I HATE AIRING CUPBOARDS

And how many bath mats do I need?!!!!

I have a feeling they don't but I can't remember why...

I once started out by having plastic boxes for towels another for sheets etc. It works up to a point

Many charity shops take sheets and odd pillowcases which, depending on their condition, they may sell in the shop, or sell as rags for industry or, in the case of animal charities, use as bedding for dogs and cats.

Why not store your bed linen in sets? Bottom sheet, top sheet and/or duvet cover and all but one pillowcase put together inside the other pillowcase?

Yes! Alright absent! That is how it starts out!

Seems a shame to open up pillowcases once they've been nicely pressed and folded. Perhaps I could clothes peg them together! Would that work?

Or huge paperclips? I could suggest that to Lakeland.

Query. How many bath mats di need. If you only have one bathroom then two should be suffiently unless you and your husband do not share ,in which case you need four?
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may I ask is a airing cupboard like our utility rooms? Forgive my ignorance but one of the reasons I'm here is to learn. Thanks!

It is the cupboard that the hot water cylinder is in, with slatted shelves on which you can put newly washed/dried linen to air. These days water tanks are so well insulated that airing cupboards are no warmer than anywhere else, and airing cupboards.

Strange cut-off there. What I typed was than linen cupboeards still get called airing cupboards.

That, not than. My hands are cold today, can't type.

thanks!

Elegran! Turn your heating up! You shouldn't be that cold.

No, nothing like utility rooms. I haven't got one of those.

Bread dough rises much more slowly in my airing cupboard since we had a new cylinder with a smart green jacket made to fit. It used to whizz up when we had the old cylinder.

I've probably confused you more now EnviousA. Bread dough raising is a sort of sideline with airing cupboards.

There's no room in my airing cupboard for dough rising activities!

I have seedlings in mine in the past. But they got forgotten about. And died.

#justshove

As more and more people have combi boilers fitted – these don't require a hot water cylinder Enviousamerican – airing cupboards will become obsolete. People will still linen cupboards, but not warm ones.

I haven"t got an airing cupboard , I have a linen cupboard where I store sheets ,sweaters and the like .

I have a linen cupboard but when my combi boiler was taken out and replaced above the calorifier by a compression boiler. I had the old boiler cupboard altered int an airing cupboard by the addition of a radiator and shelves.

And not just bread dough, jingle.demi-johns of home-made wine are at just the right temperature in the bottom of an airing cupboard and it's dark. They nestle quite snugly amidst the dogs' bedding.

Spare dog's bedding, I mean. The dogs do NOT sleep in the airing cupboard!

Just off to see a Steelye Span concert. Haven't heard them for years. Hope there isn't a queue for Carluccio's as I haven't eaten all day!!

Mushrooms, perhaps?

Mine has NO heating

I have no airing cupboard because I have no cylinder, but have a linen cupboard with a radiator at the back which isn't always on. That's a pretty muddled place! How does it manage to have so much stuff when I've got rid of a lot already? And how is it that with so much stuff I can never find what I'm looking for?

We have a traditional/condensing boiler as the pipework instalation to go over completely to a combi boiler was going to be so disruptive so we still have an airing cupboard. The tank is, however, so well insulated it is useless for anything but storage. I have a chest of drawers on the landing with a different drawer for each set of bedding [smugemoticon] I keep the towels in the airing cupboard - it's a blinking mess I prove bread on a baking sheet, on the floor, in the lounge close-ish to the radiator. Progress - pah!!