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That wire thing that you dry clothes on inside, do you call it a clothes dryer or a clothes horse (it's proper name) or something else? I had no idea what the man was on about this morning when he referred to it as the dryer thingy.
Clothes horse.
A small annoyance in my life is that my horse is five socks wide. It means that either some of my socks have to be parted from their partners for drying purposes (untidy), or space is wasted. I mostly cope. But not always.
Horse if free-standing, rack if attached to a wall imo. I have a 3 panel one that folds into a z shape and is super useful for large items like sheets/towels as each panel is at least a metre wide and has 3 cross bars. Very old fashioned, I found it at a garage sale and grabbed it with glee cos I've never seen one in the shops. My other one folds out into a vertical X shape and has a removable top panel that locks it into place and is IDEAL for loading up with socks/little shit and putting over the ducted heating outlet in the spare room. Both fold flat when not in use and get stowed in the gap between the bookcase and the window for low profile storage.
Yea Horsey
"Clothes airer" from my removals inventory training.
We have the white foldable ones and call them clothes racks
I call it Sebastian but I've always been a little weird
(Clothes) drying rack. My mum used to call it a "screen", I think that was specific to where and when she grew up. Clothes horse I didn't really hear until I moved to Australia. I still find it delightfully quaint tbh.
Side note: I find a lot of older school drying racks here unnecessarily complicated with the lower racks and weird folding mechanisms. Probably a hangover of most people living in larger homes and not as much pressure to design a more compact and less fussy rack. Yes, haha, "rack"...
I call the wire ones a clothes dryer, the wooden ones i call a horse
growing up my mum had one of these https://beckysfarmhouse.com/shop/uncategorized/vintage-clothes-drying-rack/