Laundry Basket/Hamper

[kdonnel]

It never occured to me that people used clean and dirty laundry baskets.

 

[Lord Manhammer]

It never occured to me that people used clean and dirty laundry baskets.

Would YOU want pet hair on your clean tighty whities?

 

[loves to dive]

We have a canvas hamper sorter thing with 3 hampers for dirty clothes in the laundry room. We also have a hanging bar for clean clothes. Most everything gets taken out of the dryer and folded and put up or hanged in there. I have a separate basket for things like towels and sheets because I hate folding them and tend to put them in the basket after they are dry and leave them there for more time then I should. I use a basket for those so I can carry them to the bedroom to fold them and put them up when I get around to it. I do leave the clean clothes hanging in the laundry room until I do laundry again. I started doing that back when I worked so I wouldn't wear the same thing twice to work in the same week.

 

[firefly_ris]

Same baskets. Never thought about it. If we have super gross clothes from kids coming in or soiled from yard work or mechanical work, they don't go into the basket anyway. They go straight to the wash tub to be treated and await a load. Stuff like that gets grouped and washed separately from everything else anyway.

My current dogs don't shed but my previous dogs were high shedders, but I never had hair on the baskets. But I use mostly smooth plastic baskets, no cloth or something that would have stuff stick to it. The dog fur stayed on the clothes.

 

[RangerPooh]

Same basket for clean and dirty. One hamper in our bathroom, then a blue Ikea bag to carry it to our washing machine (and from the dryer back upstairs) which is in the kitchen. Stupid 1980 home design....

If clothing is muddy or really soiled, I have the person basically remove the clothes in the kitchen so it does not go elsewhere.

 

[TCRAIG]

Different - I’m a laundry ‘snob’…I won’t (for example) mix my kitchen towels with towels from the bathroom - not in the hamper nor in the wash…

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

It has depended on the living situation

Growing up I'd use a canvas sorter, then a plastic hamper to bring it back upstairs from the basement.
In college mesh bags I suppose is what I used and often just brought my clothes home to do laundry
In apartments and rental house canvas sorter, then plastic hamper to bring clothes back to my room
In current home the laundry area is upstairs right by the bedroom my husband and I each have our own laundry canvas sorters (as we always have since we've been together), the plastic hamper is used for dirty towels and I just fold the towels once they are done in the dryer.

So I guess vast majority it's always been separate.

 

[Moliphino]

Would YOU want pet hair on your clean tighty whities?

Hair will be everywhere no matter what I do. There is no containing it.

 

[sam_gordon]

Oh...I leave a trail of clothes. It was either that or put a television in the laundry room.

Or, you know, put them back in the basket and carry it.

 

[kymom99]

We use a laundry basket for dirty laundry only. The clean laundry goes straight from the dryer, is folded as necessary, and then directly put away. It does not go into any laundry basket until it is dirty again.

Same

 

[GAN]

Would YOU want pet hair on your clean tighty whities?

With a Bernese Mountain Dog it's inevitable. Hair. Everywhere. Yes, Everywhere. Forever.

 

[kdonnel]

Would YOU want pet hair on your clean tighty whities?

When we had dogs, hair was everywhere. If I was concerned about dog hair I would NOT have a dog.

I am not under any sort of impression that my clean clothes are at some hospital operating room grade of sanitized and require special handling.

The moment I put on clean clothes they are dirty.

 

[soccerdad72]

I would be dropping clothes all the way between the dryer and where I was folding... hence using the basket again.

We also would struggle getting all the clothes upstairs from the first floor once they're folded - that's another reason we use our laundry baskets - transporting clothes up and down stairs.

 

[tvguy]

I would be dropping clothes all the way between the dryer and where I was folding... hence using the basket again.

Well, our laundry closet is in a bedroom we added onto the house, so folding is done on the couch in that room and the room is only 16 x 16 so maybe a distance of 10 feet from the dryer. But we put away loads are they are done, not all at once. We do about six loads of laundry a week, so 6 trips throughout the process, and a single load of laundry is pretty easy to handle without dropping.

 

[NAB]

Use the same baskets. I have baskets in each bedroom ,bring to the basement dump and sort by colour, towel etc. In each basket wash to dryer use same basket to put folded clothes back in to carry to each room again.

I have seen those dryer things for the laundry room they look cool but no room for that…lol I have a stainless still shelf unit for extra pantry stuff and hang stuff off that…lol

 

[Babs Johnson]

Would YOU want pet hair on your clean tighty whities?

I have two separate fake wicker laundry baskets (lined with removable fabric) for my clothes. But they’re not separate for clean and dirty. They are my hampers.

One is for socks and underwear, the other for everything else. My cat likes to snooze in my underwear basket. Sometimes after I do laundry it takes a while for me to put away my socks and underwear, so kitty snoozes in clean stuff too.

TMI: I haven’t worn tighty whiteys since a few years after college. Mid 1980s at the latest. It went from white briefs to color briefs, to boxers, and now it’s been boxer briefs for about 10 years. All colors and patterns, no white.

 

[sam_gordon]

Well, our laundry closet is in a bedroom we added onto the house, so folding is done on the couch in that room and the room is only 16 x 16 so maybe a distance of 10 feet from the dryer. But we put away loads are they are done, not all at once. We do about six loads of laundry a week, so 6 trips throughout the process, and a single load of laundry is pretty easy to handle without dropping.

Shoot, I drop clothes just getting them out of the dryer. DW will sometimes fold clothes right out of the dryer. I put them back in the bushel and take them to our bedroom to fold. Since it's just her and I, we do 2.5 loads a week. One lights, one darks, and every other week, towels and sheets. DD does her own.

 

[JulieBeeRN]

I have three tall laundry baskets to sort the dirty clothes (darks, lights, whites), so I do use a different one for the clean laundry but it’s more bc I want to use a wider one for folding.

 

[mamamary]

I only use my basket for dirty clothes. After I put the wash in the machine I bring the basket back to it’s regular spot. After clothes are dried I just carry it to my folding spot. My laundry room is really not big at all so I don’t leave the basket in there.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Interesting...this has never crossed my mind!

Honestly, if anyone is dirty enough to make me question putting clothes in the basket/hamper in their room, they're undressing in the laundry room and putting their clothes directly into the washing machine for an immediate wash. It's a common occurrence with DD15s softball gear (although, she's kind enough to dump the dirt trapped in her pants in the yard) and DD17 and I used to do it all the time during our most recent animal shelter volunteering stint. I don't want to go down that rabbit hole of this must be dirty because it came in contact with that, because by that logic, everything would require constant cleaning.