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If you don't mind hanging clothes in the bathroom, what I do is : I have an additional adjustable shower curtain rod that I put into the middle of my shower over the tub to hand wet clothes on. If I want to dry them quickly or overnight, what I do is put a space heater in the bathroom, and turn on the fan which vents humid air out, and I place a large fan in the bathroom. This basically turns the bathroom into a dryer. Works great. Doesn't deal with lint, but that's not a huge problem when you're just drying them on hangers.
Definitely not as convenient as an automatic dryer, but it works for me.
If you have a washer with spin dry, they wont' need a lot of drying anyway.
If you don't already have a washer, I have a small Panda brand washing machine with a spin dryer. Bought it on Amazon. I can hook it up to the water in my bathroom sink. Then I just hang everything up to dry - either on my balcony if the weather is dry, or in the shower/tub in the bathroom.
They make a lint trap you can use with a conventional dryer that uses water to trap the lint so you don't have to vent it outside. I have no direct experience with them, but I sold a ton of them in a previous life and nobody ever complained so they must work to some extent. They run less than $20.
We had one in college. Since the winters were freezing, and the air was always so dry, it didn't bother us one bit to have it in the kitchen.
Living in a more humid climate I'd possibly be afraid of all the moisture, although with a proper exhaust fan It might do well.
They make a lint trap you can use with a conventional dryer that uses water to trap the lint so you don't have to vent it outside. I have no direct experience with them, but I sold a ton of them in a previous life and nobody ever complained so they must work to some extent. They run less than $20.
Mine was $35 and I still have a messy lint problem.
Window and outside wall are too far away to run a tube.
They make a lint trap you can use with a conventional dryer that uses water to trap the lint so you don't have to vent it outside. I have no direct experience with them, but I sold a ton of them in a previous life and nobody ever complained so they must work to some extent. They run less than $20.
We tried one of those when I was a kid, with the idea that the heat would be a good thing to hold onto in winter.
One load later, with condensate water literally running down the interior walls, and it was never used again. It wasn't misty; it was like someone had sprayed the room with a kitchen sink sprayer.
Not sure paying a fortune in power to first heat and then chill the air is any great idea. I'd still recommend a good drying line (slow but free and effective for necessary laundry), occasional trips to a laundromat dryer as needed, and a little planning as a better option unless the OP owns the place and will be there a long time.
What about venting a small dryer through a window, temporarily as necessary, like a portable AC unit?
Using a dryer without a vent is like using a portable A/C without a vent hose to get the hot air out blare.
Cloths won't dry sly if it can't be vented.
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Ventless is the only way to go
