Hanging wet laundry on a drying rack was ruining my clothes for years
I finally figured out last month that I was stuffing too many shirts and jeans onto my wooden drying rack, packing them in tight like sardines. They would take two days to dry and smell musty, plus the fabric felt stiff and scratchy. My neighbor Margaret saw my laundry pile on the porch and laughed, told me to leave at least 2 inches between each item for air flow. I tried it with just 8 pieces instead of cramming 15 on there, and everything dried in 6 hours flat with no smell at all. The clothes came out soft too, like from a dryer but without the heat damage. Who knew the whole time I was just being lazy and overcrowding? Has anyone else had a basic laundry trick totally fix their setup without buying anything new?