To save money and time when drying your clothes, instead of using dryer sheets or dryer balls, put three tennis balls in the dryer with your load. This saves you money by not having to buy dryer sheets and cuts drying time in half. The tennis balls can be used over and over. They also make your clothes softer. I do this every time.
By blueeyes27 from Peru, IN
This does work but it does not take away static - add a ball of crumpled up aluminum foil with the tennis balls and no more static. Also, you can keep reusing the aluminum foil ball. It lasts a long time.
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Save money on your utility bill by adding a couple of tennis balls to your dryer. It will reduce drying time down 25 to 50%.
I put three tennis balls in the dryer. It fluffs the clothes and there are fewer wrinkles.
I just read about using tennis balls in your dryer when you dry pillows to let them dry evenly. This also works with down coats.
I use tennis balls in the dryer to help fluff clothes. They also cut down the drying time. In the preschool classrooms, they are helpful on the bottom of chair legs to alleviate the noise when moving.
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Is it safe to use tennis balls in the clothes dryer to keep them from balling up?
Jean from Michigan
Yes they are safe. It is an old trick - my grandmother used to throw 2 or 3 tennis balls into the dryer when I was little. For some reason she had cut a slit into each of them (I remember playing with them by squeezing the sides of a slitted tennis ball so that it would "talk," like a little green Pac Man).
