I use a clothes drying tree... ok, I make a forest of clothes drying trees.It's mostly about saving energy for me. I put a little fan under my forest so my clothes aren't there all week.

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I don't put any of my clothing in the dryer except to fluff on no heat for a few minutes. I only wash what will fit hung over the bath tub at one time and usually by hand. That may mean washing a little every day. Usually what is washed in the morning can be moved to hang from a towel rack or something later because, while damp, it is no longer dripping. I can stretch or shake wrinkles out of most things too. I use plastic hangers to hang shirts and other tops unless a loose knit. Washing and drying this way avoids dry cleaning and pilling. Good luck. You might try thrifting and replacing often.

Thank you everyone for chiming in with their own approaches! For now I've adopted two mitigation strategies: 1) demote a few pairs of jeans that already stretch too much in one wearing, to dryer-safe, and 2) buy less! Or adopt a version of 1-in 1-out, so that the number of air-dry pieces remains about the same.

I'm definitely still on the hunt for easy-care (dryer-safe) pieces, though, especially casual tops and pants. My two pairs of all-cotton BF jeans have held up wonderfully through repeated laundry cycles. I could add a white pair this summer, or perhaps a pair of wideleg pants.

I don't dry any of my jeans or 95% of my tops either. I find they last a lot longer that way.

My washer is front loading and high efficiency so clothes come out quite dry already thanks to the spin cycle but I just hang items on hangers and put them on the metal shower door structure to dry, usually after a day they're ready (usually I am the bottleneck not the clothes needing more time to dry).

Eta I feel the pain of the folks that don't have in unit laundry. Prior to where we live now we rented an old home and the pressure was so low the washer refused to work so I was left lugging laundry for our family of 4 to the corner laundromat - using my double stroller of course. Lol I know I got looks but I don't care. When we bought this condo the absolute first thing I bought was the stacked full size washer and dryer and nearly daily I tell DH it is the best thing about living here. It's in the kitchen but again I don't care bc it's inside my home.

In Australia it always feels a bit wrong to put things in the dryer when we have so much sun - I mainly use the dryer to give a quick five minutes to shirts so I can avoid ironing lol! Or I use the dryer if it rains for a week or so - but this is rare. I can of course see the need for a dryer in a different climate!
Thinking of wear on clothes I try not to leave fragile items in the sun for too long - so here we have the opposite problem!