Welcome back! Our wash dry fold in Raleigh NC is back with tips on how to line-dry your summer laundry outdoors! Instead of spending all your time cooped up in the house this summer, try hanging your clothes out to dry!
Once you have a line, you’ll need some clothespins to hold your wash on it. Buy the sturdiest ones you can find—in my experience, the cheap ones lose their grip in even the lightest breeze and fall apart easily. Keep your pins in a portable bag or other container that you can hang on the line while pinning up your laundry.
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Store the bag inside when not in service; if your pins are left outside, they will get dirty and may stain your wash. Also, they won’t last as long. You can make a very serviceable clothespin container out of a stiff plastic milk or water jug: Cut off the bottom of the handle to make a hanging hook and cut away some of the jug’s top for easy access to your clothespins inside.
If you want to speed up the drying process, you can run your laundry through an extra spin cycle in your washer. Once your laundry’s been spun, grab your clothespins and tote your wash out to the line. Give each item a good snap to minimize wrinkles and attach it firmly to the line with the pins. Try to gently stretch collars, the strips down the front of buttoned shirts, and seams that are prone to shrinking, pulling them to their normal lengths, before hanging them. Be careful not to overstretch.
Fold the top edge of each item of clothing over the clothesline and clip the fold to the line. Clothing dries fastest if it’s hung in a single layer, with nothing folded in half over itself. If space is limited, you can scrunch things closer together; it will just all take a little longer to dry. Hang small, thin items like dress socks together in pairs to save on pins and space and overlap the corners of larger items so one pin can hold both. On windy days, use extra clips to make sure everything’s especially secure.
For more line-drying tips, be sure to visit back with our wash dry fold in Raleigh NC, soon!
