Washing laundry at night?
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NO dryer? You can line dry them mostly dry and then touch them up in the dryer, I do this with sleeping bags and it goes by really fast, maybe ten minutes a load?
You can also hang your clothes indoors and put a fan on while you are at work.
RE: disinfectant, detergents all kill germs in laundry even if they don't say so on the ad or the bottle. Vinegar and baking soda are both good laundry additives. Vinegar is a mild disinfectant, and a fabric softener...add to the RINSE cycle. You can use the DOWNY BALL with a plug that flies out at the first spin cycle to release it for the rinse cycle...fill it all the way to the top with straight white vinegar. Baking soda in the WASH cycle freshens laundry for closer to that "sun-dried" smell, and also softens water so your detergent works better. When mixed, baking soda and vinegar produce a dramatic reaction but I think it is a harmless one, and not really all that messy if diluted in water from the washer. Kids mix these all the time for their science project volcanoes. But as for the mixture being safe for fabrics/colorfastness, etc, I don't know about this. Test a small item you don't care much about like an old unmated colored sock to see if the reaction damages the fabric.
Other answers:
You should get a dryer, then you could just toss them in there, and they would be nice and dry and clean when you get home.
You should get a dryer, then you could just toss them in there, and they would be nice and dry and clean when you get home.
Even though I have a dryer, I line dry a majority of my clothes. I place them on hangers and then I put them on a portable clothing rack to dry. I've never placed my clothes outside to dry and I don't think my clothes have germs because of it. The only planning I have to do is making sure I don't run out of clothes before I do laundry!
Do you have one room indoors that stays warmer than the others? Is there space to hang a line indoors, the moisture in the night air I have never had luck with, but on the upside, washing latenight instead of daytime hours has had a big effect on my electric bill.
washing laundry at night will really make the clothes smell. you can avoid it by bringing to the laundry shop your clothes. unless get a dryer which would cost a lot plus the electric bill,, try to compute and you might end up bringing it to the shop instead. that is, if your'e really into good smelling clothes.