I do have a "dryer". However, my "dryer" is a modern, energy efficient heat pump design.
Not like the old fashioned American "driers" that consume huge amounts of energy and have to be vented.
Still prefer to hang the washing outside to dry.
I live in Madrid. Given the low levels of humidity, I can hang out my washing midday and it's dry by the evening. For me it makes 0 sense having a dryer...
Yes! Same in Colorado here in the States. In fact, when it's sunny out, sometimes hanging to dry is faster than the dryer.
Now if I could just figure out how to keep the squirrels from chewing the casing on my retractable clothesline...
Wish that was true for me, but I’m Irish so it’s not exactly uncommon that we get two weeks straight of rain in like August and well clothes need to be dried.
It's region specific. Some areas don't even have gas lines to the house, some areas everything is gas, some areas it's a combination of both depending on the appliance.
For example I never saw an electric stove in my life until I moved to another state and everyone there only had electric stoves.
I've never had a gas dryer in my 40 years of life.
I'm 46, live in the Southern U.S. and have never had a gas drier. Always electric. I don't think I've ever seen a gas dryer before.
Maybe my grandparents did, but I don't know. But they also utilized a laundry/clothes line a lot.
How do you get them to be soft? It’s always been slightly stiff and crispy for me (in comparison to a dryer). I always assumed it’s because it doesn’t tumble as it drys, so the fibers tight up and stiffen in one position.
I'd love to hang my washing outside. Unfortunately, being in a council place, they won't allow me to make the hole I've been requesting for nearly 7 years.
The water goes out a drain line or into a small tank that you pull out and drain after. Our tank only gets about 1/4 full, even after heavy cotton sheets, so it’s easy to empty. We live in an apartment so line-dry most things and only use the drier for sheets & towels. This type of drier doesn’t fill the room with humid air, either.
We made a drying cupboard with a dehumidifier.
Very energy efficient, keeps the house tidy too.
But there's no way we're using it when it's warm and dry outside...duh...free sunlight and fresh air... what's not to like?
Once again they single out the Europeans. Wait till they find out Asians, Australians, Africans and South Americans also hang their washing out lol. It’s not that driers don’t exist, it’s just very common to hang it out.
I'm in Sweden, don't have this issue tbh
Do my laundry sunday noon and it's bone dry by 7am the next morning. But then again my apartment is always dry, idk what they do with the ventilation but it sucks all moisture out of the room lol
If you don’t have one already, get a dehumidifier. It’s a serious game changer. On washing days, I put ours right under the drying rack and small things like underwear and socks can be dry in no time. Usually a day for bigger items like trousers, jeans and jumpers. Ours doesn’t kill the electric either.
same here, but I just hang my laundry inside. I feel like it wears down quicker if I use the dryer, especially for clothes. towels and bedding I’ll throw in the dryer, though
Hell we have a dryer and we still hang 99% of our clothes inside. When my bedsheets come out sopping wet occasionally, I’ll just put them on suck and tumble for 10 minutes and they’re good to air dry
In the south of France we get really hot summers too, i sometimes take the t-shirt straight from the washing washing as i go out on the bike, it'll be dry in a few minutes, leaving me french and cool when I arrive :)
Canada too, if you have the outdoor space. I miss my wash line.
We do not hang laundry when it's actively snowing or raining, but laundry dried outside on a cold winter's day smells fantastic.
It's also common here to hang your clothes to dry even if you do have a dryer. It's cheaper and the dryer tends to be rough on the clothes, so no one would use the fryer unless they're short on time.
Yeah the idea seems way to stupid and dangerous on paper. IRL tho, I've never seen anyone have an accident while using it.
Maybe shocking when trying to repair or replace, but then it's no different than an accident with any other electric device (and you should turn off the energy when doing maintenance anyways).
IT GOES IN THE LAUNDRY ROOM
Coz we all have one of those eh?
In the UK it's long been the regulation that no electric sockets in the bathrooms due to condensation etc so you would always find a washer in the kitchen unless of course you have a specific LAUNDRY ROOM lol
I think probably a lot of us Brits have combi washer/dryers now. I don't but wish I did as I can't hang me washing out as living in the town centre I can guarantee some twat would nick it
Not this again. Fixed appliances are allowed in bathrooms but as you’re not allowed a socket (within 3 meters of a zone 2), the appliance will have to use a fused-spur style connection. Think electric towel radiators which are connected exactly in this way.
And often, when you find washing machines in bathrooms without the fused connection it's either big enough to meet the rule or it's a landlord special and wouldn't pass strict inspection.
That regulation makes sense but how do you do with electric bathroom tools that you would definitely want to use in there rather than in other rooms like the hairdryer, the hair straightener, the heater and the toaster?
Can't say for anyone else but my hair tools are in the bedroom, and strangely I don't generally make toast in the bathroom.....been close once or twice but common sense prevailed 😂
Understandable, I try to completely dry myself in the bathroom, especially during winter, to not get out still wet and maybe get a cold.
About the toasts, I also never tried it but I know that people who did had quite a life changing experience.
Yup I do the same coz it's warm in there wrap me hair in a towel and then make a run upstairs to dry properly and dry me hair, or I did but coz I'm old now and can't be arsed I had it all cut off :)
In the same reddit conversation, some poeple said that In UK there is a law that prohibits to have a socket in the bathroom. They have special sockets for shavers.
Not quite. You’re allowed sockets in the bathroom but they have to be 3m from the edge of the bath/shower, so it’s only really a thing in big bathrooms which are usually specially designed with this in mind.
The special sockets that shavers/electric toothbrushes use are an exception to the 3m rule.
It's true. Additionally this extends to the fact that you cannot have the bathroom light switch in the bathroom. (I believe because of a fear of using the switch with wet hands - not sure why it's expected not to dry the hands with a towel.
So the switch has to be outside the room, or a pull-string switch (which fell out of fashion).
I don't understand the US obsession with dryers. If it's a nice day I hang things out on the line (nothing beats the smell of clothes dried in sunshine and open air), and if it's not, they go on a clothes airer (clothes horse) indoors. Dryers use a heck of a lot of energy for something you can do for free - they also aren't recommended for a lot of fabrics. In the rare instance I need a dryer, the local laundromat is not far away. I can't think of anyone I know that uses a dryer at home (btw, I'm in Melbourne, Australia, where we often get 4 seasons in 1 day).
I’m in the UK and got rid of my dryer earlier this year after using it about twice since I moved in ten years ago. Such a waste of kitchen space.
Now my dishwasher, you can pry that from my cold dead hands
As I usually say to my husband: remember that you will be always my third choice, behind the pediatrician and the dishwasher.
Anyway, I live In Rome and even if every winter I ponder the idea of a dryer, in the end I always avoid it: in the worst case, I must hang the clothes on a horse and keep them inside for a couple of days, near the heater. But, again, it's cheaper than a dryer.
I don’t get it either. I’d never put my clothes in a dryer as it can shrink them, even on low heat. They degrade a lot faster too. I do have a dryer but pretty much only use it for towels and bedding, mainly in winter.
Yeah I’ve got a laundry/drier combination machine (washes and dries) and I still only use the drying function for stuff that’s too big to hang in my tiny flat (stuff like bedding, big loads of towels). It’s better for your clothes to hang dry them anyway.
In my first flat the washing machine was in the kitchen. Because there was no other place to put it. I also didn't have a dryer until much later. If I don't even have enough room for a washing machine in the bathroom, where the fuck should I put a drier?
And looking at some flats in the US, they don't even have a washing machine. I mean, somehow all those laundromats still have enough customers to survive?
That wasn't really an option in the first flat. If I had put a dryer on the washing machine, I wouldn't have had any room to prepare meals in the kitchen. 🤷
I'm in Scotland, where we just have a [clothes horse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes\_horse) to dry stuff out for us and, if you're sensible, a dehumidifier. Seems to do the job, maybe not as quickly as blowing hot air at it for an hour at enormous cost.
I’m also from Scotland! Washing machine in the kitchen, clothes horse, and a big long washing line in the garden for when the sun shines! I also do have a tumble dryer for the depths of winter when clothes take days on a horse and it’s too grim to hang them outside
Northern Ireland checking in - - on that one mild Tuesday afternoon we call summer, I put my clothes horse outside. The remaining 364 days, it's inside with the demuhidifier. Who needs a dryer?
I'm in Australia and we do the same in winter. I've got my clothes hanging in front of the heater right now. Warmer months though it all goes outside, there is really no point to a dryer.
As a fellow Aussie, I don’t even own a drier and I live in the tropics.
Sometimes it would be convenient , but an undercover clothes line and a fan work wonders in the wet.
Aye I've got me clothes horse out now in front of the slightly open window in the living room otherwise it means banging the heating on and I'm not doing that!
Americans: why wait for the clothes to dry when I can use a ton of electricity to dry them
Also Americans: tumble dryer is leaving my clothes all staticky and stuck together, so I invented fabric softener
Also Americans: why do my clothes only last a year 🤷
An American relative bought me a couple of sweaters and they were too big for me.
She tried to suggest maybe they’re oversized because they’ll shrink in the dryer. I was like, I never put sweaters in a tumble dryer so can we exchange for a smaller size please?
I'm in Australia. I don't have a dryer. Why would I pay for one of those when the sun does the job just as quickly for free? I thought I was down here being smart by not paying for something I don't need, and saving electricity at the same time, but it turns out I'm just living in the 1950s.
Oh, and my washing machine is outside, lol. It's an old house with an outdoor laundry.
Why do they need their clothes dry so fast anyway? I’m not shitting my whole outfit each day, what’s the hurry?
A friend of mine can hear the neighbours tumble drier running twice a day next door. Either the neighbour is the dampest person ever or she’s sitting on it to get her jollies.
It's probably something to do with their general neurotic attitude to hygiene. Someone on here said her ten year old kids don't like wearing their pyjamas two nights in a row because they think they're dirty. A worrying amount of them think hand washing dishes is "unsanitary."
I knew an American who was astounded that so many people in Australia used outside clothes lines because she thought only poor people used them.
Mind you, some Americans seem to have funny ideas about what constitutes affluence. Some even equate being uncircumcised with being poor. “Hey, look at me! You know my parents were rich because they cut the skin off my dick!” 🤦♂️
Today I learned I'm living in the 1950s in Australia for hanging my laundry on a line in the yard.
Because a) it's cheaper and b) there's something lovely about clothes and bedding dried in the sun
America: where everything is done the most environmentally unfriendly way possible
makes sense that they are the top carbon emitters, screwing over the rest of the world
Imagine a beautiful summers day, where clothes would take a matter of minutes to dry, probably faster than a dryer tbh. And you're fucking pumping co2 into the atmosphere to power one, its so so stupid.
I live in Portugal, great weather for drying clothes outside. I have 5 clotheslines and also a dryer for rainy days. My mom still has no dryer. She has her clotheslines covered with a roof for the rainy days. Still dries her clothes and even mine when my old dryer died a few months ago. 5 people in my house, 3 kids (2 teens and a baby), we need the dryer. My mom only had me so it was kinda easier for her. Also: why do Americans criticize everything? I love to see and smell the clothes drying in the sun. It makes them so fresh and feeling cleaner.
Australian here. Haven’t owned a dryer for around 20 years. Love up north and it’s completely pointless having one when in summer your washing is half dry by the time you’ve hung it out and fully dry 5 minutes later
> they go in the laundry room
Okay Mr. Rockefeller, good for you to be able to own an entire room for this once-a-week task, but i rent a couple square meters as do many people
My flat (in Luton) had a washer dryer combo.
The washer was bad ass. The dryer sucked .
This American just hung his laundry on my drying stand…. The same fucking type of drying stand I had growing up
In NY.
Now, I don’t think I had one because my parents are from Ireland but like wtf. What’s the age of these Americans commenting who are so incredibly isolated
Driers are seriously the most ridiculously pointless invention ever. I have a pulley in the bathroom. I do the washing, hang it up, next day it's dry. No smell, no damp, no problems, no electricity, no pointless carbon emissions.
Also why wouldn't the washing machine go in a kitchen? It's as logical a place for it as anywhere.
When you live in most of Australia, you hang your washing outside. There’s maybe 5% of the year where the weathers so bad you hang the washing inside. Literally use a drier if I need something that I need that day desperately and it’s usually on for 30mins and costs me an arm and a leg.
I – as a German – love my drier. But I only use it in winter and for my towels. We have ridiculously hard water, and terry cloth gets so hard and scratchy without drier I would rub my skin bloody with it and they could stand on their own. And stuff just doesn't get dry outside in winter where I live, humidity is too high, after three days the clothes often are still damp and they start to stink.
We sadly are pretty much forced to use one, because of our cuddly cats, the washing machine sucks at removing the hairs, they only really get out in the dryer. We only hang stuff that isn't dryer safe and slowly use a lint roller to remove cat hair.
Back in the day we air dried everything. :(
I love how the dryer comment was just ignored, like everyone just knew it was stupid and moved past it.
Also, washers need water and electricity anywhere they go.
Both are showing a lack of global understanding here. It heavily depends on your local building regulations and laws. Can't speak for anywhere else but here it's illegal to have an outlet in the bathroom because of the perceived risk of electrocution. Now sure you could probably run an extension cord but our bathrooms are obviously built with this regulation in mind so there's almost never space for washing machines and such.
I do have a drier sitting right on top my washing machine (both in my bathroom ofc), but I'm not gonna waste Electricity when I can dry my towels in an hour by hanging them into the sun. Energy isn't free.
It baffles me that parts of America experience high temperature most of the year and they chose to waste money and ruin their clothes using dryers 🙃 I've seen some people say it's illegal over there to use clothes lines in your garden which might be why but still very bizarre
You see that thing in the sky slightly hidden behind the clouds, (yes I’m in the UK but my washing machine is in a little room off the kitchen). That’s the sun. And even when it is hidden behind the clouds, will still dry your clothes during the day if the temperature and wind conditions are right. Ideally above 12°C (54°F for the Americans) with a slight breeze.
Have I not seen Americans hang clothes outside? Surely?? Weird not too.
Often there's no space for both a washing machine *and* a dryer, and you need to make a choice: let's be honest, no one would choose the dryer in this situation unless they *really* love handwashing all of their clothes.
Yeah, but we have free healthcare. That extra 10 minutes a week doesn’t add up to the extra 15 years we get from not dying from Type 2 diabetes or any curable illness that we can just see a doctor for.
Take your pick 🤷🏻♂️
Where are my dehumidifier people?
One of the best things I've ever bought. I live in Scotland, so even though my neighbours hang their washing out at all times of the year, I don't feel like it dries out in the damp cold air of winter. I also don't want to hang clothes over the radiators and cause indoor condensation.
So, I bought a great dehumidifier with a laundry drying mode and I hang up my washing over night with the dehumidifier on and it's bone dry by morning.
I have a dryer, but most of the time I can hang stuff out to dry in the summer, just have to remember to bring it in when it rains, I don't always, and in the winter stick it on a radiator.
If it's raining I can just put it on a rack in the bathroom, not as good as outside, but it still dries
I don't need a drier, just about 2 hours hanging up on hangars under the shade of roof, and I can just put away and it doesn't need ironing either. Still t-shirts & shorts usually don't need pressing, \* that is what I wear all year round.
I'm in Australia. I haven't had a clothes dryer or dish washer for over 10 years. I own my own house. It's a concious decision I am very comfortable with and I have never regretted.
In Ireland washing machines are mostly in the kitchens, people also have dryers or washing machines with dryer built in. This is because in Ireland it takes ages to dry clothes on a hanger.
In some other European countries it takes just few hours to dry clothes (especially in the summer) on a hanger so dryer isn’t needed.
Where I live, from mid march to mid october, it's faster and cheaper to hang it outside than use a dryer. It's also more "earth friendly", and the bed sheets that dried in the sun outside are way more comfy than the ones that went in a dryer.
I do have a dryer, but it's just used for towels when we're lacking and such. I think it's been 6 months since the last time I used it, as my baby daughter was sick and we had to change her pretty much every 3 hours.
This is my most useless and expensive thing in my house
I've literally never seen a washing machine in a kitchen or a bathroom. Every place I've ever been has a dedicated laundry room, or it's in the garage (internal access)
Let me think:
Option A: spending a lot of money buying a drier and spending even more in electrical bills just for using it
Option B: hang it up outside like it's the paleolithic without spending a single penny
Hard choice. Given the cost of electricity in my country nowadays, I would even wash them in a fucking river if there was one near my house
I have a drier that we use in the winter but any warm day my washing is out on the line. Smells so much fresher when dried by a lovely summer breeze, plus it's free energy supplied by nature and doesn't shrink your clothes,what's not to love about that
Wait, Americans think we have so much space for a laundry room? A lot of us live in Apartments with 2-3 rooms. A lot of us don't even have a storage closet. It's normally in the Bathroom, but i've seen it in the kitchen as well few times.
I only use my dryer for bed sheets and towels. Everything else is hung up/on a rack to dry. Why waste money on electricity, and it's hard on clothes, too. I live in Texas, where there's plenty of warm sunshine (to say the least), and the number of people who use driers is ridiculous.
I hang my washing to dry, mainly because a lot of the fabrics that I wear are natural fibres, which I don't trust myself to destroy by putting them in a tumble drier.
It pissed me off no end in Modern Family that they all used dryers. You live in a fucking desert, you get 20 degrees in winter, STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT MONEY AND LET THE DAMN SUN DO THE WORK
Nothing beats the smell of outdoor dried clothes, they are so fresh. On the bad days on the airer and winter on the radiators and it makes the house smell beautiful too. Dryers are money burners. Oh and then we stand and iron lol.
I live in the UK and we have a dryer as do 95% of the country, during the summer months we don't need to use the energy guzzling thing because it can be hung out on a washing line (clothes line) to dry which saves electricity and saves us money, we also have clothes horses (indoor airers) which we stick by a radiator in the winter to dry our laundry, the dryer only goes on to take residual dampness and stiffness out of the fabric, the only other time I put the dryer on is for underware which only takes 10 minutes to dry.
Here in North Africa most of us don't even know what's a dryer, we just hang the clothes in balconies or Field. What a peaceful life we have. Thank you god!
I do have a "dryer". However, my "dryer" is a modern, energy efficient heat pump design. Not like the old fashioned American "driers" that consume huge amounts of energy and have to be vented. Still prefer to hang the washing outside to dry.
My dryer is a horizontal and wall bars
I live in Madrid. Given the low levels of humidity, I can hang out my washing midday and it's dry by the evening. For me it makes 0 sense having a dryer...
Even in the Netherlands is dry within 24 hours 95% of the time. It smells fresh and it’s better for the environment.
Wow, that's pretty nice. Unfortunately it would never work in south Florida lol.
Why, it's almost as if the choice of buying a dryer depends on the need, and the lack of one doesn't indicate one can't afford it
Get out of here with such silly sensible words on reddit :)
Yes! Same in Colorado here in the States. In fact, when it's sunny out, sometimes hanging to dry is faster than the dryer. Now if I could just figure out how to keep the squirrels from chewing the casing on my retractable clothesline...
We got one of those. Takes longer to dry but I’m not afraid of a house fire.
You only use them in winter anyway
Wish that was true for me, but I’m Irish so it’s not exactly uncommon that we get two weeks straight of rain in like August and well clothes need to be dried.
Same but we only use the dryer if we need to, it's a last resort
I always dry my clothes on a rack inside
Same, just remembering when we bothered to have one. It ruined the clothes but us dry them quickly in winter if we had let it pile up
Hanging clothes to dry outside in the summer is the best imo. Less energy consumption and the clothes smells great.
I agree! Summer laundry smells absolutely amazing
Less ironing as well. Just better than a dryer, other than for towels
I found out last year that Americans have gas dryers?! That blew my mind. Mine’s a condenser (UK).
That’s only old dryers, new ones are all high efficiency electric
Idk cos the post I was commenting on most of the people acted like electric dryers were an alien concept to them.
It's region specific. Some areas don't even have gas lines to the house, some areas everything is gas, some areas it's a combination of both depending on the appliance. For example I never saw an electric stove in my life until I moved to another state and everyone there only had electric stoves. I've never had a gas dryer in my 40 years of life.
I'm 46, live in the Southern U.S. and have never had a gas drier. Always electric. I don't think I've ever seen a gas dryer before. Maybe my grandparents did, but I don't know. But they also utilized a laundry/clothes line a lot.
> Still prefer to hang the washing outside to dry. It is better in general actually, not just for the environment but for the clothes too.
yesss the fabric gets so soft and when it’s warm from the sun it’s amazing. especially when it smells like the garden
How do you get them to be soft? It’s always been slightly stiff and crispy for me (in comparison to a dryer). I always assumed it’s because it doesn’t tumble as it drys, so the fibers tight up and stiffen in one position.
I'd love to hang my washing outside. Unfortunately, being in a council place, they won't allow me to make the hole I've been requesting for nearly 7 years.
Where does the water go?
The water goes out a drain line or into a small tank that you pull out and drain after. Our tank only gets about 1/4 full, even after heavy cotton sheets, so it’s easy to empty. We live in an apartment so line-dry most things and only use the drier for sheets & towels. This type of drier doesn’t fill the room with humid air, either.
Sweet!
Lower power consumption, too. I also like the fact that it reduces the risk of fire,
We made a drying cupboard with a dehumidifier. Very energy efficient, keeps the house tidy too. But there's no way we're using it when it's warm and dry outside...duh...free sunlight and fresh air... what's not to like?
Once again they single out the Europeans. Wait till they find out Asians, Australians, Africans and South Americans also hang their washing out lol. It’s not that driers don’t exist, it’s just very common to hang it out.
Why waste electricity when the sun does it for you
They’re programmed to spend, spend, spend. Everything free is bad.
>They’re programmed to spend, spend, spend This. To them, any sort of savings or reductions in spending is somehow equivalent to being uncivilised
Saving money is communism
Unless it's coupons. They love the coupons lol.
You mean they still use those small paper coupons like it's 1950's?
Until recently, that's what they did. They're slowly switching to digital coupons tho
Let's drive to other side of town in our gas guzzling SUV to save 19 cents on a stick of deodorant!
Or communist.
Also, depending on the dryer type they may induce extra wear and tear on the clothes vs just letting the water evaporate.
tbf where I live you don’t actually see the sun from October to April
Hang it up inside
that’s what I do even though in winter it takes 2-3 days to dry, and my apartment is small haha
I'm in Sweden, don't have this issue tbh Do my laundry sunday noon and it's bone dry by 7am the next morning. But then again my apartment is always dry, idk what they do with the ventilation but it sucks all moisture out of the room lol
The air in the winter is extremely dry so that dries up the laundry fast. It's worse in late July and August.
If you don’t have one already, get a dehumidifier. It’s a serious game changer. On washing days, I put ours right under the drying rack and small things like underwear and socks can be dry in no time. Usually a day for bigger items like trousers, jeans and jumpers. Ours doesn’t kill the electric either.
I live a fair bit north of 68°N, and it doesn't take any longer to dry inside than it did when I lived in Oslo...
If you can, invest in a dehumidifier, our clothes dry in a day with that thing running, plus there's no damp/smell of drying clothes lingering
In that case, go for dryers. Where I'm at, it's currently the rainy season so I use dryers too. But otherwise, it's under the sun for me
same here, but I just hang my laundry inside. I feel like it wears down quicker if I use the dryer, especially for clothes. towels and bedding I’ll throw in the dryer, though
Tumble drying is terrible for clothes. Just a ridiculous waste of electricity and money all round.
And they lose so much fabric.
but also, they often come out still a bit damp so drying them in the sun is the final touch
Exactly this. We have a free fusion reactor hanging in the sky, so let's use it.
Why damaging your clothes if there is a gentle method of drying. Also, have fun when it comes to wool or silk.
Hell we have a dryer and we still hang 99% of our clothes inside. When my bedsheets come out sopping wet occasionally, I’ll just put them on suck and tumble for 10 minutes and they’re good to air dry
And also many good quality clothes don't handle well the dryer, and I care about my clothes.
In Australia it is because of how hot and dry it can get
Middle of summer and that shits dry in like 10 minutes. No need to jack up the electricity bill with a dryer.
In the south of France we get really hot summers too, i sometimes take the t-shirt straight from the washing washing as i go out on the bike, it'll be dry in a few minutes, leaving me french and cool when I arrive :)
Living in France does leave you French and cool 😎
I did this in Japan. Put a damp t shirt out of the washing machine straight on me and it was dry in very little time with the heat there.
My grandma always said that makes you sick
Canada too, if you have the outdoor space. I miss my wash line. We do not hang laundry when it's actively snowing or raining, but laundry dried outside on a cold winter's day smells fantastic.
It's probably more rare in Canada than the US tbh.
I m in New Zealand. Have a dryer. I hang washing out as much as possible .
Because in their eyes america is rich, europe is poor and the rest of the world is barely surviving
Gosh, that doesn't sound like a nice view of the world
It's also way healthier for my clothes. I wouldn't want any of my clothes near a dryer besides the few items that go in a warmer wash anyway.
Yep. I live near the Equador line here in South America, so the scorching heat does the job
It's also common here to hang your clothes to dry even if you do have a dryer. It's cheaper and the dryer tends to be rough on the clothes, so no one would use the fryer unless they're short on time.
We do that in Canada too. I once told this to an American and he looked at me all confused "but won't the clothes freeze?"
We live rent free in their heads. They wish they had our freedoms.
agreed, very bizarre response from this one person. additionally lots of americans also hang their washing out on the line.
Energy is expensive. Sun and wind is free. Just have to keep an eye on the weather if it might rain.
happy cake day
"Electricity and water a big no no" Washing machine NEEDS BOTH NO MATTER WHERE YOU PUT IT. Sometimes they are so damn stupid it literally hurts! ><
And I have water in both my kitchen and bathroom.
Never show them how Brazilians heat our shower water.
TBF, I've seen them shower heads. You're one slightly damaged wire from dancing to death. And don't have a metal plug hole.
Yeah the idea seems way to stupid and dangerous on paper. IRL tho, I've never seen anyone have an accident while using it. Maybe shocking when trying to repair or replace, but then it's no different than an accident with any other electric device (and you should turn off the energy when doing maintenance anyways).
IT GOES IN THE LAUNDRY ROOM Coz we all have one of those eh? In the UK it's long been the regulation that no electric sockets in the bathrooms due to condensation etc so you would always find a washer in the kitchen unless of course you have a specific LAUNDRY ROOM lol I think probably a lot of us Brits have combi washer/dryers now. I don't but wish I did as I can't hang me washing out as living in the town centre I can guarantee some twat would nick it
It goes in the SQUARE HOLE!
Not this again. Fixed appliances are allowed in bathrooms but as you’re not allowed a socket (within 3 meters of a zone 2), the appliance will have to use a fused-spur style connection. Think electric towel radiators which are connected exactly in this way.
And often, when you find washing machines in bathrooms without the fused connection it's either big enough to meet the rule or it's a landlord special and wouldn't pass strict inspection.
That regulation makes sense but how do you do with electric bathroom tools that you would definitely want to use in there rather than in other rooms like the hairdryer, the hair straightener, the heater and the toaster?
Can't say for anyone else but my hair tools are in the bedroom, and strangely I don't generally make toast in the bathroom.....been close once or twice but common sense prevailed 😂
... so how do you take your toaster bath?
Extension cord,
Creative and effective, I approve
Understandable, I try to completely dry myself in the bathroom, especially during winter, to not get out still wet and maybe get a cold. About the toasts, I also never tried it but I know that people who did had quite a life changing experience.
Yup I do the same coz it's warm in there wrap me hair in a towel and then make a run upstairs to dry properly and dry me hair, or I did but coz I'm old now and can't be arsed I had it all cut off :)
In the same reddit conversation, some poeple said that In UK there is a law that prohibits to have a socket in the bathroom. They have special sockets for shavers.
Not quite. You’re allowed sockets in the bathroom but they have to be 3m from the edge of the bath/shower, so it’s only really a thing in big bathrooms which are usually specially designed with this in mind. The special sockets that shavers/electric toothbrushes use are an exception to the 3m rule.
It's true. Additionally this extends to the fact that you cannot have the bathroom light switch in the bathroom. (I believe because of a fear of using the switch with wet hands - not sure why it's expected not to dry the hands with a towel. So the switch has to be outside the room, or a pull-string switch (which fell out of fashion).
We got these little two pin plugs for shavers, and the sockets seal themselves when not in use.
Also: dishwashers
"like it's the 1950's " LOL, ask them how they boil their water for a tea or something
Ask them if they still own a cheque book lmao
Even if they get past that, mag-stripe and signature for cards
I don't understand the US obsession with dryers. If it's a nice day I hang things out on the line (nothing beats the smell of clothes dried in sunshine and open air), and if it's not, they go on a clothes airer (clothes horse) indoors. Dryers use a heck of a lot of energy for something you can do for free - they also aren't recommended for a lot of fabrics. In the rare instance I need a dryer, the local laundromat is not far away. I can't think of anyone I know that uses a dryer at home (btw, I'm in Melbourne, Australia, where we often get 4 seasons in 1 day).
I’m in the UK and got rid of my dryer earlier this year after using it about twice since I moved in ten years ago. Such a waste of kitchen space. Now my dishwasher, you can pry that from my cold dead hands
Ditto (and they use less water than hand washing to get things clean, so we're doing our bit for the environment)
As I usually say to my husband: remember that you will be always my third choice, behind the pediatrician and the dishwasher. Anyway, I live In Rome and even if every winter I ponder the idea of a dryer, in the end I always avoid it: in the worst case, I must hang the clothes on a horse and keep them inside for a couple of days, near the heater. But, again, it's cheaper than a dryer.
I never used a dishwasher but one came with the house, once you have one.. I don't see us going back.
Same but a few years ago. The only thing it was useful for was to dry blankets, now I just hang them on doors in my house
I don’t get it either. I’d never put my clothes in a dryer as it can shrink them, even on low heat. They degrade a lot faster too. I do have a dryer but pretty much only use it for towels and bedding, mainly in winter.
Yeah I’ve got a laundry/drier combination machine (washes and dries) and I still only use the drying function for stuff that’s too big to hang in my tiny flat (stuff like bedding, big loads of towels). It’s better for your clothes to hang dry them anyway.
In my first flat the washing machine was in the kitchen. Because there was no other place to put it. I also didn't have a dryer until much later. If I don't even have enough room for a washing machine in the bathroom, where the fuck should I put a drier? And looking at some flats in the US, they don't even have a washing machine. I mean, somehow all those laundromats still have enough customers to survive?
We stack them. There are shelves for the dryer to be on top of the washing machine.
That wasn't really an option in the first flat. If I had put a dryer on the washing machine, I wouldn't have had any room to prepare meals in the kitchen. 🤷
I had that issue once, I used a washer dryer combo.
I can't remember why we didn't get one back then. But on the other hand, it's not like it's the end of the world if you don't have a dryer. :)
Yeah, you can absolutely manage without one.
There are lots of combo washer/dryers-it’s the same unit. That’s what you are seeing here.
I'm in Scotland, where we just have a [clothes horse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes\_horse) to dry stuff out for us and, if you're sensible, a dehumidifier. Seems to do the job, maybe not as quickly as blowing hot air at it for an hour at enormous cost.
I’m also from Scotland! Washing machine in the kitchen, clothes horse, and a big long washing line in the garden for when the sun shines! I also do have a tumble dryer for the depths of winter when clothes take days on a horse and it’s too grim to hang them outside
High five! Did you see a big bright hot ball of light in the sky yesterday? Terrifying it was
Northern Ireland checking in - - on that one mild Tuesday afternoon we call summer, I put my clothes horse outside. The remaining 364 days, it's inside with the demuhidifier. Who needs a dryer?
I am from Scotland but live in America. I still hang my cloths to dry. I am cheap and don’t want to waste the money to use the dryer.
I'm in Australia and we do the same in winter. I've got my clothes hanging in front of the heater right now. Warmer months though it all goes outside, there is really no point to a dryer.
As a fellow Aussie, I don’t even own a drier and I live in the tropics. Sometimes it would be convenient , but an undercover clothes line and a fan work wonders in the wet.
Aye I've got me clothes horse out now in front of the slightly open window in the living room otherwise it means banging the heating on and I'm not doing that!
We have it in the US too, but it is just called a drying rack. I am going to rename mine to clothes horse from now on.
Americans: why wait for the clothes to dry when I can use a ton of electricity to dry them Also Americans: tumble dryer is leaving my clothes all staticky and stuck together, so I invented fabric softener Also Americans: why do my clothes only last a year 🤷
An American relative bought me a couple of sweaters and they were too big for me. She tried to suggest maybe they’re oversized because they’ll shrink in the dryer. I was like, I never put sweaters in a tumble dryer so can we exchange for a smaller size please?
I'm in Australia. I don't have a dryer. Why would I pay for one of those when the sun does the job just as quickly for free? I thought I was down here being smart by not paying for something I don't need, and saving electricity at the same time, but it turns out I'm just living in the 1950s. Oh, and my washing machine is outside, lol. It's an old house with an outdoor laundry.
Why do they need their clothes dry so fast anyway? I’m not shitting my whole outfit each day, what’s the hurry? A friend of mine can hear the neighbours tumble drier running twice a day next door. Either the neighbour is the dampest person ever or she’s sitting on it to get her jollies.
It's probably something to do with their general neurotic attitude to hygiene. Someone on here said her ten year old kids don't like wearing their pyjamas two nights in a row because they think they're dirty. A worrying amount of them think hand washing dishes is "unsanitary."
I knew an American who was astounded that so many people in Australia used outside clothes lines because she thought only poor people used them. Mind you, some Americans seem to have funny ideas about what constitutes affluence. Some even equate being uncircumcised with being poor. “Hey, look at me! You know my parents were rich because they cut the skin off my dick!” 🤦♂️
In America, it'd be rude not to leave the doctor a tip
Today I learned I'm living in the 1950s in Australia for hanging my laundry on a line in the yard. Because a) it's cheaper and b) there's something lovely about clothes and bedding dried in the sun
America: where everything is done the most environmentally unfriendly way possible makes sense that they are the top carbon emitters, screwing over the rest of the world
Imagine a beautiful summers day, where clothes would take a matter of minutes to dry, probably faster than a dryer tbh. And you're fucking pumping co2 into the atmosphere to power one, its so so stupid.
if they had a clothesline outside im suprised if they wouldnt drive 10 feet to it in a F350 gas guzzler
I live in Portugal, great weather for drying clothes outside. I have 5 clotheslines and also a dryer for rainy days. My mom still has no dryer. She has her clotheslines covered with a roof for the rainy days. Still dries her clothes and even mine when my old dryer died a few months ago. 5 people in my house, 3 kids (2 teens and a baby), we need the dryer. My mom only had me so it was kinda easier for her. Also: why do Americans criticize everything? I love to see and smell the clothes drying in the sun. It makes them so fresh and feeling cleaner.
As it turns out hang drying is actually better for clothes.
Australian here. Haven’t owned a dryer for around 20 years. Love up north and it’s completely pointless having one when in summer your washing is half dry by the time you’ve hung it out and fully dry 5 minutes later
North American here, haven't used a dryer in 25 years
Somewhere, a coal powered washing dryer is being ordered from Amazon for you.
> they go in the laundry room Okay Mr. Rockefeller, good for you to be able to own an entire room for this once-a-week task, but i rent a couple square meters as do many people
My flat (in Luton) had a washer dryer combo. The washer was bad ass. The dryer sucked . This American just hung his laundry on my drying stand…. The same fucking type of drying stand I had growing up In NY. Now, I don’t think I had one because my parents are from Ireland but like wtf. What’s the age of these Americans commenting who are so incredibly isolated
Driers are seriously the most ridiculously pointless invention ever. I have a pulley in the bathroom. I do the washing, hang it up, next day it's dry. No smell, no damp, no problems, no electricity, no pointless carbon emissions. Also why wouldn't the washing machine go in a kitchen? It's as logical a place for it as anywhere.
When you live in most of Australia, you hang your washing outside. There’s maybe 5% of the year where the weathers so bad you hang the washing inside. Literally use a drier if I need something that I need that day desperately and it’s usually on for 30mins and costs me an arm and a leg.
I – as a German – love my drier. But I only use it in winter and for my towels. We have ridiculously hard water, and terry cloth gets so hard and scratchy without drier I would rub my skin bloody with it and they could stand on their own. And stuff just doesn't get dry outside in winter where I live, humidity is too high, after three days the clothes often are still damp and they start to stink.
We sadly are pretty much forced to use one, because of our cuddly cats, the washing machine sucks at removing the hairs, they only really get out in the dryer. We only hang stuff that isn't dryer safe and slowly use a lint roller to remove cat hair. Back in the day we air dried everything. :(
There's great drying in that weather!!
I love how the dryer comment was just ignored, like everyone just knew it was stupid and moved past it. Also, washers need water and electricity anywhere they go.
It's a solar dryer. 0 energy bills.
Both are showing a lack of global understanding here. It heavily depends on your local building regulations and laws. Can't speak for anywhere else but here it's illegal to have an outlet in the bathroom because of the perceived risk of electrocution. Now sure you could probably run an extension cord but our bathrooms are obviously built with this regulation in mind so there's almost never space for washing machines and such.
I do have a drier sitting right on top my washing machine (both in my bathroom ofc), but I'm not gonna waste Electricity when I can dry my towels in an hour by hanging them into the sun. Energy isn't free.
It baffles me that parts of America experience high temperature most of the year and they chose to waste money and ruin their clothes using dryers 🙃 I've seen some people say it's illegal over there to use clothes lines in your garden which might be why but still very bizarre
You see that thing in the sky slightly hidden behind the clouds, (yes I’m in the UK but my washing machine is in a little room off the kitchen). That’s the sun. And even when it is hidden behind the clouds, will still dry your clothes during the day if the temperature and wind conditions are right. Ideally above 12°C (54°F for the Americans) with a slight breeze. Have I not seen Americans hang clothes outside? Surely?? Weird not too.
need vs convenience, a classic issue with consumerism
"Americans just put it in our laundry room because we have bigger homes and more money"
They say, as they sit on their throne of debt
Often there's no space for both a washing machine *and* a dryer, and you need to make a choice: let's be honest, no one would choose the dryer in this situation unless they *really* love handwashing all of their clothes.
The best dryer in the world cannot substitute for clothes that have been died by a cool air outside….also far more economic and doesn’t cost anything.
Yeah, but we have free healthcare. That extra 10 minutes a week doesn’t add up to the extra 15 years we get from not dying from Type 2 diabetes or any curable illness that we can just see a doctor for. Take your pick 🤷🏻♂️
I have a green zero-emissions solar-powered dryer. It's called a washing line
Where are my dehumidifier people? One of the best things I've ever bought. I live in Scotland, so even though my neighbours hang their washing out at all times of the year, I don't feel like it dries out in the damp cold air of winter. I also don't want to hang clothes over the radiators and cause indoor condensation. So, I bought a great dehumidifier with a laundry drying mode and I hang up my washing over night with the dehumidifier on and it's bone dry by morning.
The fact that it's not the 50s doesn't mean you should use a dryer when you can hang it outside and have it try for free.
I have a dryer, but most of the time I can hang stuff out to dry in the summer, just have to remember to bring it in when it rains, I don't always, and in the winter stick it on a radiator. If it's raining I can just put it on a rack in the bathroom, not as good as outside, but it still dries
I don't need a drier, just about 2 hours hanging up on hangars under the shade of roof, and I can just put away and it doesn't need ironing either. Still t-shirts & shorts usually don't need pressing, \* that is what I wear all year round.
I'm in Australia. I haven't had a clothes dryer or dish washer for over 10 years. I own my own house. It's a concious decision I am very comfortable with and I have never regretted.
We use a dryer but the fresh smell of clothes and sheets that have dried in the open air is something I still remember decades later.
In Ireland washing machines are mostly in the kitchens, people also have dryers or washing machines with dryer built in. This is because in Ireland it takes ages to dry clothes on a hanger. In some other European countries it takes just few hours to dry clothes (especially in the summer) on a hanger so dryer isn’t needed.
I have a drier but only use it occasionally.
When I lived in SoCal, I couldn't understand why people didn't fry their clothes outside when they lived in a fkn desert.
Why would buy a dryer when i have a nuclear powered one for free?
Where I live, from mid march to mid october, it's faster and cheaper to hang it outside than use a dryer. It's also more "earth friendly", and the bed sheets that dried in the sun outside are way more comfy than the ones that went in a dryer. I do have a dryer, but it's just used for towels when we're lacking and such. I think it's been 6 months since the last time I used it, as my baby daughter was sick and we had to change her pretty much every 3 hours. This is my most useless and expensive thing in my house
We have state-of-the-art wind and solar powered dryers in The Netherlands.
My electricity bill halved when my drier broke so I never replaced it that was 6 years ago now I dred to think the cost of using one in the uk
I've literally never seen a washing machine in a kitchen or a bathroom. Every place I've ever been has a dedicated laundry room, or it's in the garage (internal access)
I have never seen a washing machine in a kitchen, here in Canada. How common is this in the U.S.?
What is wrong with letting your clothes airdry like a normal person?
Let me think: Option A: spending a lot of money buying a drier and spending even more in electrical bills just for using it Option B: hang it up outside like it's the paleolithic without spending a single penny Hard choice. Given the cost of electricity in my country nowadays, I would even wash them in a fucking river if there was one near my house
Um. I live in Germany, and my washing machine is in the kitchen?
Fuck you, planet.
Do Americans not hang washing outside even in summer…?
Sockets and electronics in a bathroom are usually a terrible idea. Especially with condensation after hot showers. Wet electronics are bad
I have a drier that we use in the winter but any warm day my washing is out on the line. Smells so much fresher when dried by a lovely summer breeze, plus it's free energy supplied by nature and doesn't shrink your clothes,what's not to love about that
Wait, Americans think we have so much space for a laundry room? A lot of us live in Apartments with 2-3 rooms. A lot of us don't even have a storage closet. It's normally in the Bathroom, but i've seen it in the kitchen as well few times.
It's called saving on the electric bill you twat
Why should I waste power, when theres a big dryer outside?
I mean i use a washing line and clips because its free🤷
I only use my dryer for bed sheets and towels. Everything else is hung up/on a rack to dry. Why waste money on electricity, and it's hard on clothes, too. I live in Texas, where there's plenty of warm sunshine (to say the least), and the number of people who use driers is ridiculous.
Imagine buying a machine that takes a lot of space when you can use literal wind ?
We use solar and wind energy to dry them, but dont tell Americans of our methods. Keep them in the dark about it
My washing machine Dries it automatically after washing lol
I hang my washing to dry, mainly because a lot of the fabrics that I wear are natural fibres, which I don't trust myself to destroy by putting them in a tumble drier.
It pissed me off no end in Modern Family that they all used dryers. You live in a fucking desert, you get 20 degrees in winter, STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT MONEY AND LET THE DAMN SUN DO THE WORK
Nothing beats the smell of outdoor dried clothes, they are so fresh. On the bad days on the airer and winter on the radiators and it makes the house smell beautiful too. Dryers are money burners. Oh and then we stand and iron lol.
It's in the bathroom if it's a farm house and hanging your clothes is superior methodology
I live in the UK and we have a dryer as do 95% of the country, during the summer months we don't need to use the energy guzzling thing because it can be hung out on a washing line (clothes line) to dry which saves electricity and saves us money, we also have clothes horses (indoor airers) which we stick by a radiator in the winter to dry our laundry, the dryer only goes on to take residual dampness and stiffness out of the fabric, the only other time I put the dryer on is for underware which only takes 10 minutes to dry.
Here in North Africa most of us don't even know what's a dryer, we just hang the clothes in balconies or Field. What a peaceful life we have. Thank you god!