Swim parents: how do you deal with wet swimsuits?
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Anonymous
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I have two boys swimming this year. They're in the water 8 and 4 times a week at least. They each have a few practice jammers and they're driving me nuts! Older kid lays them on his radiator, even though the heat isn't on yet. Younger kid hangs them on hooks behind his door (this works reasonably well, but won't if he ever moves to swimming more than once a day.)
Any recommendations for a small drying rack or other solution that does not involve draping suits all over the bedroom? I'd prefer that they stay in the bedroom because that gives us the best chance of success. |
Anonymous
| ours hang their over their shower rods. |
Anonymous
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I have a three hook that hangs behind the door (the over the door kind) that they hang them on. It works fine actually. For my boys it is easier--- my girls and their suits, it is something. The girls have about 12 practice suits each. Seriously. |
Anonymous
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We have a set of wall hooks in their bathroom that the suits hang off of, it works well because I do not go in the that room. |
Anonymous
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Over the top rod of the glass door in their bathroom. I personally would not want wet suits in their bedroom. |
Anonymous
| Tons of suits. I just throw them in the wash in a mesh bag and hang. |
Anonymous
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OP here. Their bathroom, which they share with another sibling, doesn't have the space for more suits. And I'm afraid if they move them in there, someone will end up using them as hand towels. Or my 10 old will end up taking his older brother's suit to practice.
Maybe the older one needs hooks on the back of his closet door. At least then I don't have to see them quite as much! |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
We tried the hooks. The door spent so much time open that they ended up pressed against the wall in the dark. |
Anonymous
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It sounds like what your youngest does with the hooks is working, you might just have to invest in some more suits so he has a dry one for each practice.
We do something similar. We don't have suits but an equivalent number of ballet and gymnastics leotards that have to hang dry and I have a huge over-the-door hook system hanging behind the laundry room door. |
Anonymous
| I resorted to putting up command hooks in the bathtub. They hop in for a shower with their suits on. While the water warms up, undress and hang up their suits. No dripping wet suits all over the floor. |
Anonymous
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they go in the dirty wash. When I get a few I so a rinse and spin cycle (I have 10 practices a week btwn 2) then hang on hooks in the laundry room until dry.
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Anonymous
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All of our swim gear is stored in the utility room: towels, goggles/ caps, equipment, suits, sweats, parkas, etc. Swim bags are packed in the utility room before practice and then unloaded in the utility room after practice.
Towels go in the hamper. Suits and caps go on a drying rack. Dry suits hang on the edges of the rack and wet ones hang on the rods. The back packs and equipment bags are stored there, too. |
Anonymous
They need to be washed. |
Anonymous
+1 all swim gear in my house is in/near the basement laundry room. This is where they go in and out to practice so it works for us. Towels go on the line, suits on a drying rack, wall mounted hooks for bags and parkas. |