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Despite its small footprint, the hanging rack is quite sturdy My boyfriend and I share the same maximalist approach to laundry: Avoid it at all costs until, one day, you?re underwear-less. At that point, we?re forced to stuff the mounds of dirty clothes and linens that have inevitably piled up into two or three Ikea bags and drag them all down to the laundromat in one giant, inconvenient trip. There are lots of annoying things about this, but one of the most acute is that we need a lot of space on clothes-drying racks in order to air-dry all of our damp workout gear, button-ups, and jeans at once.
The thing is, we live in a New York City apartment that doesn?t exactly have a lot of space. Even though the heavy-duty, Honey-Can-Do drying rack I bought last August gives us more surface area to air-dry our clothes than we?ve ever had, we usually have more items than can fit. And we definitely don?t have room for a second standing drying rack: When ours is at full mast, it takes up most of the free space in our den-slash?dining room?slash?home office. For a while, we just hung damp clothes from the shower-curtain rod and a coat rack in the entryway, basically turning our home into a laundromat for at least 24 hours at a time (because we also take our time putting clothes away, of course). But that started to become untenable, not to mention unbearable. Then I found this hanging metal drying rack on Amazon. Designed and manufactured by Dutch home-goods company Braba...