but I'm the dryer!
We have learnt that the major drawback to doing laundry by hand is that it takes forever to dry. I have often hung all my clothes to dry, but this is after they have been through a spin cycle in the washing machine. This leaves them only damp. When you are washing by hand, you do not have the luxury of a spin cycle. This means that clothes are often still dripping wet. We do our best to get the water out, squeezing them, and wringing towels, but not wringing most things as we don't want to stretch them. We hung a few t-shirts and socks yesterday, about eleven a.m. It is now nearly 9 p.m. The clothes are nearly dry. We looked on-line to see if it were even possible to buy a wringer or a "mangle" as they are known here in the UK. Well, no, you really can't. Instead, while looking, I came across this. James and I want to buy on when we get settled in New Zealand. But it got me to thinking, and it reminded me a lot of a salad spinner. And I wondered if that would work the same way . . .
Today, we were in yet another second-hand store. We have visited about 5 already, and they are great. In this particular store, they happened to have a salad spinner. For just over a pound, I though why not? let's give it a try. It's not perfect, but it works OK. After squeezing two pairs of socks the best I could, I put them into the spinner and gave it a whirl, and managed to pull over a quarter of a cup of water out. I know that is not a huge amount, but it is still water that now doesn't have to evaporate. For now, it is my new toy, and hopefully our clothes will start to take less than 48 hours to dry.
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how much can you actually fit in a a salad spinner? I want a photo of your clothes where my lettuce should go.
Oh my gosh, that is frickin' funny!! I totally have a mental image of you salad spinning undies! Way to use your katimaskills and improvise.
You know why they're taking so long to dry, right? Because it's so much more HUMID in Britain than in Saskatchewan. When I came here, I was amazed that you could hang laundry up in your room and it would be dry in a couple of hours. I have childhood memories of houses full of damp laundry, steaming and taking up every possible inch of space on the radiator.
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