I usually do two loads of wash every other day. If I have more (like after vacation), I make “temporary drying racks” by turning my counter stools upside down on my kitchen chairs and placing some kind of pole across two (the broom, a Webster or my spare tension rod) and hang clothes in the kitchen near the vent. My husband isn’t too keen on this set up regularly but on ocassion, it’s okay. It saves my clothes, my dryer, my gas bill, etc. I can’t see NOT trying to come up with SOMETHING that works as every little bit counts. I’d rather use my gas and electric dollars for other things.

I do fully dry sheets and towels. I live in a patio home with no outdoor clothes lines. If I wanted to do so, I could dry smaller items on a rack (socks, underwear, washcloths) but I haven’t been motivated to do that often.

For stiff cloths or wrinkles I just hang the cloths in the bathroom while I take a shower. The steam from the shower softens and removes wrinkles.

I live in Helsinki, Finland, not an especially warm place, and not somewhere that really permits outside drying for most of the year. We have one large hanging rack that can be folded away, and it’s big enough to cope with a family of four. For sheets, our apartment block has a designated Drying Room, but even if it didn’t, it’s quite possible to dry sheets in places like over the shower rail or draping over the drying rack – you simply fold it in half, then turn it over when one side is dry.

Rainy days and winter make outdoor drying difficult, but we still air dry our clothes by using this type of clothes drying rack Being round it works really nice under a ceiling fan!

One tip is to switch your laundry time to the evening then put the clothes on racks in your living space right before bed to dry 8 hours while you sleep. You’ll have dry clothes in the morning without tripping over the rack all day.

I live in the country but in a neighborhood with a homeowners association. They unfortunately have a rule that you cannot put up a clothesline in your yard. So what I do after I wash a load of clothes is put everything on hangers and air dry them in my very large walk-in closet. It has vents in the wall for air circulation so my clothes dry within 24 hours. I usually just transfer them after they are dry to whoevers closet they belong in. Saves a lot of time and space and I don’t have clothes drying all over the house which is great. For blankets, sheets and towels, I wait for nice days and just hang them over the rail of my deck outside.