Wash more often. If you wash every day or two, the amount of water in your clothes will not be super significant. If you wash once or twice a week, then your

Wash more often. If you wash every day or two, the amount of water in your clothes will not be super significant. If you wash once or twice a week, then your relative humidity will spike. You can buy super efficient washers, so power consumption is not really an issue (especially in comparison to using a drier). The other thing you can do is to "change the air" in your house every once in a while, especially in winter. Just open the windows and let it breathe. Letting the cold air in reduces the water carrying capacity of the air. When you heat it back up, the relative humidity drops. I know these kinds of things are not common in the UK, but when my wife and I lived in England for 2 years, that's what we did and it works very well.