Dull question. Where do you keep your dirty wash basket?

[OverByYer]

I’ve just had new wardrobes fitted and being bigger than what I had before, means I’ve lost the space I previously kept my basket.
I don’t know where to put it now! No room in the bathroom. I’m at a loss!
What are your solutions?

in the bathroom next to the washing machine.

Don’t have one. Family trained to dump in machine and I wash every day. A full load gets done straight away, a part load sits in the empty drum.

One in my bedroom, one in dd1's. No space in dd2's room or the bathroom for one.

Last house, tucked neatly into the corner of the landing because there was no space in either bedroom & the bathroom was tiny.

@smeerf I have laundry envy. I’ve always thought a washing machine is better placed in the bathroom.@Lipperfromchipper I can’t even imagine how that works but sounds wonderful.

Thanks for all your suggestions everyone

Ours is on the landing, it is ugly and I'm desperate to replace it. The kids have their own in their rooms.

I'd love to have a system like smeerf but an upstairs washing machine wouldn't work for me.
Ours is in the garage and with the best will in the world I can't see any of us traipsing outside with our dirty socks and pants etc.

We have an Ikea bed with the rolly out storage drawers underneath. We have designated one at the foot of the bed as the laundry basket. It suits both of us as it's not apparently on one side of the room and therefore more accessible to one of us the the other, and it's out of sight.

Two baskets on the landing, one whites and one everything else. The whole family puts their things in and a load gets taken down every day at breakfast and put on for the day. Every evening I take the dry washing off the pulley maid and fold, hang out the finished wet load and take the clean folded clothes upstairs when I go to bed. Everything is always dry overnight on the pulley maid, even if I double layer if I run out of space, even towels - that thing has some serious sorcery.

(We have attractive wicker baskets with lids)

Lidded wicker basket in the spare bedroom.

In the ensuite

In the bedroom, then when I undress at night I can either hang my clothes up if I'm going to wear them again, or they get slung straight into the laundry basket.
Used to have a laundry bag on the back of my bedroom door too, but I've now got space for a basket with a lift up lid, love it as it doesn't take any of my precious time up filling or emptying it.
I do have a separate 'bra & washable make-up pads' net bag hanging in my wardrobe as they go in the machine like that sloven who doesn't hang wash anything

Yes until now had a wicker lidded basket in my room. It will have to be bag in the wardrobe or move some junk out of the spare room and put the basket in there

Ours is kept inside the built in wardrobe.

I keep it in the bathroom, washer is also in the bathroom. Often when I come in from the day I will take my clothes off while I’m sat having a wee and put them straight in the dirty laundry basket. Then head straight to my bedroom afterwards to get my comfy clothes on.

smeerf excuse this but how the f did you manage to get a washing machine upstairs?! Or did you have it delivered up there?

at one point all kids had a laundry basket in their rooms. Now we have one on the landing and it is emptied every day ... to the laundry room in our basement. I love that room.

bluebolts
My DP and friend who is a plumber manhandled it up there, we had to check there was enough room on the landing to turn it round before they went ahead. The toilet is directly to the right of the cupboard so the water/waste pipes don't have far to go. And to the back of the cupboard is another cupboard in the kids room which has power, so the electrician took the power for the light and plug socket from there.

To be honest it was quite expensive (even at mates rates a plumber and an electrician adds up) but we viewed it as part of the kitchen remodel.

We have ours on the landing outside the bedrooms. I take it down to the utility room when it's full.

I have it in the corner of my bedroom. And in fact have cut out the middleman of a laundry hamper and gone straight to putting clothes straight in the washing basket itself.

@fartyface can you explain your logic?

To my mind @smeerf's process requires less double handling, everything is sorted as it goes into a laundry bin then it's visually obvious if there's enough of a specific type to put a load on so no going through and sorting and checking, whereas if everything goes into a single bin every time you want to put e.g. a dark load on you have to separate out the whites etc, which is the definition of double handling.

Unless you're like @happytoday73 and don't separate out laundry types at all surely separate baskets for different laundry types is more efficient.

We used to keep it on our small landing (two Sims squares) between all the bedrooms. I'd put it in our room whenever we had visitors round who'd likely be going upstairs so they didn't have to see our dirty pants. We've now got a stair gate on the landing so it's had to go in our bedroom but the only place it can go is behind the bedroom door which is a bit awkward for my teen step son to have to come in and round the door to put his washing away. Only joking he doesn't put his washing away.

We're moving and don't have an upstairs family bathroom and the landing is even smaller (one Sims square) so it's again going to have to go in our bedroom but it'll not be behind a door this time.

I am at pp saying about their "attractive wicker baskets" as if that somehow means nobody can tell they contain dirty pants and sweaty socks. A laundry basket is a laundry basket, does it need gussying up?

Ours is in the cupboard at the top of the stairs.

Smeerf I used to have that set up in my utility, in fact I did a double take in case it was my old house! It's a great set up.

fartyface there is no double handling, you remove clothes, take them all to the baskets and sort them into the appropriate baskets.

I have upgraded this system, I have 2 single Ikea Pax wardrobes in the spare room, inside I have the pale blue laundry tubs from Ikea on shelves (which fit if you angle them in) each one is for either blacks, lights, whites, darks/uniform and I have a weekly schedule for laundry.

The tub is usually full and I pull out the tub and take it to the washing machine. You get undressed and then take the clothes and put them into the correct tub. Job done, no resorting to remove whites or work out if you have enough to do a load. Visually able to see that.

Curious about those who don’t sort the laundry first. I use Dylon colour catcher sheets but my colours and whites still come out full. Am I using the wrong brand?