Woman’s 7p an hour method to dry clothes indoors in winter

It’s the household task that becomes one of the most difficult – or the most expensive – every winter: drying clothes.

If you have a tumble dryer, you’ll be forking out eyewatering sums in order to dry your washing pile, especially given the cost of electricity has more than doubled in the past few years, and tumble dryers are some of the most power hungry appliances you can own.

And if you don’t, you’re probably battling wet smelling rooms, mould, or freezing open windows as you attempt to dry clothes inside on a cold winter’s day.

But one savvy Reddit user has found a way to dry clothes for ‘just 7p an hour’ – and they swear by it.

Posting on the UKPersonalFinance subreddit, one user said they ‘couldn’t see the tip around’ and so decided to share it with other savvy penny pinchers.

Explaining how it works, she said: “Fundamentally, water is removed from clothes due to evaporation of water molecules held on clothes.

“Heat will increase the rate at which this happens, but it’s the hardest and most expensive way to do this at present.

“What I’ve started doing is to do an extra spin and drain cycle on my laundry, meaning there’s less water to remove from my clothes. I then set up my airer with a dehumidifier in the room PLUS, this is the key bit, pointing my oscillating fan at the laundry at the lowest fan speed.

“This creates an artificial breeze that is cheap, quiet, and really does dry your clothes quite quickly.

“I can’t say I’ve found a cheaper way of doing it this winter, so thought this might help people out!”.