Dry your laundry easily in winter – even if your 'house isn't massive'

There's a handy way to dry washing (Stock Image) (Image: Getty)

As the weather gets colder and people start to switch their heating on, it’s the time of year when you can’t just whack your laundry on the washing line and let nature do its thing by drying it for you.

But if you leave your clothes out to dry for too long, they can start to smell really unpleasant and musty - and if you’ve not got much space in your home, it can become seriously stressful knowing just where to put it all. 

TikTok user Shannon, who posts on social media as @lifewiththetomkins, admitted she’s been trying “to cut costs” and as a result, has not been “using the tumble dryer as much”.

She shared her “house isn’t massive”, so there isn’t much space to dry clothes, so she recommended a nifty product that has been helping her and her family dry their clothes.

Shannon recommended people use an over door space saving airer, which can be split off into three sections once popped over a door. She then demonstrated how she hangs her clothes over it to help them dry.

She wrote: "Its 3-tier adjustable shelves mean that there is plenty of room to hang your laundry!”

This means you can dry things with ease and save money in the process because you don’t have to use the tumble dryer – and you can even keep the heating off if you want to really keep the costs down. 

She also recommended if you can, people “hang your airer upstairs” rather than keeping it downstairs. But why? 

“Heat rises, which means it will help dry your laundry quicker," Shannon shared, so your laundry should be ready to wear in no time.

She also shared a “collapsible laundry basket” has been a game-changer for her, as it can save lots of space when you’re putting things in the washing machine.

Taking to Reddit’s ‘Frugal’ forum, others praised drying racks, saying: “We hang things on a drying rack in a spare room then put the dehumidifier next to it. Drys them super fast without shrinking or using a ton of power.

“Also helps keep the house dry. Pretty crazy the amount of water it pulls out of the air.”

Another penned: “I just hang most of my stuff up on the shower rod to dry, here but when I lived in Korea, we didn't have a dryer at all. We used dryer racks to hang EVERYTHING on. It works just fine - it takes about a day.

“I don't like how my dryer treats some of my nicer items, so hang dry is my preferred method for most stuff.”