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09/29/07, 09:01 AM
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Clothes drying racks?
On another post it was mentioned that some people have larger sized folding, clothes drying racks. Some large enough to dry a full load or two at one time. Where do you find these larger racks like this? The only ones we have been able to find are rather small and it would take 3 or 4 just to dry one load.
I want to continue air drying clothes even as the winter weather sets in. I like saving $$$ on the electric bill. I have asthma, even though I have been doing much better in recent years, I don't think messing with wet laundry out in freezing weather would be a good idea.
Since we heat with a woodstove, it would be perfect to set a clothes rack or two up in the living room over night (well away from the stove). They would be dry by morning. I could do all our laundry overnight this way and put everything away early in the morning.
I am having my oldest son build a tall free standing rack for hanging shirts and jeans on hangers to dry.
I am also planning on using pants stretchers to dry our jeans nice and neat and advoid ironing. I was planning to order them this week, Lehmans has them for $10.95 each. If someone has an idea where to find them where it's a bit more affordable, I would appreciate that too.
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09/29/07, 07:19 PM
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09/29/07, 07:25 PM
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I shake our jeans out really well and use the pants hangers (the ones with clips on the ends) to hang them by the hem. That way gravity can help pull out wrinkles..
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09/29/07, 08:16 PM
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Mansfield, VT for 200 yrs
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I found this on Amazon while I was building links for another website... it has a very cool design, but I'm not sure, looking at it, whether or not there are any actually for sale!
Butterfly clothes dryer
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09/29/07, 09:54 PM
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Personally, I want one of these. It's suspended from the ceiling on pulleys. You crank it down, load it up and then crank it back up to the ceiling to dry. If you had tall ceilings, it wouldn't even hardly be in the way, and since heat rises the clothes are bound to dry faster. 
http://www.joyfulspincycle.com/JSC%2...ing%20Rack.htm
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09/30/07, 06:11 AM
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All country,
Do you live near any of the amish communities in Indiana? I got mine through the amish here in OH. It is large and very sturdy.
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09/30/07, 08:52 AM
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www.vermontcountrystore.com
also, I found mine at walmart. I also saw some little racks there that magnet to your washer/dryer...kinda cool. There was one that held shirts on hangers, one that might hold a couple of towels or something...I don't need them, but I know some here with small spaces might find them cool.
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10/02/07, 12:21 PM
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More about clothes drying racks
The Butterfly Rack is indeed for sale at Amazon.com, I have purchased 2, 1 for myself and one for my sister. It is very well made, and we are both happy with it. I found out they have a website which has the hanging rack mentioned earlier, and several others also. http://www.joyfulspincycle.com/JSC%2...ing%20Rack.htm
definitly worth the money and free shipping to Canada and the US.
Last edited by akarich8928; 10/02/07 at 01:33 PM.
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10/02/07, 12:26 PM
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If cost is a factor, use your shower curtain rods - during rainy spots and too cool of weather, my bathrooms always have laundry hanging in them lol
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10/02/07, 12:41 PM
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Thank you for your replies. I am checking into some of the sites you have posted.
I am close to several Amish communities, so will do some checking there.
Hanging on the shower curtain rod doesn't work here. I tried it in the past. Someone would always take the clothes down, so they could get showered than fail to hang them back up. We all shower at different times some mornings, some mid day and others before bed.
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10/02/07, 01:43 PM
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I've got a beloved old wood drying rack which collapses with sad regularity now... I definitely will be looking at the Butterfly rack, now that I have two more recommendations for it!
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10/02/07, 06:43 PM
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When the children were small, I had a wood dryer like the Lehman's one but it also had fold out sides like the butterfly rack to hang even more on. Eventually, it gave out - wish I could remember where I ever found it to start with! I surely could use another.
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10/02/07, 08:05 PM
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Don't laugh. We had a trampoline, once upon a childhood... and when the mat tore up, I discovered that it cost more to purchase a new mat, than an entirely new trampoline. As the succeeding children were accident prone boys, I let the trampoline phase of our life pass on by. But the trampoline metal frame, for a long time, was used as a very sturdy metal drying rack. The holes (for the springs) worked well to put a wire hanger in, which kept the clothes spaced out nicely. DH made a stand of sorts to put the thing basically on it's side. Sorry, no photo... Some years later, the trampoline parts now function as a shortish tent (covered with tarps) that serves as the 'kitchen' at the river camp.
Trampoline parts are often available just for carting them away.
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