natural humidifier?

[Minoh]

Does anyone have any suggestions for ways to increase the humidity level in a house/room without using a humidifier? Our home seems so dry this winter. There's a lot more static in the air and my nose is very dry.

Maybe are there any plants you would recommend that are especially useful for this, or any other ideas?

[alsoSarah]

I love running a vaporizer/humidifier in my bedroom at night!

Is there something god-awful about them that I haven't heard?

alsoSarah

[Minoh]

No, I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with a humidifier, it's just something else to buy and plug in . The only thing I thought might be a problem is if mold grows, but I'm not sure if it's humidifiers are very prone to mold growth or not.

Maybe a humidifier is something worth investing in then?

[MidwifeErika]

I dry clothes indoors on drying racks. This is my cheap dryer and cheap humidifier My clothes and diapers hold up better too than going through the drier all the time.

[Realrellim]

There's the very low-tech method of filling bowls or cups of water and leaving them around the house so they can evaporate. A fish tank might work too (and if you don't have any fish, it will be really easy to clean too!).

[alsoSarah]

I only use vaporizers, and it's because I'm paranoid that with cool-mist humidifiers, I might be effiently culturing and distributing mold spores.

The water in the vaporizer reaches boiling before it leaves, so....

That's my (possibly goofy) rationale, at an rate.

alsoSarah

[sohj]

This winter we've really been having trouble with this...or, I'm just noticing it more.

My ideas:

--Plants that like moisture and keep one watering them.
--Drying clothes like mentioned above. (Of course, considering how fast wool socks have dried in my apartment, I'm not sure this isn't like humidifying the Gobi Desert with a canteen.)
--Taking showers with the door open, leave the plug in and leave the used water in the bottom of the bath to evaporate.
--Cooking stuff that makes steam.
--Drinking LOTS of water and tea.
--Dip towels in water and hang to dry when you don't have any laundry drying.


And I still use a hot air humidifier.