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Demise of the Airing Cupboard
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carefullycautious
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Hate not having an airing cupboard. Gone are the days that I could hang clothes up in it to dry overnight. Miss the warm towels and warm aired clothes I could retrieve each day.
But most of all miss the space to store Towels, Sheets etc.
Sorry for the rant, spent all day washing as many things as I could to catch the milder day we have had, plus ironed everything and now trying to work out where to air it all.
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We need a "couldn't agree more" button! Where else can you dry clothes, start seeds, & raise dough - they all have to be done elsewhere now! I miss mine too - we had a small radiator installed in the cupboard that used to be the airing cupboard, but it's not the same as it only comes on when the heating's on, i.e. not a lot.Angie - GC Aug25: £106.61/£550 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)0
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I have a huge airing cupboard. It's floor to ceiling, in the bathroom.
I store all my spare duvets, pillow, bed sets, towels, sleeping bags, tents, tablecloths, spare curtains, old christening dresses, blankets/fleeces, painting dropcloths, and lots of other stuff.
I think it's great - everything is always fresh and dry, no mildew or mould or musty smells and plus also it heats the bathroom and the bedroom behind it.
You could just build a large cupboard and run heating pipes through it - build your own airing cupboard (or hot press as it was always known when I was growing up).I'm an adult and I can eat whatever I want whenever I want and I wish someone would take this power from me.
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I will never chance to a combi couldn't manage without my airing cupboard.The heating is kept off but the hot water is on every other day,shirts t-shirts etc go on hangers every thing else on the shelves ,brilliant0
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:mad: Go away you orrible lot. I'm green with envy, and until I can move into a larger property there is nowhere I could put one.
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I too love my airing cupboard all the towels, sheets etc in there and can air small stuff like socks and underwear in there too.. I don't want a combi boiler thanks..#6 of the SKI-ers Club :j
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Thinking about it, I have just about the biggest combi boiler available and it has a little hot water tank inside itself... I do use the shelves above the vent for drying vegetables & sometimes raising dough & fermenting stuff too; it wouldn't be too hard to build a cupboard around that. It wouldn't be big enough for washing, but it would take tea towels etc. and be dark enough for seeds too...
Rats. Just remembered, OH doesn't like wall cupboards in kitchens. Ah well...Angie - GC Aug25: £106.61/£550 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)0 -
I haven't had an airing cupboard for years, and can't say that I miss it. My mother still witters on about it, she swears by hers.
But I dry clothes outside, finish them off in the tumble dryer if I need to, then put them away. I used to hate emptying the airing cupboard - seemed so pointless to put clothes in one cupboard, leave them there for a bit, and then move them into another cupboard.No longer a spouse, or trailing, but MSE won't allow me to change my username...0 -
Until last week my hot-press was otherwise known as the Cupboard of Doom - if you opened the door an avalanche of towels, sheets and cloth nappies (that haven't been used in 2 years) would fall on your head. It was a ridiculous mess
Happy to say I did clean it all out and now everything is quite neat and tidy and almost decently organisedI even put some scented soaps in various places in it to make it smell nice again.
I had no idea about the comi-boiler thing. Indeed, where are you supposed to store all your "household linens" as my Granny called them?!
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trailingspouse wrote: »I haven't had an airing cupboard for years, and can't say that I miss it. My mother still witters on about it, she swears by hers.
But I dry clothes outside, finish them off in the tumble dryer if I need to, then put them away. I used to hate emptying the airing cupboard - seemed so pointless to put clothes in one cupboard, leave them there for a bit, and then move them into another cupboard.
I line dry but got rid of my tumble dryer years ago it used too much electricity. So airing cupboard is perfect to keep the linens and towels in , no need to move them anywhere as that's where they live .#6 of the SKI-ers Club :j
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