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?

I wouldn't mix dirty and clean clothes but definitely use the same basket !

I have a wooden bin with a fabric liner that can lift out as a dirty laundry basket, and then a plastic basket for carrying wet and dry laundry about between the house and washing line.

I don't really have an issue with using the same basket for clean and dirty laundry, though, as long as it's not both at the same time. My clothes are rarely badly dirty unless I've got muddy somewhere. I guess I might feel differently if I shared a house with someone who regularly had oily or muddy clothes though.

@Findahouse21

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

Same in my house, row, row, row the boat prop. I did used to clean the basket each time when youngest was a baby, and was always being sick and having nappy leaks. I gave up when all that stopped though.

Lol thanks for the insight into all your laundry routines ladies. Just to clarify, we do split the laundry quite often. Although I don't let him do mine, so I don't have to worry about that. Each person has a laundry basket (one in each of the kids rooms plus separate ones for husband and I) it just seems like such a pain to keep extra (bulkier) baskets for the clean stuff. Needless to say, I'm not a stickler about it so have no issue using my own basket to carry dirty down and clean up in so I continue to do that if it's convenient.

My laundry basket is just for clean clothes. They can be damp (from washing machine to clothes line) or dry (from clothes line to airing cupboard) but they must be clean!

Dirty clothes go in one of seven laundry hampers (sorted by wash type) and are carried to the washing machine bundled up in a dirty towel or similar.

yanbu
I do the same.
does he want to take over the family's laundry as 'his' chore?

We have separate baskets. DP prefers it, and I’m not bothered one way or the other, so that’s how we do it.

However, if he yelled at me about that, wiping down shopping or whatever, I would be seriously re-evaluating the relationship.

Do you mean the actual hamper you chuck your clothes in at the end of the day, or the basket you then use to take washing to machine?

One basket here. I have never given it a moment's thought though there isn't room to store a second one anyway. (No separate utility room so it livea in the coat cupboard in the hall when not in use.)

Everyone has a wicker laundry hamper in their bedroom for lobbing dirty clothes until collection.

Any really dirty clothes (anything with sick, poo, menstrual blood etc on) goes in a laundry bucket with lid, to pre soak in some soda crystals before going in the machine - doesn't actually touch the lone washing basket.

Washing basket has never been "wiped". We are all still alive.

We have four laundry baskets that stack, I did not buy them. Maybe it’s a DH thing.

We also have a hamper in the bedroom for the dirty clothes, then one plastic basket that I use for carrying laundry around.

So a dirty item goes:
into the hamper, then taken out and put into the basket, then carried to the washing machine, washed, then back in the basket and out to the garden, then folded back into the basket, carried upstairs and put away.

My cats do that and look smug too

@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?

I assume it's plastic?

Your husband is an idiot.

If he doesn't like it, he can do it himself

Separate baskets here.

@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?

Well, he's just volunteered to do the washing now. And he can buy himself an extra basket.

Well done him!

I have the laundry hamper where the dirty clothes fester till I take them out and put them in my one and only basket to carry them down to the washing machine. Once washed, the wet clothes go back in the basket back upstairs to the dryer rack then once dry folded into piles on the bed and straight to the wardrobe/drawers.

I've never considered the clean clothes in a dirty basket thing before, may have to reconsider how I do this from now on.

@WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat

We use a whicker hamper type thing for our laundry and after it's been used and contents laundered, one of the servants burns behind the stable and we order a new one from Fortnum & Mason.

I assumed everyone did this. Feel a bit silly now

Really don't see the problem unless the clothes are ridiculously soiled. Our clothes just dont get that way

Where do you store so many "clean" baskets?!

He sounds completely fruitloop.

If you put a "clean" basket next to a "dirty" one, can he tell the difference?

[quote WineGetsMeThroughIt]@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 🤦🏼‍♀️[/quote]
As long as he's doing the laundry then he can do it as he wants.

I'm with your husband although I do have issues with thoughts of 'contamination' although weirdly enough I don't wash shopping in these covid19 times although I think if I started that it would spiral very rapidly.
We have a dirty washing bin next to the washing machine - one dark and one light and all dirty laundry is placed in that. The basket is only used for transporting clean wet / dry clothes

I have one for clean and one for dirty but that's just because I have one small enough to carry clean to the washing line and back and the dirty one to hold what feels like two tonne of never ending dirty clothes. But my "dirty" washing basket isn't dirty and had I less laundry I'd just have one. Your DH is being daft.

I suppose if he's volunteering to do all the laundry (he is, right? By having a go at how you do it?) then that's good.

One for clean and one for dirty here. My dirty basket is very rarely empty, so if I put clean clothes in it, they would be going ontop of dirty stuff! Dirty basket never moves. Clean basket goes where needed.

We have one collapsible basket in the bedroom for dirty laundry and an old crate (formerly was a Tesco delivery crate) for wet clothes to the line and dry clean clothes to the bedrooms. This lives in the utility room.

I use the same one for both and the kids play in it too.