What do you do with wet mitts and snowpants?

[mamapjama]

Our front entry has a shoe rack and a small coat rack for the boys, but nothing really to hang wet items on. Our back door is a laundry room but we rarely use it. The other day I tried standing an acordian style drying rack over the laundry sink but it isn't the right size so it is very precariously perched.

 

What do you do with your wet mitts and snowpants to allow them to dry but not drip over everything?

[KatieJ]

When my kiddoes were small, they were instructed to go directly down to the utility room and removed their wet stuff there. I had a wooden clothes rack I left set up during the winter months and they were to put their wet stuff there to dry.

 

Could you place a drying rack over your utility tub?? There are some flat ones for drying sweaters that might work.

 

OUr neighbors put a tension rod across the whole bathroom (they are narrow rooms) and can hang up their clothes there.

[JFSinIL]

Hang stuff in the bathroom - also string a cord in the bathroom or front hall with lotsa clothespins for mittens,etc. We cover the front hall with those dark mats anyway so stuff can drip away. it isn't pretty, but neither is winter with six sets of wet gear needing to dry out.

[Harriet Vane]

Drape it all over the various radiators of the first floor. Even though there are drips the hot radiator causes the water to evaporate quickly.

[Janet in Toronto]

We use one of these over our warm air vents for mitts and boot liners (for Sorel-style boots). Snow pants and jackets get hung in the laundry room (AKA the furnace room), or over the rod in a bathroom.

[mamaof2andtwins]

In this house, the kids take their stuff off in the garage and carry them directly to the basement. I hang everything on a line down there. In our first house, with no basement, I hung them in the bathroom over the tub.

 

Jennie

[LauraGB]

Am I the only one who makes sure they get directly to the dryer, boot liners and all?:confused:

 

I know they'll need them again sooner than later and they won't be dry if we hang them (and I, personally, remember the nasty feeling of cold, damp mittens!), so out of my sight and into the dryer for 20 min they go.

[hsmom]

All of ours go to the dryer when they get in, because mine are usually ready to go back out in 20 - 30 min.

[Cindy in the NH Woods]

for mittens and hats.

 

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3868465

 

 

It's made for shoes, but mostly we use it for the wet mittens or boot liners. We put it by the wood stove.

 

;)

 

Cindy

[Heather in Neverland]

Am I the only one who makes sure they get directly to the dryer, boot liners and all?:confused:

 

I know they'll need them again sooner than later and they won't be dry if we hang them (and I, personally, remember the nasty feeling of cold, damp mittens!), so out of my sight and into the dryer for 20 min they go.

 

Me too!

[Garga]

If they don't go in the dryer, then tension rods in the bathtubs. They have tension rods that are small enough for a shower stall and also tension rods big enough for a regular sized bath.

 

I have tension rods in my shower stall and tub and they come in very handy! They're cheap--like under $10.

[Tree House Academy]

I keep a laundry basket by the door when my kids go outside to play in the snow. When they come in, they strip the top layer off and put all clothes in the laundry basket...that I take pretty quickly on over to the washer. Coats and such we hang on a coat hanger and hang over the bath tub.

[Ria]

I throw it all in the dryer.

 

Ria

[happyWImom]

We have a small laundry/mudroom also, but I had dh put a bunch of hooks on the wall, and that's where they go. And if the hooks get full, they get hung on the doornobs in the laundryroom!

[Desert Rat]

I'm sorry I can't resist....what are those? :) We live in the desert and only have to deal with tracked in sand.

[hornblower]

dryer!

 

We don't get snow much but it rains a lot & I find if I don't dry things thoroughly pretty much every time, things start getting musty & stinky.

[mamaof2andtwins]

Am I the only one who makes sure they get directly to the dryer, boot liners and all?:confused:

 

I know they'll need them again sooner than later and they won't be dry if we hang them (and I, personally, remember the nasty feeling of cold, damp mittens!), so out of my sight and into the dryer for 20 min they go.

 

I don't put mine in the dryer because I would rather not bake the mud into them. Once it has completely frozen it might be okay, but there is a lot of mud mixed into these early snows.

 

Jennie

[mamapjama]

Oh I love those drying racks for mitts and the standing one too. I'm going in to the city today so now I know what to look for thanks!

 

We wear wool mitts and hats here so I can't put them in the dryer. I'll start doing that with jackets though.

 

Thanks for all of your ideas!

[Lizzie in Ma]

And put it up in the basement near the woodstove. :)

[Sharon H in IL]

Onto the dry rack set up in the dining room, old towels handy for wiping up drips.

 

Doesn't everyone have a dry rack in the dining room? :lol:

[texascamps]

Am I the only one who makes sure they get directly to the dryer, boot liners and all?:confused:

 

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Unless they are going right back out, they go right into the dryer, then when dry shoved back into the closet.

 

I did see a neat plastic tray in which you place your snow boots in the house, I guess by the door, that has a lip to keep the melted snow from getting on the floor. I'm really, really tempted to get this so that I'm not so anal about moisture on my wood floors.

 

But I like to attack every situation with the quickest resolution. The dryer.

[Tammyla]

I detest them! :lol:

 

I never even thought of the dryer and I'm having one of those light-bulb moments here.;) I have a rack and let them drip dry, but we have lots of winter wear.