Air drying laundry

Happy2BeMe

Hey girls,

My dryer died, so I picked up a drying rack for the laundry for now. I am actually thinking I'm going to stick with this...clothes are getting put away so much faster, LOL.

My question though is that being I can only hang dry inside (HOA doesn't allow lines outside), the clothes are coming out STIFF for the most part. I do add 1/4 c vinegar to every load, so I can only imagine how it would be without that. What can I do girls? 

ArcticFox

For stuff like DH's work shirts, I fluff them in the dryer before hanging to dry.  Or, after things are dry, you can fluff them in the dryer with something wet.

If you're not getting any replacement dryer, I'm not sure.  DH has a clothes steamer he got instead of sending everything to the dry cleaner.  Seems more eco friendly than other options (dry cleaning, drying completely in the dryer with dryer sheets).  I don't know else how to make stuff softer.

grahamsm3

I only have a problem with jeans and towels coming out stiff. I hang all shirts and my work pants on a rack to dry w/o stiffness.

So if you are getting a new dryer; pick and choose what you will hang.

I don't know what you could do to make things less stiff.

CDMay2006

I'm not sure.  Soft/light things (tshirts, etc.) i give a quick shake to and they loosen up.  Jeans and towels end up stiff, but not as stiff as if i dry outside.  We use a combination of air dry and dryer drying, as in, after the clothes hang dry i put them in the dryer for a few minutes to soften them up.  Not that that helps you, though...

MrsOjoButtons

Can you move the rack and position it over a heating vent? 

CaseBride

If your dryer died and just the heat doesn't work, you could try tumbling them with no heat. But if they won't tumble, then I have no ideas...

NCV2

We live in London and don't have a dryer, many people don't.  

I shake out all items when taking the out of the washer.  I put jeans on our hot water heater, which drys them quicker and also helps with the stiffness.  

Our towels are stiff.  You just get used to it.  I hated it at first, four years later it's the norm.  If I had my way we would have a dryer and I would use it for towels all the time and we would use it for socks in the winter and for other for about 10 min in the winter.  

It takes socks 4 or 5 days to dry in the winter here it's pretty bad.   

Honeybumble

The only luck I've had on stiff laundry is a steam iron. I don't do it often, because it's very tedious, but it works!