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 yes two baskets, or have a washer dryer so clean clothes can go and be packed away straight afterwards.

Yes I have always had 2

3 can’t make it work any other way. I think 4 would be needed with a tumble dryer and big family. Couldn’t see how 1 would work.

Clothes today are not dirty and germ ridden are they really? In the scheme of things does it really matter

What?!? No!

I have two large baskets in the utility room, one for lights, one darks. A fold up basket for bedding, towels and PE kit is also on the draining board.

I have two oval baskets which are used to carry dirty washing down, clean washing out to the line and then upstairs. It's all fine. No one is ill. Fucks sake if separate baskets are needed it's even more ridiculous. I am very fussy and organised but separate baskets? Fuck no.

I have 5 and there’s only 3 of us live here. How do you manage with one?

basket for dirty clothes
basket for clean wet clothes
Basket each for DCs - they put their own clothes away
Basket for miscellaneous stuff —that never gets put away—
The dirty clothes basket has a broken handle and I’m considering chucking and not replacing it to streamline my system. One basket only is madness.

I have a 'dirty washing' basket and a 'putting away after the wash' basket I don't think it's unreasonable! It's useful especially if you have more than one load to do

My first 'basket' is technically a washing 'bag' with handles where dirty washing goes. The clean 'basket' is actually a basket. However I'm sure any recepticle will do!!! Having 2 definitely helps

It was a while ago but for a post graduate course I had to look at how infective clothing is the evidence was that it doesn't transfer that easily so even if there's nasty bacteria or viruses on clothing after washing there either isn't enough to be infective or it doesn't pass on to skin.

The only case of infections I found in studies that could be traced to clothing was scrubs that had lint on and shed into wounds when staff were completing surgery.

When clothes dry/ tumble dry / are ironed this reduces bacteria as well.

There may be other studies now but it's much more complex than we realise, for example surgical gloves pick up and transfer more bacteria and viruses than hands (hence why they should be used for one procedure).

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?

I do, and guess what.. I wash in cold water! I've never run a hot cycle ever.

People in other countries wash in cold -Australians, and pp said Japanese as well.

I read that as two washing MACHINES and was about to say what a good idea.

It astounds me what some people worry about, it really does.

I don’t mean to shock you, but when my children were toddlers they would sometimes (often) climb into the laundry basket and pretend it was a boat/train. I’m pretty sure the basket would at some point have held dirty laundry. You’ll be pleased, and possibly surprised, to learn they are all healthy and well as teenagers.

I have one wicker basket on the landing for dirty stuff. Everything is washed, dried and ironed then carried by me or whoever's about upstairs. I do own a plastic one supposed to be for clean stuff but never use it. No one has died here either.

What the fuck?
Don't you know that bacteria is good for you?!
Have some biscuits lovelies

Oh forgot to mention..I don't have a basket at all. BOOM!

I will either Win The Thread or get booted off with a cattle prod.

I have FOUR washing baskets (tall ones) White/Light Colours/Dark Colours/Black.
Makes my life 100x easier if my offspring put their dirty clothes in the right one ( and empty the pockets, do up zips and turn everything except socks, inside out)

Baskets - I have two regular ones , a squishy solid one and one with legs. (To save my ancient back when hanging out) .
I can never bloody find them, usually they've migrated into my son's room.

I don’t mean to shock you, but when my children were toddlers they would sometimes (often) climb into the laundry basket and pretend it was a boat/train. I’m pretty sure the basket would at some point have held dirty laundry. You’ll be pleased, and possibly surprised, to learn they are all healthy and well as teenagers

My DS used to put the washing basket on his back and pretend to be a tortoise . Despite my shockingly tardy parenting hes scraped his way to 19yo.

Oh my! This has never even cross my mind. I am obviously utterly disgusting. I also wash knickers and tea towels in the same wash. And bizarrely, I'm still alive to tell the tale.

As previous posters have said, no wonder there are so many allergies.

As well as my thousands of pop up baskets (used indescriminately for clean or dirty) I have one average hard basket. Also used indescriminately for clean and dirty... That one I use to bring the food shopping from the car to the house too!

Sorry I don’t understand...so you have a laundry basket for dirty Laundry, but not a washing basket? Aren’t they completely separate things?

I have a laundry box with a lid that dirty laundry goes into. I take the dirty washing out and put it in the washing basket for the machine. When it's washed I put it back into the washing basket. This washing basket has been infected by the dirty washing and so I really should put the freshly-cleaned laundry into another basket for clean-only clothing.

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That was really interesting, thank you. I tumble dry but of course until now have been putting those dried clothes back in the basket that I took the dirty clothing downstairs in.

Looks like I need that second basket/laundry bag and seems I'm not alone. Thank you all.

3 laundry baskets (one on landing, one in dds room, one in ds's room)
Big shopping bags for transferring washed/dried stuff
Everything goes in to wash together

I thought that was normal

Bloody hell...reading back through the thread ...how big are your houses to have so many baskets for transferring arsey/non arsey laundry about?!