To want to buy a second washing basket?

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I have just removed freshly-washed pillowcases from my washing machine and put them in the same basket as the dirty washing came out of previously (think underpants, socks, etc). How vile!!! .

I should have two washing baskets, shouldn't I?!

OP when moving your laundry about, you are using your hands, the filthy things at the end of your arms.

Please don't tell me you wash your hands when you use the toilet. Meh. If you don't live on your own, the probability is the someone else won't, not all the time, maybe not ever, so every door handle in your house is covered in cack.

Washing baskets are the least of your problems.

I didn't realise people had clean and dirty baskets or that they worried about mixing underwear and tea towels until I read it on here

we may as well put our underwear in the same wash as our tea-towels and we wouldn't do that would we

Why not? What do you think will happen if you do this and how is it different to using the same machine to wash underwear and then tea towels? The dirt is washed away not redistibuted from pants to tea towels.

I have a number of those plastic folding crates that I use to sort dirty washing into colours/darks etc, put clean washing in, put shopping in, moving miscellaneous bits around the house, temporary storage etc etc....
It did cross my mind that I was putting clean washing in something that is probably less than clean but I’m a bit too lazy to care that much about it.

I have a dirty washing basket, and I use an Ikea bag to take the clean clothes in off the line. In winter I just use my hands.

I also wash my underwear with my tea towels.

we may as well put our underwear in the same wash as our tea-towels and we wouldn't do that would we

Erm... Yes. I'd never fill a load if I washed everything separately, and if you are washing things correctly and your washing machine is working, the germs aren't redistributed over everything else...

I wash underwear and tea towels together?

I was putting clean washing in something that is probably less than clean but I’m a bit too lazy to care that much about it

Ha, I carefully didn't say how my washing basket gets used when it's not transferring washing

Also I do put tea towels into wash with underwear (at 40c and just ordinary washing liquid). I'm just not that fussy

Surely this degree of concern about germs isn't, ironically, healthy OP?

No wonder the planet is fucking dying and antibiotic resistance is peaking.

Human beings are a pathetic species. I hope when we're all dead the corvids or super intelligent cats make a better go of it.

I'm off to put my towel and pants and sweaty gym gear all in the same wash, so n'yer.

Jeez! I load the dirty laundry from the big wicker basket on the landing that all dirty clothes etc go in into the "clean" plastic washing basket as whatever fits in 1 basket is 1 load for the washing machine 🤷‍♀️ saves carrying it in my arms & realising once the wash has got part way through that I've left a trail of laundry from the dirty laundry basket to the washing machine.
I honestly can't bring myself to get worked up about dirty stuff having been put in to a basket supposedly only for clean laundry.
I also wash tea towels with underwear & socks 🤷‍♀️ no-one's died yet!
I've got enough on my plate ensuring that the washing is done & the house isn't a filthy hovel to give this much headspace tbh.

Unless you have fecal matter / blood etc on the clothes it should be okay. If you do just spray the basket and clean it while the load is in the machine.

I have 2 laundry baskets and a plastic tub because it is easier. The dirty stuff goes in the regular wicker basket in the bedroom, then on the floor when sorted. I pick a heap to wash and just take it down to the wash.

When it is washed it goes on one basket and out to hang up or to the garage to the dryer. The other basket tends to be used to dump the clean dry stuff in until it gets sorted, larger items go in the tub until they get ironed (curtains etc.).

Not because of germs but so it doesn't get mixed up. I seem to spend my life on laundry.

The way I see it, if it didn't matter then we may as well put our underwear in the same wash as our tea-towels and we wouldn't do that would we?

Eh? Is this a piss-take, OP?

I have the one basket for clean and dirty laundry. It is plastic, so could be easily cleaned if there was visible dirt on it. I have never had clothes so heavily soiled that they left dirt in the laundry basket. Germs, on the other hand, are everywhere, and are generally harmless. This mission to completely wipe them out from our homes is pointless and misguided.

Op, what did your parents do?
What ever they did worked and you made it to adulthood.

I've got 3 dirty clothes baskets and 2 plastic laundry baskets. Really for convenience. Never thought about the germ issue

I have two - mesh basket for dirty laundry, foldable plastic crate for clean laundry. And actually a smaller laundry basket for delicates that I wash separately.

More for practicality than hygiene - there are often more clothes in the dirty washing basket than fit in one wash, so I need a second container for clean clothes!

The way I see it, if it didn't matter then we may as well put our underwear in the same wash as our tea-towels and we wouldn't do that would we?

Er .... it's never crossed my mind. It all goes in together

Oh bloody hell, I have just put my underwear in the same wash as the tea towels, for some reason I thought that the action of hot water and detergent would actually clean them all, isn't that what a washing machine does?

The pro-separate baskets brigade - is your clothing/bedding really so filthy when you remove it from your body that subsequent contact with a plastic basket that then touches clean clothes will contaminate the clean clithes?
Because by that logic you should surely be decontaminating your body every time you get undressed? Preferably with disinfectant?

I've heard it all now

I have three white, plastic IKEA laundry baskets. Stackable when not in use.

Good for sorting laundry into darks and lights, dirty and clean, wet and dry.

I don't wash my clothes at 60 degrees. Am I going to die?

OP do you know that it is actually bad for you to try and clean absolutely all the bacteria in your environment? They’re not all bad! Some are good for us! Away and ferment some kombucha and chill out!!

I tend to put washing straight into the machine (except whites that I have a Laundry bin in utility room for) just put a wash on everyday to keep on top of things. Have a basket for clean stuff.

With DC these is possibly poo,urine drips, snots, food, coughs, dirt from playing in the stress. Yes IMO 2 baskets are necessary.