Swim parents: how do you deal with wet swimsuits?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

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[Anonymous]

outside on clothesline until weather is too cold

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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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.

Same here. We basically have a swim station with hooks for towels and suits, place for swim and equipment bags, etc. Everything stays out there and is is great. No clutter in the house and nothing is every misplaced or lost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

They need to be washed.

I mean, maybe occasionally, but the kids are swimming in bleach every day. How exactly are the suits so dirty?

[Anonymous]

This is OP. I wash all of the suits in one load about once every 10 days. I’m in the same camp as the PP who feels like these suits can’t get that dirty when they’re worn in a pool of chlorine for 90 minutes!

Our gear bags are in the bathroom just opposite the garage. So wish we had a mud room!

[Anonymous]

We have four of these (two large size and two smaller) on the wall in the laundry room.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JG1KP4?ascsubtag=%5B%5Dst%5Bp%5Dcjig3m27b001pg5ye3fb0dajb%5Bi%5DY9yXEE%5Bt%5Da&tag=thestrategistsite-20

They are durable worth every penny. Swimmer (8 practices/week) is responsible for hanging suit to dry on rack, and there’s plenty of space for her and the rest of the family.

[Anonymous]

You should look into a swimsuit spin dryer if your kids are this serious and you don’t have a lot of bathroom or mud room space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

how would the suit still be dripping by the time they get home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ours hang their over their shower rods.

Mine too. I referred to my guest bath as the swim locker room for years.

[Anonymous]

In the summer with daily practice we rinsed and just hung up over the railing at the top of the stairs or the shower. I washed them once or twice a week then hung on sane place. Now DD only practices twice a week I just wash it with a load and hang it over the stairway railing to dry.

[Anonymous]

Hooks in the laundry room so that they can be tossed in with the next load of laundry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

how would the suit still be dripping by the time they get home?

Did you not read the post - the kids hop in the shower with their suits on? Duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the summer with daily practice we rinsed and just hung up over the railing at the top of the stairs or the shower. I washed them once or twice a week then hung on sane place. Now DD only practices twice a week I just wash it with a load and hang it over the stairway railing to dry.

Wow, times have changed. Growing up as a very competitive swimmer, no one washed their suits ever; we swam in chlorine! Washing would have made them wear out faster anyway. We showered in our suits after practice and that probably worked to clean them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have four of these (two large size and two smaller) on the wall in the laundry room.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JG1KP4?ascsubtag=%5B%5Dst%5Bp%5Dcjig3m27b001pg5ye3fb0dajb%5Bi%5DY9yXEE%5Bt%5Da&tag=thestrategistsite-20

They are durable worth every penny. Swimmer (8 practices/week) is responsible for hanging suit to dry on rack, and there’s plenty of space for her and the rest of the family.

We have something similar hanging in our laundry room and it’s great. I make my swimmer rinse out his suit, wring and wrap in a towel to dry a bit, then hang on the rack. I never wash the suits in the washer - it makes the material wear out much faster. Hand wash in the sink every now and then. I agree they are swimming in chlorine and the rinsing helps keep them clean so they don’t need to be washed that often.

The swim bag, equipment bag, etc hang in the mud room.

[Anonymous]

Ikea drying rack in laundry room. Has been a life saver for last decade of swim parenting.