How do you keep your clothes warm?

[southardrv]

Just got back from our spring break trip, up in the mountains, with lows at night right around freezing. Our clothes drawers are in one of the slides. And they're closed at night, so they don't get any air circulation from the heat pumps or furnace. By morning, the clothes are at a good approximation of the outside temperature. When it's time to get dressed, I pull out the clothes from the drawers and freeze myself putting them on.

If you also RV in the cold, what do you do to keep this from happening?

I know, I know ... first world problems.

[Sam 3]

Just thinking out loud. Could you lay out your clothes on the back of a dinning room chair or couch to keep warm.

[southardrv]

Originally Posted by Sam 3

Just thinking out loud. Could you lay out your clothes on the back of a dinning room chair or couch to keep warm.

That's a possibility, but it's the skivvies that are most problematic, and I'm too much of a prude to want to leave them out in the plain view of my teenage daughter.

Would something like reflectix in the back wall of the slide, inside the drawer structure, help this? Or, since they're not getting any airflow from the heating at all, would they end up cold overnight?

[Sam 3]

Cover up your skivvies with the clothing. I do this when I must undress for a DR. visit.

[hamm2018]

Originally Posted by southardrv

That's a possibility, but it's the skivvies that are most problematic, and I'm too much of a prude to want to leave them out in the plain view of my teenage daughter.

Would something like reflectix in the back wall of the slide, inside the drawer structure, help this? Or, since they're not getting any airflow from the heating at all, would they end up cold overnight?

Put them under your pillow at night. Sort of cheek to cheek!

[GUS2000]

this is where heated floors are great.. lay them on the heated floor when you go to bed.. then they are nice and toasty the next morning!

[ViperJD]

I am still laughing at some of the pictures my mind created with the above posts! What model of rv are you in? Our furnace heater actually heats two sets of drawers in our Ventana, just because of how the ducting is run. Anything left in the kitchen sink is warm (we store a few things there on travel days...butter container was liquid...), and one section of clothes drawers in bedroom near dryer are also very warm. My wife, when I mentioned, immediately moved my clothes out of that grouping and moved hers in. We swapped left and right side storage for that reason, but still sleep on our same sides of the bed!!! More 1st world problems. :-)

Where does your furnace ducting run, or are you sporting heated floors (we don't)?

[Dutch Star Don]

Put them in the microwave with your morning oatmeal!

We've never had this issue. However, we have heated floors and in really cold weather the coach is toasty.

We both shower in the morning. I put my clothes on the bed, shower and then get dressed.

On another note, the cold doesn't bug me too much, but my wife is not happy if she's cold. We found a small heater about the size of a quart of milk that stands on the bathroom counter and rotates side to side. Perfect for cold mornings when you don't want to blast the heater.

https://a.co/d/c3YSzeR

[southardrv]

Originally Posted by ViperJD

I am still laughing at some of the pictures my mind created with the above posts! What model of rv are you in? Our furnace heater actually heats two sets of drawers in our Ventana, just because of how the ducting is run. Anything left in the kitchen sink is warm (we store a few things there on travel days...butter container was liquid...), and one section of clothes drawers in bedroom near dryer are also very warm. My wife, when I mentioned, immediately moved my clothes out of that grouping and moved hers in. We swapped left and right side storage for that reason, but still sleep on our same sides of the bed!!! More 1st world problems. :-)

Where does your furnace ducting run, or are you sporting heated floors (we don't)?

I'm in a mere Bay Star Sport, for another year or two before the daughter goes off to college and we upgrade to a diesel for more full-time travel. We don't seem to have any furnace ducting that keeps the drawers warm, nor do we have heated floors.

But heated floors are on the list for the upgrade. Sounds like I'll only have to deal with the problem for a short while longer.

[NLOVNIT]

I had a W/D since 2006. Put clothes in on a short dry cycle while I took my shower.

Use a blow dryer to heat them up before putting on.

Get one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Homeleader-Wa...%2C162&sr=8-30

[NXR]

Originally Posted by southardrv

Our clothes drawers are in one of the slides. And they're closed at night, so they don't get any air circulation from the heat pumps or furnace. By morning, the clothes are at a good approximation of the outside temperature.

Ummm, leave the drawers open an inch or two?

Ray

[wildtoad]

Get a “milk crate” storage box, fold skivvies, shirts, pants, socks into crate. Place near heat source. Or put small heating pad in bottom of crate, or skip the crate idea and put heating pad in clothes drawer.

[Brunnie]

Originally Posted by southardrv

That's a possibility, but it's the skivvies that are most problematic, and I'm too much of a prude to want to leave them out in the plain view of my teenage daughter.

What?? You don't want her to see your leopard print undies???

[dons2346]

Go commando, skivvies problem solved. Otherwise,throw them in the dryer for a few minutes