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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

I've learned to just put the sheets in the dryer by themselves and use the sensor-dry setting (they get washed with everything else, though). They dry pretty fast just by themselves, so I don't think it's wasting much, if any, energy by splitting them out. Probably at least breaks even since I put the rest of the wash load on the drying rack while those are in.

[–] Rusty 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why does the largest fitted sheet not simply eat the other five?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

no, it does

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I feel like you might be the ruler of omicron persei 8...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I wash them separately, too, because the clothes will ball up inside and it feels like they aren't getting washed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just wash and dry similar things with themselves. 🤷‍♂️ Sheets and such by themselves, towels by themselves. Rarely have any issues. ✨

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And, even after all that, when you go to put the sheet on the bed you still find a sock.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

and inside that sock is a wadded paper towel, rock hard and flaking

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I use a laundry bag for any sheets to avoid this

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

What happens when the sheet eats that?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just stop secreting oils and losing cells from your skin so you can sleep on a bare mattress. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Thats why I stopped using dryers and just hang stuff out to dry. Also saves a lot of energy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Look at Mx. Privilege over here talking about wide open living spaces.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

When I lived in a 42 sqm apartment I just put them in the middle of the one room I had. It did require walking around them all of the time, and an apartment that small became quite humid when hang-drying inside, but I managed to pull it off.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (8 children)

It's nice to have a house, eh. Or a balcony. Or both. Or a nearby meadow. Or some electrical wiring attached between apartment buildings.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I dry stuff inside on a rack like this. I've got a yard, but that yard is full of birds who like to sit and shit on my clean clothes.

Sheets and towels go in the dryer though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fingers crossed that’s just a stock image because that wardrobe is very depressingly beige.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Often people wash clothes that are similar colour

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well yardeedard.

But that's good though. Good for the environment and stuff. ✊

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

towels become so much softer in the dryer though :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Exactly. I hate that coarse air-dried towel feeling. Like sandpaper.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I was in a band called Pathetically Sodden Washcloth. Mostly Trip hop, a bit of Crust punk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I googled crust punk with a genuine thirst for knowledge, but didn't know enough about music to understand the answer lol. On a side note, back in the 80s one time I saw a Portland band called Butt Seepage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll never understand why dryers can't simply reverse direction several times during the cycle to prevent this from happening all the time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think once the clothes are trapped in the bedsheet it’s game over. I’m not sure changing directions would prevent it in the first place, unless it was literally just shaking or something close to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It actually does help! Many commercial grade dryers have exactly this feature and it does exactly that. You can sometimes find it at brand new laundromats and I can confirm it somehow magically stops them from wrapping into one big old ball

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I picture the sheet having the hangdog look of a dog that stole a steak off the cutting board.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As an aside I successfully folded a fitted sheet recently, and obviously I'm a wizard now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Fucking necromancers and their black magic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

There are zipper "fitted" sheets that avoid this problem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I bought a cheap knock-off of a shark tank product, where you clip the four corners of the sheets together - and it’s worked a treat.

In retrospect, a large enough laundry bag as another comment mentioned would also work wonders!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's what garment bags are for, never have to worry about shit getting in your sheet of you jail it ahead of time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fitted sheets are garbage. Get extra large flat ones and one of those alligator clip elastic strap thingies that holds it together underneath the mattress.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can't imagine that staying oerfectly wrinkle free

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm more inclined to believe that any attempt at tightening the sheet down will inevitably create holes at the corners.

Pretty sure there's a reason fitted sheets exist. Like, imagine this advice for a t-shirt?

'Just get a really big piece of cloth and kind wrap it around yourself a few times, then stick a pin in it'

To each their own but — no, I think I'll stick to my shirt.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You are NOT invited to my toga party.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Please, I didn't mean it - I'm sorry

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