line drying your darks?
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
United States
May 22, 2012 9:06am CST
The weather is quite pleasant out and I try to line dry as much as I can. Though I have a problem... with my washer my darks do come out with a bit of lint on them not severe but noticable.Do you guys think if I line dryed them and then ran them in the dryer on fluff if the lint would still come off? or am I best to just keep drying them from the get-go?
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@nikki3 (172)
• United States
22 May 12
It may work! Do you wash the dark towels with your dark clothes. I know in a hurry I have done this and many times I wish I had not done so do to my darks getting lint on them. You can also use a lint brush or take a wet wash cloth and brush the lint off that way.
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
22 May 12
Not usually. If anything I put things that I'd put in the dryer like socks and underwear.
I just don't want to pay the power company any more than I have to, I have to work hard like everyone else does for their money and darn it I'd like to keep as much of it as I can for my use not bills. KWIM?
@nikki3 (172)
• United States
22 May 12
I understand how you feel when it comes to bills. Boy do we all have a lot of them. I am the same way. I like to line dry my clothes too. I love the smell of the outdoors and line drying clothes make them seem so much fresher. you know you can also use white vinegar and add it to your rinse cycle instead of adding softner It will remove the lint.
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
22 May 12
We have plenty of bills and such here as well... drowning mostly. But that's how life is til my youngest can go to school and I can get a full time job instead of a part time one.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
22 May 12
Ok now I forgot to ask if it's better to fluff before you line dry or after they are dry?
The previous poster said that about the vinegar too.
I didn't have a problem with lint until I got this particular washer.
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@lynboobsy11 (11343)
• Philippines
24 May 12
We usually line dry our clothes here, drier machines are too expensive here in my country only few can afford this. We used spinner just to extract additional water from the clothes and then we hang it on line. I think you might spin a little bit and hang it to line dry.
@jillhill (37353)
• United States
22 May 12
If you did toss them in the dryer for just a few minutes it should get the lint off. I would love to dry clothes on a clothes line....I used to do it all the time but my clothes line came down because it was old.....now since it's just me I dry them. It's quicker and easier.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
25 May 12
I really don't like to line dry around here because there are a lot of trees and that means that there are a lot of birds. So, if I was to line dry a lot, I would also end up rewashing a lot of my laundry.
But, if there was some lint on my things, I think that I would just pop them in the dryer for a few minutes and that would be enough to pull the lint off of the clothes that I'd already washed and had dry.
@saundyl (9783)
• Canada
22 May 12
I tend to line dry a lot of my darks and all of my lights. If there's a ton of lint on something i notice...or i have towels i do tend to toss them in the dryer to remove the lint *i hate stiff towels. Line drying and then spritzing with a spray bottle and running through the dryer for 10 minutes before wearing the item works for me as well.
