To use the same laundry basket for dirty & clean clothes?

[WineGetsMeThroughIt]

Husband thinks it's gross to use the same laundry basket to collect dirty laundry in, and then use the same (empty) basket to bring the clean laundry back upstairs.

I really don't see the issue with this. It's not like I've been rolling in sh!t all day. My clothes aren't that dirty that I would consider them so contaminated that clean laundry couldn't touch the same plastic basket that the dirty stuff was in.

And this has nothing to do with Coronavirus btw. He thinks corona is a croc of sh!t but that's a whole other story 🤦🏼‍♀️

Do you use the same laundry basket for dirty & clean laundry?

Yup, same basket for clean, dirty, and for use as a pirate ship by the dc

Yes I do use the same bag and thought everybody else did too

I think we share a DH. We have two on his insistence. One for dirty clothes upstairs and one to fold clean clothes into in the utility room to then take up. I actually think it is from an "ease" point of view rather than a dirty clothes / dirty basket issue though.

I don't think you're unreasonable to just have one though.

Same for all here

Kids occasionally use it as boat too

@Fives yes this is my husband. He decided one day that we needed separate baskets. He even went as far as to wipe down and disinfect the "dirty" basket in preparation for its new life as a "clean" basket.

This coming from the same man who will start a massive argument and yell at me every time for wiping down the food shopping because of corona virus, saying it's a pointless waste of time.

He is not a rational human being 🤦🏼‍♀️

YANBU but how the fuck is the ‘dirty’ basket ever empty enough to become a ‘clean’ basket?! I have two dirty laundry storage bag/holder thingies and a clean laundry basket (I don’t iron so everything gets folded straight into the basket off the line/out of the dryer) and they’re all permanently overflowing!

@FourForYouGlenCoco we had 4 I believe (7 now as I've just had to go buy 3 new 'dirty' baskets), but I'll be getting rid of 2 dirty ones since they've seen better days.

There are 4 of us and I leave laundry till it absolutely needs to be done. Then I dump everything out and create colour coded piles on the laundry room floor. Ans then just load the washed straight from the piles on the floor. The clean used to be collected from the dryer / rack and put back into the basket

This coming from the same man who will start a massive argument and yell at me every time for wiping down the food shopping because of corona virus, saying it's a pointless waste of time.

I have separate laundry baskets but I don’t wipe shopping. I guess you just have to accept you’re both different.

Yanbu. Same here. Not used as boat but cat gets in it often (when it's empty) and then looks smug - what's that all about?

We have 2 but they both get used for both. When one is full it gets taken to the basement for washing and drying so we start using the other empty one for dirty. Once all is washed and dried it gets folder and put back in the basket and taken upstairs to be put away. That basket then waits its turn to start as the dirty basket again.

yes, same one.

Buy an additional basket/bag. Let husband do all laundry going forward, you obvs don't meet his exacting standards.

I only have one basket, and it doesn't matter if there is dirty washing in it, or clean folded washing in it, my cats go in the basket with any kind of clothes in it , clean or not clean.

So you have dirty baskets upstairs which you have to take downstairs and then back up again (empty).
Meanwhile, you have clean baskets downstairs which you take upstairs and then back down again (empty).

That's a load of 'make work'. Why on earth do you do it? Let him do his washing how he likes, but the washing you do you will only use one basket for because he's batshit

I have 2 big and small
I use them based on load size
not based on dirty or not, your dh is odd

No, I don't. I have a linen basket for dirty laundry and when it gets full I carry it to the washing machine or I take the stuff out and carry it/wrap i in a dirty towel to carry to the washing machine.

I genuinely do have mild OCD and also I know that some of our household dirty clothes do get very dirty, so I would never put clean clothes in a dirty basket.

I don't think your husband is odd for having an issue with this. Maybe his clothes are dirtier then yours.

But he is wrong not to worry about Coronavirus (although I do not wipe down shopping). I think we all like things how we like them!

WineGetsMeThroughIt

I don’t understand why you think he’s not rational for having separate baskets/wiping baskets but you wiping down shopping is completely rational. Surely if you think your shopping can be ‘contaminated’ then your clothes could be too as they’re bound touch stuff when you’re out. I’m sure the chances of anything transferring on shopping or clothes is tiny, but you can’t say ones rational and not the other. Maybe I’m missing something?

@BadTattoosAndSmellLikeBooze my comment about him not being rationale is because his reasoning for not using the same baskets has nothing to do with corona virus. He just thinks that the clean clothes shouldn't be in the same basket that was used for dirty clothes. He's not given me a rational reason why.

Whereas my reason for wiping down the shopping is because there is science showing that corona virus lives for a specific amount of dependant on the surface it's on. And with people touching things in the shops / distribution centres I felt at the height of the pandemic it was a sensible thing to do to wipe all incoming groceries with a detol wipe just as a precaution. Because there is a chance that a deadly virus may be living on them. I understand the chance is unlikely. But why risk life or death? Whereas he does not believe in the wiping down of groceries, wearing masks, disinfecting surfaces, eye rolls at using hand gel while we're out, yet for some reason feels strongly that dirty clothes shouldn't be using the same basket we use for clean clothes. Not because there's a chance corona could be on them. But because he just thinks it's yucky

Never really given this any thought, but I do have separate ones, yep. Mostly because there's always dirty laundry in one, so it's more convenient if the clean stuff has an empty one to go in.

I always do this. If anyone has an issue with it they are welcome to step in and take over the laundry.

Make him do the laundry. He obviously has very high standards & you are a disgraceful slattern in comparison so it's the only way forward.

Several baskets here and all are interchangeable between dirty and clean and sometimes being used to gather up recycling! Occasional and random wiping if needed (eg after the recycling or if I spilled washing detergent in them).

WineGetsMeThroughIt

I presume whereas you have concerns about coronavirus, he must concerns about something else. He must have thought he was cleaning something off the ‘dirty’ baskets by wiping them presumably. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Maybe dirt/sweat on gym clothes or something like that. We have separate ones because the dirty one would never be empty for the clean stuff to go in it. 🤣 Never ending washing here with 4 of us plus dogs and cats. But also sometimes sports kits are covered in mud and it does sometimes get on the basket.

I didn’t mean to say you were wrong for wiping your shopping, sorry if it came across like that. 💐 I understand your concerns about the virus completely and know lots of people that do wipe their shopping. I decided not to wipe shopping down as then I’d feel I had to wipe everything else that came in the house and to be honest I couldn’t face doing it.

I’m with your husband. I do not want my clean washing in something that has had dirty socks and pants in. Gross.

Someone who yelled at me for wiping something wouldn't be in my presence long enough to know how I organise my washing.