Alternatives: Portable Clothes Dryers

Portable Clothes Dryers

This is the first alternative in the series on finding space saving alternatives to clothes dryers. You can find the first post, which is the entire tip list, here.

Portable Clothes Dryers are your best friend if you need something small and, of course portable, to take care of your occasional drying needs. They’re great if you live in a studio apartment, dorm room or even a one bedroom. Basically Portable Clothes Dryers are great in any place in which space is limited.

You’ll find them convenient if you only need to dry a few clothes at a time. Also be aware that often with portable items such as this what it doesn’t take up in space it takes up in time. That is, be prepared to deal with it taking longer to dry your clothes versus a basic clothes dryers, such as a tumble dryer.

And in some cases Portable Clothes Dryers may not dry your clothes fully. If you’re not familiar with dryers that basically take the place of the wring cycle in a washing machine, they’re called spin dryers. What they do is simply spin out the excess water in your clothes so they will air dry quickly. They typically go hand in hand with portable washing machines which do not have a wringing cycle.

However, in a situation in which you are using a portable washing machine, there’s nothing stopping you from combining all three alternatives together. If you have a portable washing machine and need to get excess water out (besides dripping drying) you could get a spin dryer and during times in which you can’t afford to wait for your clothes to air dry you could use an (over the door) electric portable clothes dryer to dry them.

You gotta be inventive in times like these, right?

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