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!
I use a laundry bag for any sheets to avoid this
Good LPT
What happens when the sheet eats that?
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 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.
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.
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’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.
Because the shrinking living space makes it impossible to hang up a full sheet unless you’re just hanging it through your kitchen/living room/ bedroom all at the same time.
And some areas such as Taiwan and the west coast is so humid you’re essentially just molding your sheets rather than drying them.
Sorry,didnt mean to interrupt your tale of privilege.
Get help.
Assholes like you aren’t welcome here.
Did you reply to the wrong person? They answered the question and the last part was called for, IMO.
https://old.lemmy.world/comment/17089113
You mean this cunt? Yup, I meant it.
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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.
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. ✨
There are zipper “fitted” sheets that avoid this problem
Thats why I stopped using dryers and just hang stuff out to dry. Also saves a lot of energy.
Look at Mx. Privilege over here talking about wide open living spaces.
Even in a small apartment it’s doable, speaking from experience. Just get the kind of rack you can hang over a door or radiator.
When I lived in a 42 sqm apartment I just put them in the middle of the one room I had. It did require walking around them all of the time, and an apartment that small became quite humid when hang-drying inside, but I managed to pull it off.
Ah, so you were privileged to live alone without kids who make more laundry and need space to run and play without pulling down the wet laundry. Glad it worked out for you. I’ll use the dryer in the building laundry room my rent pays to maintain, thanks
Having no kids is not a privilege, anyone can do it if they make the decision before its too late.
In Ireland and the UK it’s very common to hang all laundry to dry, and a utility room is a luxury. We just do a load every couple of days and open windows to deal with the humidity. Kids, apartments, whatever.
You had the kids, you deal with the consequences. Cunt.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Ahh the wonderful unsolicited advice online without knowing my living situation.
you want to help me with my budget too without knowing how much I have too?
what next? you can tell me what meds to take without checking my charts too.
All things I didn’t ask you about and seek to solve them on my own PERFECTLY FINE so far and managing it fine without your approval.
Some of us need the dryers for health reasons.
You’re as dismissive as people who vilify molehills like the insignificant plastic straws and ignore the people with disabilities and elderly who need them.
Here’s some unsolicited advice I feel no remorse in offering: seek help. It’s not normal to be commenting in this manner.
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.
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.
Well yardeedard.
But that’s good though. Good for the environment and stuff. ✊
Fingers crossed that’s just a stock image because that wardrobe is very depressingly beige.
Often people wash clothes that are similar colour
Yeah everyone has these. It’s the privilege going off in here like sheets just need to be hung somewhere like everyone has a yard. Let alone a balcony or not limited in room.
I hang them on doors, they don’t take long to dry.
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You can fold them and put them on the wings. One item on each side, plus pillow cases and towels in the middle - this is my setup for washing bedsheets and towels.
Yes, familiar with it and it’s fantastic at making sheets moldy, another severe allergy we have in the household.
you just said you hung it in your living space.
Story seems to change in each post you’re responding to me on.
Sounds like you just need beter ventilation in your house, not a dryer
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I’ve had zero problems with mold. Maybe you have a poorly ventilated home, might want to check on that.
I do hang them in my living space, on one of those racks. How are those two mutually exclusive? You fold them out and put them on the floor.
That rack is ridiculous, one kid or dog runs by and the entire load is on the floor.
“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.
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.
I can’t imagine that staying oerfectly wrinkle free
I’m more inclined to believe that any attempt at tightening the sheet down will inevitably create holes at the corners.
Pretty sure there’s a reason fitted sheets exist. Like, imagine this advice for a t-shirt?
‘Just get a really big piece of cloth and kind wrap it around yourself a few times, then stick a pin in it’
To each their own but — no, I think I’ll stick to my shirt.
You are NOT invited to my toga party.
Please, I didn’t mean it - I’m sorry
That’s what garment bags are for, never have to worry about shit getting in your sheet of you jail it ahead of time.
