Best travel clothesline
This is what a normal laundry day looks like. Most of the world doesn’t have driers, in fact, some people don’t even like driers (some others even argue it’s bad for your clothes). We digress, this post is about how we do laundry on the road, the stuff we carry around and the things we’ve heard good things about, but don’t own yet. Let’s dive into it!
Let’s start with our clothes line. We know, what about the wash? just bear with us, we’ll get there. the SeaToSummit Clothesline has been AMAZING! We can hook it up to virtually anything and, provided we are careful with what we hang and don’t overweigh it, it always holds up. Actually, the line always holds up, it’s the stuff we attach the line to that doesn’t always hold up. Also, this post is not sponsored and we don’t have affiliate links, if you want this puppy please go to their website and use the store locator ‘cause Amazon doesn’t carry this one (or any other one we felt would work this well). Also, the line doesn’t get wet with wet clothes so it’s easy to pack once you are done. Size wise, as you can see, it’s teeny! and super light.
On to washing
We hadn’t heard of any travel and environmentally friendly substitute for the good ol’ detergent until a couple on IG turned us on to the Laundry Egg. We have not bought this product ourselves but as soon as we get home we are definitely going to try it out!
So, you are probably wondering how this works? Well, very much like it did at home, except for the drying part. We…
Buy detergent, if we don’t have any left over. We stopped using softener early on and don’t miss it at all.
Figure out how to use the machine - this one can be tricky but we usually ask our AirBnB host, or apartment host, when we check in. By now we’ve seen enough machines that we can kinda figure it out.
We always wash cold b/c our loads are too small to sort by color
Then select the cycle that looks shortest, aka, not delicates ‘cause that can take forever!
Sometimes we have to select the spin speed, we generally go for a higher spin b/c that usually means a faster wash and b/c our clothes aren’t very delicate. Delicate clothes wouldn’t have survived a trip like this.
Wait… sometimes the machine will say how long our selected settings will take, but if not, then we wait and time how long it takes. This way if we have any other washes we want to do, we’ll know how much time we need.
If we don’t have a drying rack (sometimes you get lucky and you get one) then we hunt a good place to hang our clothes line. We look for sturdy hooks, window/door handles, etc… If you can, select a location that gets a bit of sun so the thicker clothes can dry more quickly.
Hang the clothes and wait some more. If we are in a very humid place, the we turn on the A/C - you might think this is counterintuitive but actually removing humidity from the air allows the clothes to fully dry, albeit maybe slower b/c it’s cold. This was by far our greatest challenge in humid climates and it took us a while to figure how that the A/C actually helped.
That’s it! Do you have any helpful tips for doing laundry while traveling? Have any of you used the laundry egg? Leave you comments below, we’d love to hear from you.
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