How do you dry bath towels without having them smell??
OK, so the problem is a smell from the towel after you've used it to dry yourself once or twice? Leaving the bathroom door open is a very good idea. I would wonder where your towels are located in the bathroom. A lot of people hang them on the back of the door, which when the door is open will often be close to the shower head or toilet. You want to hang them as far away from the toilet and shower head as possible, because these are almost always damp, and almost always somewhat smelly. If you can hang them by the air vent, that's a major plus too. Hanging, of course, is better than folding. A folded up towel will always end up smelling awful if it's damp to start with, because there's not enough surface area for it to dry out. I usually wipe myself off by hand before using the towel, so that the towel does not get too wet. Less dampness on the towel lets it dry faster, so there's less time for mildew to grow. If you have two bathrooms, you might do the doo in one, and do the shower in the other, so that the nasty odors in the doo don't get into all the towels so much. Whether that would help at all is questionable. If you have two bathrooms with shower stalls, you might consider using separate ones, so all that moisture in the air from each shower only gets on the towel once a night (assuming there's only two of you...) As other possibilities, there's a chance that somebody isn't getting clean enough before using the towel... or that there should be more towels per person. My sister lives alone and has like one towel for each day of the month lined up on these massive towel racks... they only get used once, then she washes them all at the end of the month. Pretty insane, but it works. I'd guess one for every other day would be enough myself. Of course there's also the hypochodriac side of the equation: Do you really want to use those towels twice... to dry your face again after you've wiped off your behind on them once before?
A dryer sheet is basically a really thin sheet coated with fabric softener. When it is heated by the steam from the clothes being dried and rotates in and around the clothes, it coats them with a thin layer of fabric softener and makes them feel softer and gives them a longer lasting scent. This is why people love the ‘Gain’ brand of products. Not because they clean well (because they don’t compared to Tide and Cheer), but because they make the clothes feel soft and leave them smelling great for weeks.If you have to use fabric softener I would suggest the dryer sheets rather than the actual liquid fabric softener especially if you have a “front load” washing machine. Why, You ask? Because liquid fabric softener is made of animal fat and front load washers if not taken care of properly tend to grow mold and mildew and fabric softener magnifies this condition.Anyhow back to the question: Will you die from not using it, no, but the clothes may feel dry to the point where they have an almost hard texture so you could feel it in things like jeans and khakis , however if you dry your clothes well and don’t over dry them they won’t be as hard and you may not notice the difference in using or not using dryer sheets. Personally I have a bit of OCD when doing clothes so I dry things correctly and I never Use fabric softener and I rarely use the dryer sheets.I hope this helps and if you liked my answer or learned something then please upvote it and think about following me
Any suggestions for drying bedsheets in the dryer without having them "ball up"?
I"ve had the same hassles with drying my bed sheets, but I found something called the Drying Jack on ebay. It looks pretty funky, like a large toy jack, and its obviously not mass produced. The one I bought looks like somebody built it in their garage, but it really works. After washing my sheets I wrapped them around this big jack (about 12 inches) and put them in the dryer. I heard a little bit of clunking around, not like tennis shoes, more like baby sneakers. The dry sensor buzzed after 20 minutes and my sheets usually take at least 40 minutes to dry. I took them from the dryer and they were dry. I never had to untangle them. Don't know it works exactly, but I don't really care because my sheets dryed in about half the time without extra trips back and forth. This thing is really cool.
The #1 cause of house fires in well-to-do neighborhoods is dryer lint.You can use your dryer once without a lint filter; sometime between “once” and “burned to the ground,” you will wish you had gone on eBay and bought the replacement lint filter for your model dryer.Personal experience with broken lint filters suggests that after using the dryer for a while, it will be harder to get all the lint out of the dryer and the tubing between the dryer and the outside vent.Everything on that lint filter is going to go somewhere. You don’t want it on your clothes, you don’t want it in your house, and you really don’t want it clogging the exhaust so that it gets hot enough and catches fire.
Why is my dryer not drying towels?
It should only take 30-40 minutes for a normal load to dry. Towels should dry in 45 minutes. You must clean the lint filter either before or after every load so the dryer has a clean filter for every load. You should also keep the area where the lint filter slides in free of buildup on a regular basis. The most common reason for a long drying time is blockage in the venting. Kinks in the hose, buildup of lint and bird nests or other critter nests in the venting will cause the dryer to take extra long to dry clothes and will eventually cause a thermal fuse to open or the heating element to burn out. To determine whether the dryer is the problem or the venting is the problem, just take the vent off the rear of the dryer and dry a load of towels to see how quickly they will dry. If you dry them in less than an hour, you have a venting problem. If you determine there is a problem with the dryer, you can contact me with the make and a model number I will be glad to help you straighten it out or you can call the repairman.
How do I quickly dry my wet hair without a blow dryer?
I don't think there is any way to really straighten your hair without heat! You can try using some smoothing serums but that may just leave you with waves. I see this as the perfect time to try out some new hair styles! Test out braids and fun pony tails. Leave your hair natural and pul your bangs back to a poof on top of your head. There are so many things you can do. Idk if your hair is naturally curly or what but if you sleep with your hair in a braid, you can get really nice waves PS. Im sure your crush would like to see your natural hair! a lot of guys like girls with natural hair/makeup
Washer/dryers are very greedy on energy (bad for pocket and environment). But drying clothes in combined space can be a pain too. Also, if you keep the heating on just to dry clothes while you are out in winter, that is also a huge waste of energy and money! Excessive hang-drying can also contribute to condensation problems, leading to mould growth and potentially health hazards, unless your flat is well ventilated. Trying to keep your volume of washing low as is socially acceptable can help in this dilemma (and your clothes last longer/fade less). If you automatically and always wash all clothes you have worn once only - as some people seem to - there is definitely some scope for cutting down on the volume of washing and drying.If your volume of washing is low - hang dry, I'd say.
Clever ways to dry clothing indoors without a dryer?
If you need a lot of clothing to dry...it's a lot easier in the middle of the winter (NE US) where I live due to the heat making humidity inside the house nonexistent. If it's the winter and I have a ton of stuff to dry (say, like sweaters, since I have a dryer, but I don't want them to shrink), the "pop and fold" drying racks work great with a dehumidifier in the room (under a day and several sweaters are done, dry!!!) Budget-conscious? ...well, the dehumidifier is awesome (but can make things easier when the summer arrives and the humidity is up)... Try the "pop and fold" laundry baskets instead of the drying racks...they're for sale at target, linens and things, etc. get a light color just in case the cheap-tastic-ness of the item is a bright color and is somewhat more likely to bleed onto the clothing you're trying to dry. I've seen the aforementioned laundry baskets for under five bucks, unlike the ones that are wood, they can be folded and easily stored, and unlike the ones made for drying clothing (usually an elliptical shape that's a bit tippy), the laundry basket version actually works better since they can be a long rectangle-shape, which, when turned on its side has a much better ability to keep your clothing off of the floor. If you opt for a dryer, you can vent it pretty easily through a window, or by cutting a small (approximately) 4" hole in the side of your house where it won't be noticeable (the dryer's duct is only 4 inches in diameter most of the time and you'll save yourself the hassle of dealing with not only the humidity, but the little bits of lint that fly too!