Tammy's Recipes

Thanks for the quick response! I do have one clothes drying rack, but I think I've been using it wrong...I'll have to actually use it properly, and then get another! :-) I don't mind hanging dress shirts, jeans, or pants. Not too much wrinkling with those.

We keep plastic hangers in the laudry area and hang damp clothes right on the hangers. This is especially good for dress shirts that you do not want to have to iron. (I hate ironing.) It also works well for knit polo shirts.

JaneC Duquette

I also hang clothes up in the basement because we don't have much room anymore for a cloths line outside. I also hang all the shirts up on hangers. Our gas line goes thru the basement so all the hangers get put on that. The only things I dry is the underwear and socks, plus my daughter and son's jeans. But what I do is wash two loads to hang (that's all that will fit on my lines) then I put clothes in that need to be dried. That way the hanging clothes get some warm air since we have a stocking on the end of the hose. So I figure I do two for the price of one.

I usually fold my t-shirts over the line a bit to prevent that "scallop edge"...of course then I sometimes have a line/crease in my shirts but that seems to smooth out easier than that scallop edge.

Another alternative is to put your shirts straight onto clothes hangers and then hang them on the line.

Hi, I also hang all my clothes in the basement/garage on hangers. When they are dry I usually "fluff" them on noheat setting in my dryer to take stiffness out and whatever wrinkle there were. Works for me and my family. Hope this helps. Staci

how far apart are the clothes pins? are you stretching out the fabric or allowing it to have some sag? the sag helps I think. I also 'fluff' after line drying.

If my shirts get adversely affected by pinning from the bottom, I fold them over the line and put the pins in the underarm area - that part is never on display - unless your arms are in the air! Or, for delicate fabrics, avoid pins altogether by drying on the hangers. Or, an idea I've never tried, is to thread a pair of tights/panty hose through the sleeves, so the feet are coming out like "hands" and then pin the "hands" to the line.

I just recently thought about using hangers instead of clothes pins for my knits; I'll have to try that, too! Thanks for all your suggestions. I've been a homemaker for only about two years and still have so much to learn!

-Stephanie (won't let me post as anything other than anonymous).

I give my clothes a good shake before hanging them. I read this in an old (19th century) homemaking book and I figure they probably had all that figured out! It seems to help a little with wrinkles. For things that are just hopelessly wrinkled, I throw them in the dryer with a damp washrag for about 10 minutes or so, but this is rarely and mostly for my husband's work clothes.