As an aside I successfully folded a fitted sheet recently, and obviously I’m a wizard now.
I use a laundry bag for any sheets to avoid this
Good LPT
What happens when the sheet eats that?
I bought a cheap knock-off of a shark tank product, where you clip the four corners of the sheets together - and it’s worked a treat.
In retrospect, a large enough laundry bag as another comment mentioned would also work wonders!
Just stop secreting oils and losing cells from your skin so you can sleep on a bare mattress. 🤷🏻♂️
And, even after all that, when you go to put the sheet on the bed you still find a sock.
You can search thoroughly in the fitted sheet shoved over your head to look closely and you’ll still miss the damp sock somehow.
and inside that sock is a wadded paper towel, rock hard and flaking
Sorry mom, that paper towel was rock hard and flaking before the wash too.
I think your foot might be pregnant
I’ll never understand why dryers can’t simply reverse direction several times during the cycle to prevent this from happening all the time.
I think once the clothes are trapped in the bedsheet it’s game over. I’m not sure changing directions would prevent it in the first place, unless it was literally just shaking or something close to it.
It actually does help! Many commercial grade dryers have exactly this feature and it does exactly that. You can sometimes find it at brand new laundromats and I can confirm it somehow magically stops them from wrapping into one big old ball
I’ve learned to just put the sheets in the dryer by themselves and use the sensor-dry setting (they get washed with everything else, though). They dry pretty fast just by themselves, so I don’t think it’s wasting much, if any, energy by splitting them out. Probably at least breaks even since I put the rest of the wash load on the drying rack while those are in.
Why does the largest fitted sheet not simply eat the other five?
no, it does
I feel like you might be the ruler of omicron persei 8…
I wash them separately, too, because the clothes will ball up inside and it feels like they aren’t getting washed.
Using a dryer is in itself a waste of energy.
Why are drying racks not a thing anymore? Don’t tell me everybody lives in a swamp nowadays.
I used both options. It’s worth mentioning that, depending where you live, using a drying rack indoors can cause major mold issues. The humidity needs to go somewhere.
It’s also worth noting that modern dryers are massively more efficient than the older ones. Many older dryers (at least in the UK) could run at around 2.5-3kW. my new one is down to 500W. That energy also gets dumped into the living area as heat, so isn’t wasted in the winter.
Basically, the equations are not as simple as they first appear.
I have a drying rack, and I use it too.
My washer/dryer are in the basement, so unless it’s winter when I need the humidity, it’s already humid down there so the rack’s efficacy is limited (plus, too humid, and I have to run the dehumidifier to prevent mold). Hanging clothes outside is a no-go for me because, like someone else said, birds frequently shit all over the clean laundry.
I typically pre-dry things on the rack and pop them in the dryer to fluff them up, get the last of the moisture out, and, most importantly, get any remaining dog hair off of them.
Not to mention, making such a blanket statement like that is a bit rude; you don’t know people’s life situations.
and, most importantly, get any remaining dog hair off of them.
Your dog: … rude
My cats decided that the drying rack is a playhouse and knock it over. I used to air dry my clothes outside in the summer, but then i lost that apartment and have nowhere to dry outside
I just wash and dry similar things with themselves. 🤷♂️ Sheets and such by themselves, towels by themselves. Rarely have any issues. ✨
I picture the sheet having the hangdog look of a dog that stole a steak off the cutting board.
I was in a band called Pathetically Sodden Washcloth. Mostly Trip hop, a bit of Crust punk.
I googled crust punk with a genuine thirst for knowledge, but didn’t know enough about music to understand the answer lol. On a side note, back in the 80s one time I saw a Portland band called Butt Seepage.
Thats why I stopped using dryers and just hang stuff out to dry. Also saves a lot of energy.
It’s nice to have a house, eh. Or a balcony. Or both. Or a nearby meadow. Or some electrical wiring attached between apartment buildings.
My previous apartment has none of those, just a rack in the bedroom and an open window.
Cool that you could fit a rack in your bedroom
If you can fit a bed, you can fit a drying rack. It just makes for a slightly uncomfortable sleeping position.
You mean… put the rack on top of the bed? I don’t want a wet bed.
Not for this reason anyway…
I dry stuff inside on a rack like this. I’ve got a yard, but that yard is full of birds who like to sit and shit on my clean clothes.
Sheets and towels go in the dryer though.
Fingers crossed that’s just a stock image because that wardrobe is very depressingly beige.
Often people wash clothes that are similar colour
Well yardeedard.
But that’s good though. Good for the environment and stuff. ✊
“Oh look at fancy lad with an little space in some part of their living space for temporarily drying clothes”
Lmao
Lucky you! Some of us have more laundry than square footage. For instance my spouse gets bed-bathed, so it’s a lot of washcloths and towels. And when we had babies and little kids it was much more. Plus more need for running space. In moist climates there’s also a mold issue.
Some of us have more laundry than square footage
Wash and dry them parts at a time lol
towels become so much softer in the dryer though :)
True. I prefer hard towels, so it’s not an issue for me.
Exactly. I hate that coarse air-dried towel feeling. Like sandpaper.
There are zipper “fitted” sheets that avoid this problem
Fitted sheets are garbage. Get extra large flat ones and one of those alligator clip elastic strap thingies that holds it together underneath the mattress.
That’s what garment bags are for, never have to worry about shit getting in your sheet of you jail it ahead of time.
