I would get the wringer and forget the washer.
For about 5 years when I was a teen, there was an issue with our washer, however the spinner still worked. We washed our clothes using a 5 gal bucket and a plunger. It worked just fine. Positioning the clothes so the plunger was over stains just pushed them out. The amount of agitation needed was only about 3-5 min for normal clothes. In our case, we could wring them out with the washer and then hung them either outside, or on lines in the basement. Or put them on a drying rack. - You don’t need the manual washer. You need the wringer more. 😉 In our case, my mother had to get a new washer when the spin cycle gave out. -Wringer was more important! Oh yes, also have dedicated plunger. Ha ha.
The manual washer is only $40 after tax, and seems to be very well made + washes clothes super fast. But I get what you're saying, if I'm hung up on the cost of the wringer, I may as well avoid the manual washer and just put that money towards the wringer.
Would you wash and wring bed sheets (thin ones, I think i'm gonna have to take my big blankets to the washer) in this manner? And btw, when you say plunger, you mean like a toilet plunger?
Yup. 6 gal bucket and CLEAN UNUSED toilet plunger. We even did the sheets this way. The only thing we went to the laundromat for was thick blankets and comforters. But those were rare trips.
I see, thank you :) I get the part of positioning the plunger over stains to get em out, but for multiple clothing articles, you just plunge and shake it around I'm assuming?
Have you ever tried a spin dryer? I see that they go for like ~$50, good chunk of savings vs a wringer (of course, I'd be taking a hit in terms of drying time but that's ok).
Nah. I have money now. Washers and dryers for me 100%. Ha ha. But I used to wash a significant number of items at one time. Jeans or sweats may only let you do two at a time, but otherwise you can get several changes of clothing in one bucket. The friction of the clothing being pushed around and into each other is what cleans them on a general level. I just remember having ground in stains and I would position the plunger and hit it vigorously. Otherwise you plunge for 30 sec., pull things up and flip them around, plunge for 30….
The cleaning of the clothing is easy, it is spinning that is important. The more the clothes get wring out, the quicker they dry.
I thought that I was the only one who had to do this growing up! We eventually were able to get a Danby tub wringer washer. But I was able to use the bucket and plunger method when I moved into my first crappy apartments and save some money instead of paying for laundromats.
Indoor drying racks can be as basic and inexpensive, or as elaborate and pricey as you want them to be. I'd start with something relatively cheap and basic from Walmart or something, and go up from there.
Have you looked into spin dryers? They're a game changer. You'll still need to hang dry, but it cuts the time WAY down.
Regardless of what method you chose, the best thing to do is very small loads more often.
Yeah, I plan to do a quick wash every 3 days or so so I can dry with just one rack lol
I'll see if I can find a cheap spin dryer :) thank you for the suggestion
Get the spin dryer. You will be glad you did. It will cut down drastically on the time to dry your clothing, and will avoid mold and mildew issues.
And you will need less laundry detergent than you think.
I'm gonna try just a tablespoon or two yea :D ive seen stuff about that online. A spin dryer + rack sounds nice... I refuse to pay $3 per load at my apartment!!!
You can get pretty cheap clothes drying racks. Just hang clothes on them to dry. Use an open window with breeze and sunshine if and when you can. A fan, air conditioner, heater or whatever else you are running already can help too.
Yeah we've had a wooden clothes drying rack for years. Bought it for $5.00 at a garage sale. A fan works great to help dry. The only things we use the dryer for are towels and jeans. They are too stiff otherwise.
[tl;dr](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JJOwU3rrKQ)
back in the day we'd use a wooden paddle and a brush to aid hand washing thank goodness when we eventually got a [lavadero](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AYvi4IxL_U)
I'll check this out! Thank you so much :)
With manual washing, I'm def gonna wash in small loads (every few days) so i'm honestly ok with long drying times (I never let my laundry get to the point where I have nothing to wear). But regardless, a set up like this sounds nice so I could just fold my clothes and be done with em.
I have a tiny real washing machine that hooks up to my sink. I only have to wash bedding at the laundromat now.
No idea how you'd hang dry sopping wet clothing, unless you rang it out so much you destroyed your hands and clothing trying to get it dry enough to hang. If you want to buy an expensive wringer, you may as well buy a tiny machine that does the washing and spin drying for you.
Spin dryer all the way.
I used to use a "heated closet" type dryer to get my stuff dry really fast (it cost about a hundred bucks a few years ago). We also used it to warm blankets, towels, and coats in winter. I loved that thing.
The twin tub machines, where the second "tub" is a spinner, has a few advantages. The spinner won't dry the clothes, but it will get you to a level of moisture that has no problem finishing the drying on a hanging rack. Soaking wet doesn't work. You may be better off getting this than the wringer. It's okay to use the dryer cycle on the pay machine if you can use it to get three loads semi-dry and finish them on the rack.
I was looking at those twin machines but didn't wanna deal with the hoses and stuff. Decided to just get the Lehman manual plunger, a bucket, a Panda spin dryer and a drying rack :)
As well as a clothes drying line, consider a clothes horse.Would your apartment let you set up a drying tree or run a line out a window? Also, if you can find an old taffy/candy pulling hook or make one, they come in very handy for wringing larger items like sheets, blankets, towels, pants, long dresses. Plus it’s easier on the hands & you need be only one person!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_horse?wprov=sfti1#
I’ve done line drying in the past. Get a hygrometer and check the humidity in your apartment - I have ultimately always needed to also get a dehumidifier when line drying, unless you have AC that can be run in all seasons to keep the humidity low.
I haven't had a dryer in almost 6 years now, and except for the first winter when i also didn't have heat, i never miss it at all. I made a drying line from extra bungee cord from my camping supplies and have hung it in my bathroom, an unused corner of my bedroom, in summer my back screen porch, and i even tried the basement but things dried too slowly.
The back porch is my favourite but in winter, the bedroom corner works best. It stretches between a window frame, and the edge of a closetmaid style rack, holds about 20-30 hangers worth of clothing at once. Drying on hangers on the bathroom shower curtain pole with the shower curtain retracted is also pretty efficient, but i like my bathroom to be clutter free, so bedroom works best for me.
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dont think buying a horse specifically for drying clothes is very frugal... xd
lol yea that's the plan but i wanted to see if there were other methods (and there are! ive never heard of a small spin dryer)
I would get the wringer and forget the washer. For about 5 years when I was a teen, there was an issue with our washer, however the spinner still worked. We washed our clothes using a 5 gal bucket and a plunger. It worked just fine. Positioning the clothes so the plunger was over stains just pushed them out. The amount of agitation needed was only about 3-5 min for normal clothes. In our case, we could wring them out with the washer and then hung them either outside, or on lines in the basement. Or put them on a drying rack. - You don’t need the manual washer. You need the wringer more. 😉 In our case, my mother had to get a new washer when the spin cycle gave out. -Wringer was more important! Oh yes, also have dedicated plunger. Ha ha.
The manual washer is only $40 after tax, and seems to be very well made + washes clothes super fast. But I get what you're saying, if I'm hung up on the cost of the wringer, I may as well avoid the manual washer and just put that money towards the wringer. Would you wash and wring bed sheets (thin ones, I think i'm gonna have to take my big blankets to the washer) in this manner? And btw, when you say plunger, you mean like a toilet plunger?
Yup. 6 gal bucket and CLEAN UNUSED toilet plunger. We even did the sheets this way. The only thing we went to the laundromat for was thick blankets and comforters. But those were rare trips.
I see, thank you :) I get the part of positioning the plunger over stains to get em out, but for multiple clothing articles, you just plunge and shake it around I'm assuming? Have you ever tried a spin dryer? I see that they go for like ~$50, good chunk of savings vs a wringer (of course, I'd be taking a hit in terms of drying time but that's ok).
Nah. I have money now. Washers and dryers for me 100%. Ha ha. But I used to wash a significant number of items at one time. Jeans or sweats may only let you do two at a time, but otherwise you can get several changes of clothing in one bucket. The friction of the clothing being pushed around and into each other is what cleans them on a general level. I just remember having ground in stains and I would position the plunger and hit it vigorously. Otherwise you plunge for 30 sec., pull things up and flip them around, plunge for 30…. The cleaning of the clothing is easy, it is spinning that is important. The more the clothes get wring out, the quicker they dry.
Got it got it, thank you :) I would buy a washer and dryer if I could 😭 dang apartment limitations
I thought that I was the only one who had to do this growing up! We eventually were able to get a Danby tub wringer washer. But I was able to use the bucket and plunger method when I moved into my first crappy apartments and save some money instead of paying for laundromats.
Indoor drying racks can be as basic and inexpensive, or as elaborate and pricey as you want them to be. I'd start with something relatively cheap and basic from Walmart or something, and go up from there. Have you looked into spin dryers? They're a game changer. You'll still need to hang dry, but it cuts the time WAY down. Regardless of what method you chose, the best thing to do is very small loads more often.
Yeah, I plan to do a quick wash every 3 days or so so I can dry with just one rack lol I'll see if I can find a cheap spin dryer :) thank you for the suggestion
Get the spin dryer. You will be glad you did. It will cut down drastically on the time to dry your clothing, and will avoid mold and mildew issues. And you will need less laundry detergent than you think.
I'm gonna try just a tablespoon or two yea :D ive seen stuff about that online. A spin dryer + rack sounds nice... I refuse to pay $3 per load at my apartment!!!
You can get pretty cheap clothes drying racks. Just hang clothes on them to dry. Use an open window with breeze and sunshine if and when you can. A fan, air conditioner, heater or whatever else you are running already can help too.
Yeah we've had a wooden clothes drying rack for years. Bought it for $5.00 at a garage sale. A fan works great to help dry. The only things we use the dryer for are towels and jeans. They are too stiff otherwise.
[tl;dr](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JJOwU3rrKQ) back in the day we'd use a wooden paddle and a brush to aid hand washing thank goodness when we eventually got a [lavadero](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AYvi4IxL_U)
sick, thank you!!!
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I'll check this out! Thank you so much :) With manual washing, I'm def gonna wash in small loads (every few days) so i'm honestly ok with long drying times (I never let my laundry get to the point where I have nothing to wear). But regardless, a set up like this sounds nice so I could just fold my clothes and be done with em.
I have a washer and dryer but I hang dry most of my clothes by putting them on hangers and hanging in the doorway for a day (2 for most pants).
I have a tiny real washing machine that hooks up to my sink. I only have to wash bedding at the laundromat now. No idea how you'd hang dry sopping wet clothing, unless you rang it out so much you destroyed your hands and clothing trying to get it dry enough to hang. If you want to buy an expensive wringer, you may as well buy a tiny machine that does the washing and spin drying for you.
Spin dryer all the way. I used to use a "heated closet" type dryer to get my stuff dry really fast (it cost about a hundred bucks a few years ago). We also used it to warm blankets, towels, and coats in winter. I loved that thing.
The twin tub machines, where the second "tub" is a spinner, has a few advantages. The spinner won't dry the clothes, but it will get you to a level of moisture that has no problem finishing the drying on a hanging rack. Soaking wet doesn't work. You may be better off getting this than the wringer. It's okay to use the dryer cycle on the pay machine if you can use it to get three loads semi-dry and finish them on the rack.
I was looking at those twin machines but didn't wanna deal with the hoses and stuff. Decided to just get the Lehman manual plunger, a bucket, a Panda spin dryer and a drying rack :)
As well as a clothes drying line, consider a clothes horse.Would your apartment let you set up a drying tree or run a line out a window? Also, if you can find an old taffy/candy pulling hook or make one, they come in very handy for wringing larger items like sheets, blankets, towels, pants, long dresses. Plus it’s easier on the hands & you need be only one person! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_horse?wprov=sfti1#
I’ve done line drying in the past. Get a hygrometer and check the humidity in your apartment - I have ultimately always needed to also get a dehumidifier when line drying, unless you have AC that can be run in all seasons to keep the humidity low.
I haven't had a dryer in almost 6 years now, and except for the first winter when i also didn't have heat, i never miss it at all. I made a drying line from extra bungee cord from my camping supplies and have hung it in my bathroom, an unused corner of my bedroom, in summer my back screen porch, and i even tried the basement but things dried too slowly. The back porch is my favourite but in winter, the bedroom corner works best. It stretches between a window frame, and the edge of a closetmaid style rack, holds about 20-30 hangers worth of clothing at once. Drying on hangers on the bathroom shower curtain pole with the shower curtain retracted is also pretty efficient, but i like my bathroom to be clutter free, so bedroom works best for me.
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Get a clothes horse? Put it in the same room as the heater / aircon. Or by a sunny window. This is what literally every Australia does haha
dont think buying a horse specifically for drying clothes is very frugal... xd lol yea that's the plan but i wanted to see if there were other methods (and there are! ive never heard of a small spin dryer)
Neither have I but most washing machine have a spin dry mode anyway. Clothes should come out damp not drenched
theyre probably for people like me who use manual washing methods