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?!

I have a laundry basket for dirty clothes, but my clean washing doesn't go in there, I use one of those huge heavy duty shopping bags you get in some supermarkets (and for free in French supermarkets) as it can be folded up and shoved down the side of the washing machine when it's not in use.

Some people have far too much spare time if they post rubbish like this! It'll be complaining about how exhausting life is next. Are people really so incapable of making a pretty innocuous dicision?

You seem nice, LadyRannaldini.

@ruleofthree Wed 17-Apr-19 14:34:11
I'm just amazed there's such a big bunch of us using our IKEA blue bags! (Misses point of thread)

I use one too. Dirty washing gets left on the floor in the bathroom because we are slovens then if I don't tumble dry it, I use a blue bag to take it to the airer.

@YourSarcasmIsDripping

I see what you mean, but I work in that environment and am potentially coming home with a lot of that stuff iyswim?

Sorter baskets for dirty laundry. That way when a basket is full you have a full load ready to go in.

Separate baskets, different style or color entirely, for collecting clean laundry.

Yanbu. It's much more practical.

I have two. One for clothes and one for sheets and towels.
I even have a mini basket for wet flannels and muddy clothes.

We have a canvas laundry bag for dirty clothes, and a blue ikea bag for ironing that needs doing and sits in the ikea bag for 3 weeks.

The only time I wouldn’t wash something with my tea towels is if the toddler has sharted or im washing the dog bed.

Just wipe the basket round. It will be fine. You are being germ phobic. A few germs are very good for you and your microbiome. The hospital recommends a 60 degree wash because if the risk of hospital superbugs. You don't have that risk at home.

I see what you mean, but I work in that environment and am potentially coming home with a lot of that stuff iyswim?

In that case isn't it more important that your work clothes are separated from the rest of the household laundry than pants and tea towels?

I have a dirty linen basket that lives in the bathroom. The dirty clothes are then transferred from the basket, usually I use a dirty bath towel to bundle everything in, grab the edges and heave downstairs to the utility. There I have a selection of truggs and the dirty is sorted, washed, out to line to bed dried, sorted again to what needs ironing and what doesn’t. Then sorted into each persons pile from them to take up and put away.
God I never realised I am putting so much effort into doing laudry😩

Don't google re-usable toilet paper op

I do in fact have several laundry baskets n the vain hope someone will actually put their unwashed ( as opposed to dirty , because i wsear i wash clean clothes ) in into the basket . I have 6 large baskest on shelves in my utiitly room

1. Rooled and folled clean toweels ( damn you Marie Kondo )
2. Clean paired socks and sons clean boxers as I am blowed I am going to sort them
3. I basket for son 1 , I will put his washed clothes in here
4. basket for son 2 , as bove
5. basket for clean folled and rolled tea towels and other cleaning clothes

6 basket of crap

why on earth would anyone think that worn under wear is going to contaminate everything it gets in contact with ........surely you should also have a separate basket for underear if thats the case , in fact a separate basket for under wear for everyone in the house !
Go the whole hog , have a separate machine for every item ..you can never be too safe

Having sex must make things interesting , just wrap all your bits in cling film?

You would laugh at me. I have about 8 washing baskets. Family of five, with heaps and heaps of laundry. The baskets have also come handy more than once round the house, to temporarily house stuff to make it portable during house renovation etc. I also got 6 or 7 washing up bowls mainly for soaking and handwashing, enough to separate the colours. They also have good general use round the home. And wait for it, two washing machines. Couldn’t cope with one when the other one broke. All I seemed to do every day is laundry, from morning till night. With two machines I can do the week’s laundry - 8 loads in a day. Makes it so much more manageable.

Of course!

I have a laundry bag for dirty clothes and two plastic baskets for clean washing and clean dried clothes.

If you only have one basket then yes you're effectively getting faecal bacteria and potentially viruses e.g. norovirus (both yours and anyone who has used the toilets you've used) from the arse of your pants on to your pillowcases and clean clothes!

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

Errr why not? I wash underwear with clothes, with teatowels, are you not supposed to?

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?

Well, I would - but I guess some might if you don't want salmonella transferring to gussets

Errr why not? I wash underwear with clothes, with teatowels, are you not supposed to?
We were taught in home economics not to, admittedly that was around the last ice age but old habits die hard!🤣🤣

Dp has piles of washing for every different thing, all the whites only, all the towels only, bedding in a separate wash, heavy work gear (to be fair they are overalls that are filthy and stink!)

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

@Oblomov19 Wed 17-Apr-19 16:35:16
why not? I wash underwear with clothes, with teatowels, are you not supposed to?

Because if you're washing on a low heat (say 30c or 40c) then there are still bacteria in the wash, which transfer from your underwear to your tea towels.

If you boil wash at 90 then it's fine to put them all in together though.

One tall basket next to the washing machine for dirty laundry to go in.
Two for taking clean laundry out to the line and staying in til I can be bothered to put it away

Anybody on Mumsnet ever heard of the "Hygiene hypothesis"?

somewhereovertheroad
I hadn't heard the term so Googled. I have heard the theory ( but didn't know the name) it makes sense!

Lilabet, I'm just not sure. Like a pp says, I think that rule goes back to the dark ages, of not mixing and using a mangle to get the water out of your washing!!

I suspect that Nowadays there isn't that much bacteria generally, and most clothes don't actually like/benefit from being washed at 60 or 90°.

bedding maybe, but most every day clothes don't get that dirty and pants and for most people: socks can go in with jeans and T-shirts and tea towels and everything else. I suspect because I believe that modern day washing machines do actually get clothes very clean.

And we are all used to this now, and are less susceptible to germs and being ill, generally.

I have 3 and a dirty washing bag. When I take things off the line and / or tumble drier, I fold up his / mine and household things like towels, sheets, etc. and put them into the different baskets. The laundry bag is for all dirty stuff.

And I wash underwear with tea towels and anything else that needs washing (sorted into whites/coloured/cottons/synthetics, etc.