'A £9 hanging dehumidifier saved my flat after all our shoes and coats got mouldy'
It's the words no one ever wants to hear: "Tom, all our shoes and coats are mouldy." Was I upset? Yes. Was I surprised? Absolutely not. There's been a leak in my roof for two years that no one wants to fix, we open our washing machine door with a piece of string and the extractor fan hasn't worked since before I moved in like four years ago. The fact I didn't think we'd need a hanging dehumidifier by our coat rack is probably my bad at this point. When I say mouldy, I mean it - the fuzz covered unused shoes and our autumn jackets, leaving our much more used winter coats untouched. It's one of those things where if you're not checking up on it, suddenly it pounces on you. Blitz washing all of our coats on 60 degrees and hoping at least a few of them would come out not shrunk, we needed a solution. But thankfully, a mum came to the rescue. Specifically my flat mate's mum, who sent us a care package of hanging dehumidifiers. I try to stay scep...