Just wanted to pat myself on the back and show you a pic of my improved laundry-drying system. Not one line of laundry, but two (whoa!) across the length of my balcony! Yes, I had to take down my indoor wall-hanging rack and didn't have enough space on a single line for all my clothes. Fortunately, I realized I had enough rope to double back... don't know why I didn't think of it before. The rope is held up by a flower-pot hanger on one end and two different eye hooks on the other. Nothing heavy duty and it works just fine. I just string the rope up whenever I do a load.
I know you don't have a convenient place to string up some rope, but I find apartment dwellers can get some pretty dry clothes from free-standing racks (like this one from IKEA). You'll need to get a couple to dry a full load of clothes, but air drying is easier on the environment (and on your jeans, which I know you tend to shrink on that high-heat cycle!) Depending on how much laundry you do, you'll recoup the cost of those racks pretty quickly (dryers eat up a lot of quarters).
Other fun things to do with drying equipment: Use these octopus-looking unmentionable dryers (also from IKEA) for plastic bags. I hung the green version above my kitchen sink and let all my pastry and ziploc bags drip dry. Highly recommend over slipping them on wine bottles like I used to do.
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