Do you air your dirty laundry?
01-10-10, 11:58 AM
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Do you air your dirty laundry?
I wash mine on delicate and then hang dry in the sun. There’s plenty of sun around here.
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I like my lycra. Wash and hang in the laundry room.
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You know, I used to like Nachoman.
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01-10-10, 01:18 PM
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i wash them in the shower when i take one after the ride. i basically only have 2 bibs and 2 Jerseys, and a few base layers. i feel i'm wasting too much water in the washer, even in the small load setting. you obviously have more clothes. and i hang dry in the garage.
01-10-10, 01:42 PM
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And if you can read signal flags, sometimes there's a message in those flags. It's usually something rude.
On topic: I wash my bike clothes in the washer in cold water on delicate with enough other clothes to make a full load, than put them in the dryer and run two or three times through on air fluff.
Outside, they'd never dry.
On topic: I wash my bike clothes in the washer in cold water on delicate with enough other clothes to make a full load, than put them in the dryer and run two or three times through on air fluff.
Outside, they'd never dry.
01-10-10, 05:24 PM
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And if you can read signal flags, sometimes there's a message in those flags. It's usually something rude.
Hahahaha, Navy guy here, ...... that's a good one!!
I use the dryer in low heat.
01-10-10, 05:37 PM
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Must be nice. For a bit over 2 weeks, any wet laundry hung out on a line would have become a sheet of ice here in the mid-Atlantic. What are those green things in the OP's pic? Actually, the sustained and unusually cold weather here has caused me to pay more attention to the area's woodland creatures and, for the first time, I've been making my own suet for birds and squirrels and chucking out a truckload of bird seed. Although my 6 dogs are vexed at the myriad birds and rodents feeding just outside their sliding glass doors, it gives me something to watch during the interminable trainer sessions when no good sports are on the TV.
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I air my clean laundry inside.
01-10-10, 05:45 PM
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I hang my dirty laundry after a ride for a few hours but when I need to clean them they go in the washer on delicate, and then into the dryer on air fluff.
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Hand wash cycle (cold setting) immediately after a ride. Hang dry in the laundry room. Because of the wicking properties of technical fabrics, they dry fast indoors.
01-10-10, 07:49 PM
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I wash on gentle and hang them to dry on the pool deck.
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Mmm I would LOVE to air dry and sun my laundry. Laundry smells great when they catch the fresh air and sunshine...
All I have is a drying rack it all goes on...inside the stinky apt.
All I have is a drying rack it all goes on...inside the stinky apt.
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And if you can read signal flags, sometimes there's a message in those flags. It's usually something rude.
Hey Nachoman, is your Holland blue?
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01-10-10, 09:34 PM
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And if you can read signal flags, sometimes there's a message in those flags. It's usually something rude.
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