How do you hang wet swim suits and towels?

[Anonymous]

My kids drap their wet suits and rash guards over the tub wall or throw them up onto the shower curtain rod. I'm happy these things aren't in their room at on the floor, but I'd like a better system. My kids are little, so I'm in training mode with them so that they can do it independently as they age. Does anyone have hooks that they can hang on the tub wall? I don't want to hang hooks on the wall because the suits will drip onto the floor. I don't wash their swim towels every day, either, so I need more hooks in the bathroom for those towels, plus their bath towels. I have 3 kids. What is your system?

[Anonymous]

*drape - not drap

[Anonymous]

I have a coat rack in the basement laundry room. When they were young, I just had them leave them on the kitchen floor (they’d strip down on the kitchen) but now they actually take them downstairs after a shower.

[Anonymous]

Do you own a pool? How often is everyone swimming?

I have my little kids strip by the laundry room and just throw everything in the dryer. Or if it's hot outside, I leave it on the patio.

Having more than one suit per kid helps too.

[Anonymous]

Just throw them into the washing machines with the wet towels for a quick 20 min wash with minimal detergent, and then throw them in a drier.

[Anonymous]

One of these

[Anonymous]

OP here. We don't own a pool. But, we go to the community pool all the time, and, in May and June, the kids are on swim team. So, kids are in teh pool at least 4 times a week. They come in the front door and then go to the bathroom. We don't ahve a basement, and the laundry is in the garage.

[Anonymous]

what about these? I haven't used them in the bath/shower area, but it looks like they'll hold there. I've hung some pretty heavy coats, etc. on these (not these particular ones, but similar) and they hold. Also, easy to remove.

https://www.amazon.com/Command-Double-Nickel-1-Large-Water-Resistant/dp/B01C60C4FU/ref=sr_1_3?crid=26913OOF9D2X7&dchild=1&keywords=contact+hooks+and+strips&qid=1620831169&sprefix=contact+hooks%2Caps%2C144&sr=8-3

[Anonymous]

We have this in the garage. We put towels on this and put it in the sun. We rinse swim suits snd dry them in this. We wash once a week.

https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/lavish-home-bamboo-folding-laundry-drying-rack/5220177?keyword=clothes-drying-rack

[Anonymous]

Pp again. I’d hate to dry towels / wet suits in a bathroom. It just gives off chlorine smell and doesn’t dry as well/ fast enough. This is why I just make the kids bring their stuff down to laundry, and we run it after every swim or just put it on laundry racks to dry.

[Anonymous]

I have year round swimmers. Towels and suits go straight to the laundry and are folded into a towel basket that stays in the laundry room by the swim bags. In summer, I keep a collapsable towel bin in the back of the car stocked with fresh towels.

[Anonymous]

I have a covered back porch, so I’d hang them on a drying rack on the porch so they air dry more quickly than indoors, but don’t get damaged by tons of sun exposure.

[Anonymous]

Couple of collapsible drying racks in the garage, until I can get everything into the washer. Leave bathrobes or fresh towels on the rack so the kids can wrap themselves up after taking off their swimsuits.

[Anonymous]

We have two of these in our main floor laundry/mudroom as well as a wall of coat hooks, which in the summer are really towel and bathing suit hooks. Doesn’t look pretty but is functional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just throw them into the washing machines with the wet towels for a quick 20 min wash with minimal detergent, and then throw them in a drier.

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