
Over the dining chairs, on hangers on the curtain tracks, over the shower screens, over the top of doors, and in desperate times (and only when I know it's clean ;) ) I spread washing out over the floor overnight once the kids are in bed.
As alioops said, fans work really well. At the moment, I have my clothes under one on full-speed in the spare room. Even a standard fan will work. Definitely way cheaper than the dryer option! Hope you get them dry.
well i took them over to MIL tonight :)
2 baskets full to give their dryer a work out.
yaya!!!
Good idea PP, I was going to suggest using your mum/MILs!
We got a drier when we had our first baby. I rarely use it but it definitely comes in handy in weather like this. I've been letting mine line dry (our clothes line is under cover) for the most part then bringing them in when they are just damp and giving them 5mins in the dryer to finish them off. It's the only way I've managed to get all the washing and nappies dry over the last two weeks.
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That is what I have been doing too Willow;)
Ugh I hear ya!
No dry clothes here in days. I know it's breaking the drought but this is ridiculous!
It's going to be one wet summer in Brissy this year, mark my words ;)
Rainy winter means a wet, stormy humid summer.
i have no M or MIL to use their resources. No spare room to stick airers in. No outdoor undercover space to hang stuff up.
Our clothes horse is in our dining area, with a fan going. the clothes touch dh's back when he sits down to eat dinner (it's a tiny unit). when i breastfeed in that room, i have to turn the fan off, too cold for me otherwise.
when i've desperate, i hang wet items over the baby gates, whilst bilby is asleep. and on over the door hooks (with wet clothing hung up on curved end coathangers).
we only have the three of us, but i try to keep up with the washing, cos if i let it accumulate, there is nowhere to put "catchup" loads.
i think if we REALLY fell in a hole with washing, it would be a laundromat that would dig us out of that hole. Several big loads and the industrial size driers. i hate laundromats so would be last resort.
my place looks like a chinese laundry too! luckily i have a big deck that i've put ropes up everywhere to hang clothes on, but the weather's so crap they're still taking 2 days to dry...
Gigi! i hear you there! this the the first time i have asked MIL for anything. next week we will be back to isolation with no family or friend (but i look forward to meeting new people in our new town :):
Laundermats OMG hell no! my kids would go crazy!!! lol
we used to have the rope under the patio and it worked great esp when the wind picked up. but with 3/4 the house in boxes atm who knows where rope is
everyone seems to have heaters.. should i invest in one?
PP - oil heaters are great with littlies - we got a small one from target and its awesome :)
SS- I am having the same prob with drying clothes. Does yor oil heater take up alot of electricity? AM thinking of getting one.
Ali - not really - definately less than any other heater we've ever had!
might need to look into it.
i just dont know how wet and cold it is going to be down there! :P