Air-drying Clothes?

Question

My dryer is temporarily broken, so I'm doing things the old-fashioned way. Most people like the fact that air-drying clothes gives off less wrinkles, but I hate the stiff feel of it.

Is there a way to eliminate the stiffness in my clothes?

Answer 1

use extra softener

Answer 2

Make sure you are rinsing good, by putting them though a extra rinse cycle. You can also add 1/2 a cup of white vinegar to the final rinse. However nothing beets hanging it out on days that are windy, a day that is gusty, they smell so clean and are so soft,

Answer 3

Use the fabric softener made to go in with the washer cycles.

When hanging clothes on the line, shake them out hard (like "pop!") and hang.  Do the same when you take it off the line. Do not fold.  Take your hangers out to the clothesline and hang them up immediately.  No ironing.

Answer 4

When I have to air-dry clothes, I do it indoors for two reasons...

1. The humidity

2. I can put a small fan near the hanging clothes (on hangers) and that helps them not to dry so stiff.

It is tougher when trying to dry towels.  They need lots of shaking-out when drying.  If your dryer will at least tumble things, that might help loosen things up if you tumble them awhile at different parts of the drying process. Or just take them to the laundromat, damp, and only pay for drying them.

Our water is naturally soft, so the only rinse I usually use is vinegar, but if your water isn't soft it might be a good idea to use a softener (even though I don't like the chemicals in them).

Hope this helps!

Answer 5

Liquid fabric softener in the washing machine!

Answer 6

Try shaking them out after they come off the line.