> Use evaporative humidifiers

You don't have to buy one either. A suspended wet towel with a fan blowing on it will work very well. If you want to get fancy, have the last inch or two of the towel sitting in a tray of water.

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jgalt212 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

That's a permanent bachelor design aesthetic.

	▲	Etheryte 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Turns out young me was on to something, I wasn't just leaving wet towels laying around, I was fixing the air humidity problem.

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loloquwowndueo 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But then I have to buy the towel and the fan, the tray, something to suspend the towel at the right height …

	▲	dependency_2x 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is cheaper, and the towel and fan can be repurposed. Just buy a 3D printer for making the the suspension part (/jest)

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abraae 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My brother's house in Perth, Australia has an antique air conditioning system in the roof space that works in exactly this principle. 4 blankets that wick up water and have air drawn through them and into the house by a fan. It's in disuse now but I understand they were common and quite effective in the day.

	▲	devilbunny 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They're usually called "swamp coolers" and are very effective iff you have very low ambient humidity. Utterly useless in humid climates.

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piskov 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I’m not sure that has a performance of 0.3L per hour (needed when it’s real cold outside).

But any thing beats nothing, I guess. Kudos to you