How to Dry Clothes on a Rack

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Buy or make 2 sturdy wooden clothes drying racks

   For t-shirts this means the shirt will be flattened out in a 2-dimensional shirt shape.
   
   Pants can be hung in a flat pants shape, or you can hold the bottoms of the legs, put the seams together and "snap" the pants so that the legs are folded along the creases and hang that way. ,,,,,,, These can be hung from the edges of the rungs if there is room, otherwise use the shower rod. ,
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   Step 2: each large enough to hold 1 medium size load (about 30 feet of drying space)

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   Step 3: Decide which rack is for whites and very light colored clothes and which is for darks.

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   Step 4: Get a load of wet laundry out of the washer (or

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   Step 5: if you are really frugal

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   Step 6: out of the bathtub you washed it in).

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   Step 7: Take a garment (good to start with shirts or pants) out

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   Step 8: shake out the big wrinkles

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   Step 9: Lay the garment along the rack with the folds either on the seams or where you want a crease.

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    Step 10: each larger garment or towel gets its own rung for now

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    Step 11: As you take out clothes

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    Step 12: put the socks

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    Step 13: undies

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    Step 14: hankies

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    Step 15: and other small items aside.

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    Step 16: Once all the big stuff is hung up on the appropriate rack (white/lights on the whites rack

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    Step 17: darks on the darks rack)

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    Step 18: go through and make room on the rungs for the small stuff.

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    Step 19: Socks can be hung in the joints of the rack rather than on the rungs

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    Step 20: or even on the supporting

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    Step 21: angled

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    Step 22: Thin towels can be folded in half.

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    Step 23: In an emergency

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    Step 24: thin t-shirts can be folded in half.

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    Step 25: Button down shirts go on hangers rather than on the rungs.

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    Step 26: Wait for the clothes to dry on their own.

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