Last week I mentioned the drying racks to my sister

[conuly]

and she said we still have them "because what if the dryer breaks" and I thought to myself "oh, yeah, that's gonna come back to haunt us" but I didn't say anything for fear of making it worse and today - the dryer broke!

*headdesk*

This is Jenn's fault. I will stand by that.

The first repair appointment I could make is next week, but that's okay, we won't have enough money until next week anyway.

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Comments

[zavodilaterrarium]

Oh no :(

Honestly, I'm struggling to think of what actually ends up in the dryer of my household. Like, it IS used, but there are also items that go straight to the drying rack, as far as I can tell. Will have to ask later... though I imagine it's a matter of "what can even fit" + "what needs to come back into use ASAP".

[goljerp]

We used to just use a drying rack for my wife's bras. Then the gas was shut down in our building, and when after a few months it was restored to most of the building, it wasn't restored to the laundry room.[1] The washers were fine; the driers... didn't. So we got additional drying rack(s), even after the the dryers came back: it makes it easier to only need 1 drier instead of 2, and for some things we don't need immediately it can be easier on the fabric. But! I know how annoying it is to have no drier, when what you want is a dryer! So sorry for the dryer breaking!

[1] ConEdison discovered that the laundry room, which had existed since at least the '70s, wasn't on the building's papers, so we had to file paperwork with the city before they'd turn it on again in the laundry room. At least as a result of this, there was one dryer that the company who provides (and charges for) the washers/driers forgot to put back into "charge money mode", so we scored reduced laundry costs for about a year... in addition to the savngs from having our drying rack(s).

[zavodilaterrarium]

Wow, that sounds like a pain! Always gotta have some paperwork issue somewhere aha