Doing the laundry can be a time-consuming and arduous task. It's even worse when you're the parent of a young child and have about a million other things to be getting on with. The last thing you want to be distracting you from your oh-so-precious me-time is realizing that your baby grows aren't trying as fast as you thought they would.
And while, in an ideal world, we'd all use tumble dryers all of the time, this sadly isn't possible. To begin with, not everyone owns one, and they're pretty notorious energy guzzlers which are bad for the environment to boot.
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Thankfully, one parent has recently shared a genius hack that will ensure your baby grows dry a lot faster, and when you discover how beautifully simple it is, you'll understand why the post has been shared over 30,000 times!
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As the picture above demonstrates, when we're hanging up clothes, and that includes baby grows, our first reaction is to reach for the peg basket, but when it comes to keeping your little one's babygrows fresh and clean, you're better off thinking outside the box and hanging them upside down using the poppers!
"Omg why did no one tell me about this hack sooner!!!" the parent wrote on the post which has had over 56,000 comments.
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"I've been doing this for ages," wrote one mom in response, before revealing," I also do this with other clothing items that have similar fastening ie dungarees, rompers, baby dresses, even bras."
Another parent then suggested that this hack could be improved upon by simply folding the baby grows over the line:
"What's the hack here? Hanging things up to dry? Here's an improvement on it, don't hook the baby grows on, just fold them over. You'll fit the same amount on, they'll dry just as quick but it'll take you a fraction of the time to hang them up and collect them in again. #LifeHack"
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Not all parents, however, were in favor of the hack and many said that it would take them longer to do up the poppers on their child's baby grow than peg it up - undoing any time saved.
"I find this hard enough to do 3 of the little snap buttons up when installing correct way up on a small child, this I believe would be physically impossible for any male to do consecutively for that many onesies!! Give me pegs!!" wrote one parent.
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Another added, "I don't even do them all up when battling with my wombfruit at change time... who the hell got time to do this sh*t on the clothes hanger."
However, that's not the only babygrow hack that parents have been sharing online.
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Facebook user Megan Rollins shared her ingenious hack for storing your baby's onesies. Once again utilizing the poppers, she demonstrated how you can hang several babygrows from one regular clothes hanger.
She captions the image: "I came up with a closet hack. Feeling like a genius for figuring out how to store the millions of onesies Rylie owns."
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I have to admit, Marie Kondo would be so proud.
What do you think? Are these hacks going to save you time, or is ti more hassle than it's worth?