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?!

Surely you should be air drying the dishes and cutlery?

That's another thing I have to think through. Probably another thread, but which is more hygienic - a dishwasher or hand-washing? I can't decide!

Maybe teach your DH to wipe his arse?

Even a wiped arsehole isn't sterile.

I have six washing baskets.

I have a unit of 4 ikea trofast tubs for whites, blacks, colours and woollens/delicates. People sort their own washing into it. When one tub fills up the stuff is washed then the tub used to carry the clean clothes for sorting. Every so often I scrub them out.

I also have two plastic baskets for collecting towels and bedding for washing.

Why do you want to live in sterile conditions op?

We aren't supposed to, at all.

Are you OK? I think you might need a chat with your GP.

Maybe get rid of the arsehole if he bothers you that much?

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You are acting like it's suddenly all so disgusting and you can't even bare the idea of germs... but have used 1 for how many years??
I have 2 but it's purely for ease one, one for dirty and one where the clean clothes live until I pack them away.
I think you are being extremely dramatic for someones who only decided they want another one today, and then had to ask others if you do indeed need an extra one

Bonkers

I have 2. Identical so stack into each other and live in the corner in front of the tumble dryer when not it use.

One you empty the clean wet washing into. Move it across to tumble dryer. Load tumble dryer. Refill washing machine. Washing machine finishes. Tumble dryer finishes. Empty dry clothes into one and take upstairs. Empty wet clothes into other and move across. Simple system!

DH broke one of the handles of the baskets so I got a new one but kept the old one. Would never be without 2 again! Quite fancy 3 as I can't always be bothered to empty the dry clothes out quickly even though it would stop them creasing and reduce ironing

Although I have two wicker baskets for dirty laundry and two plastic baskets for laundry to the line and as an ironing Basket I now feel the need to go home and wash the linings of the wicker bins and zoflora the plastic baskets. Something I've never thought about or felt the need to do before reading this!

I'm just amazed there's such a big bunch of us using our IKEA blue bags! (Misses point of thread)

There's 101 different uses for Ikea blue bags that have nothing to do with shopping at Ikea.

Very popular amongst all sorts of sporting types for carting kit around for a start.

I prefer the canvassy type supermarket bags for life myself.

Has anyone ever died, or even become unwell, from encountering a dish cloth that’s been thrown in the wash with some underwear?

I don’t understand how some posters have the time to overthink so much. It must be exhausting.

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

Errrr, yes...

You are acting like it's suddenly all so disgusting and you can't even bare the idea of germs... but have used 1 for how many years??

I know it's weird, but sometimes I just have realisations after years of not paying much attention to a subject. Suppose I was following what mum did all these years too. I have been doing auxiliary work at the local hospital and I think all their training on handwashing, disinfection and so on has just got me upping my game a bit.

I am also a person in need of a second basket. I either clean my basket with an anti bac cleaner then put the clean washing in or I carry the washing and put it down somewhere which is hopefully clean while I sort it out

Maybe get rid of the arsehole if he bothers you that much?

For instance, as part of my training we did that handwashing test (Wash & Glow Infection Control Training) where they put stuff on your hands and then they check them for germs under a UV light.

Mine still had small patches that hadn't come off. I was horrified!!! The lady said I had dry skin which meant it was more difficult to clean my hand properly, so I've been moisturising like crazy and using disposable gloves at home for certain tasks whereas I wouldn't have before. My hands, however, are drier than ever right now because we have to use alcohol gel every time we enter or leave one of the wards.

Is anyone in the house immunocompromised?

I mean. Seriously. No one with a normal immune system will get ill from washing pants with tea towels at 40 degrees. That’s what the washing powder is there for. To get stuff clean.

But have any of your family ever become ill due to laundry in all the years you were using one basket?

The hygiene standards required in a hospital are much higher than what is reasonable in the average home.

The NHS has a huge problem with germs not being brought under control, with devastating consequences. I must admit working there has been missing with my mind a bit

So what happens if you wash your underwear and tea towels together? And what happens if your clean washing touches the dirty washing basket?

You’d hate me. My teatowels/wiping up cloths are old flat nappies. Boil washed every time.

Yes but there is a reason hospitals are breeding grounds for antibiotic resistant infections, and not the average family home.

I use the massive Lidl bags (used to be the big Costco ones until they stopped selling them) to move dirty, wet, clean washing as well as shopping hangers and for when we travel in the car. I'm in a small 2 bed terrace so space is at a premium so I don't have washing baskets just bags that do everything.

It's a hospital...with very sick people,ill relatives, blood,puke,urine etc getting on things. Crowded waiting rooms with people that have colds,germs and god knows what else. Not to mention staff, contractors etc.

They will have higher standards because 1.cross contamination is more likely and 2.the germ soup is thicker and bigger. Especially since certain things could kill an already weakened patient.

You are in a household with a few people,with at least average immune systems,exposed to normal germs. You don't need a hazmat suit!!

I’ve got two - but only because I do so much washing