We don't know how it works in your home but after one too many shrunken sweaters, our boyfriend has been banished from doing laundry (we know, lucky him). To dry our delicate clothing, we usually hang them over chairs because we can't stand those folding racks being set up in our rather small apartment. But feast your eyes on this -
Resembling a chandelier, this Ikea hanging dryer is attractive and perfect for drying your goods in a small space. It already comes with clips so all you need is a place to hang it and at $4.99, you might want to buy two.
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i feel like this would be good for bras & lacy things, but would stretch out sweaters.
Where do you hang it? On the shower curtain rod?
They could call it the Pantelier.
Looks like an octopus with the little eyes!
It is an octopus. These have been out for a while, but in green and blue.
How it works in my home is my husband does his laundry, and I do mine. No worries of him throwing my sweaters in the dryer, but he still has to do half the laundry. (Well, maybe a little less than half - I always seem to end up doing the linens...but then again he always takes my stuff to the dry cleaners, so it balances).
The octopusses are cute, but yeah, only good for bras.
I use this:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60047896
It isn't as fun as an octopus, but you can drape sweaters over the bars. And fold it against the wall when you're not using it.
i don't know about using that thing as a dryer rack, but it'd be a sweet mobile for a baby's room (with family photos, postcards of happy places, or just neat graphic cards hanging) or as a cool hanging fixture in a casual adult's space with paper clipped in each one. maybe even hanging over a desk instead of a cork board on the wall.
I feel like this ia photo mobile waiting to happen. Anyone? Anyone?
These are really for socks, and small items. I have two and they work a treat. However, for a jumper you're really better off drying them flat on a drying rack specifically for sweaters - I used to have a rack that fitted over the bath tub, but must admit I get fed up waiting for items to dry this way so I reshape knits when damp and then hang on non-slip hangers to dry.
Haha! I have the blue one from a few seasons ago, I call it the Bra-ctopus! Its perfect for air-drying unmentionables!
@ Cheleida: In my house, we call it the bra-ctopus, too! Great minds think alike.
I confess, I prefer the larger fold-out kind. I use the Home Solutions Expandable Drying Rack from Target (I'd put the URL here, but it's eight lines long!). It tucks nicely into my closet when I'm not using it, and it expands to hold a ton of laundry. But I air dry practically everything, so I need a ton of capacity. The dryer uses so much electricity and either ruins clothes or at least shrinks all my pants. >:-(
What I do when I don't want the rack o' clothes being in the way is run a load in the washer the morning while I'm getting ready for work (it and I are done in about the same time), then I set out the clothes out to dry before I leave. Then, the rack takes up precious real estate only while I'm out, and the clothes are ready to be put away when I get home in the evening.
I have one of these from a while back, but in blue... I picked it out for my son's room to hang his washed diaper covers. Doesn't take up much room, and looks pretty cute.
I set up my folding drying rack in the tub and leave it overnight. Maybe that only works because I'm in a desert climate. Perhaps if you dried your sweaters that way overnight they'd be dry enough to hang.
do you share a boyfriend?........ "our boyfriend"
Who's the "we"? You and your roommate/twin/other personality? and you share a boyfriend? Do you have any idea how ridiculous the plural possessive sounds in a post like this? Please give it up. Others on the site have.
i am sure it's the style guide you know that they have to follow.
but erm..I'm the one who was banished from doing the laundry after i shrunk a few of my husband's shirts!
Peachpie -- jinx! as my 8yr old would say.
I used one of these at my old apartment and loved it. It's great for small spaces (especially in old buildings when EVERYTHING collects dust and shows it within minutes of dusting.) I hung it over the shower rod in my bathroom and hung everything from pants to sweaters.
I didn't notice anything of mine stretching out.
I think men do the chore wrong on purpose so they are never required to do it again. I certainly remember my brother doing that. Sneeky!
I'm convinced my husband screws up my laundry so I won't let him do it any more. Whether he's conscious of that behavior or not, I don't know.
Not new at ikea, definitely not new.
I hang EVERYTHING on mine! Including my super heavy weight jeans! I just have to use four of the clips for them...but it surely is better than shrinking my brand new stuff!
Perfect....just what I need for my bras. I just added it to my Ikea shopping list.
Good practical use, but this also looks like a good IKEA Hack waiting to happen!
@cheleida & architexas: ME too! I love my Bra-ctopus.
I bought the bra-ctopus years ago, use it all the time, and I love it. After five years, a couple of the clips have broken, so I may need to get another one. For $5, it is a fantastic product.
I use it to dry cloth diapers. Works great.
I just drape mine on a hanger, and hang from a door jam overnight. No special equipment required.
This is definitely not a new contraption! My mother has one a few years older than I am - however, this one is prettier.
We've had these for a while, one in red, one in blue. We use it for socks, his and hers undergarments and occasionally use both of them (spread out) to hang a sheet. We love it!
I used to have one of these...for many, many years. Bought it in Englnd. It was useful when I wore "dainties," but now I'm more practical, so I gave it to my dainty cousin.
We got a version of this from Daiso, a Japanese dollar store with branches in California to dry bibs and washclothes. We hung it from the wire rack in our kitchen bay window...super!
I have prettymuch eliminated hand wash from my life. Everything goes into the washing machine, some things are dried by putting them on TOP of the dryer while it dries a normal load. (Bras are ready to wear in one dryer load.) I gave up on wool knits and other hand-wash-only items long ago, and only have a few things for dry cleaning. Simplify!!
My aunt has the red one from at least 5 years ago!
Hangs her plastic bags from it outside (to re-use them.)
So my IKEA (Stoughton, MA) has stopped carrying these and you can't get them online. I LOVE them for hanging my baby's diaper covers to dry. Aside from eBay, does anyone know of anything similar I can buy online?!