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 use separate baskets. Make sit easier to remember when there's been norovirus as there is lower risk of contamination.

We use separate baskets. I admit that I can be a bit OCD re. cleaning, although I don't mind a bit of normal mess, kids toys, etc. A few of us have allergies and eczema and my skin is very sensitive. We have tall cyclinder shaped fabric baskets with handles for our dirty clothing (one for adults clothes & one for kids clothes). We use a thick plastic bag for clothes that need handwashing or washing machine delicates cycle). Baskets & bag are stored in our Utility Room cupboards.
We then use three plastic baskets for the clean wet laundry and again when laundry is dry and folded. The plastic baskets stack into each other when empty, so do not take up much storage. The third basket is a smaller basket designed to sit my hip, as I carry it around the house putting away smaller piles of clean folded laundry.
We're a family of five, so I have to put at least one load of laundry on per day in order to keep on top of it. Otherwise, it becomes a nightmare. I hate the hanging out to dry and folding parts of doing laundry. I do not iron apart from DS' school trousers or if it's absolutely necessary. School polo shirts do not need ironing, as they are tumble dried. Which unfortunately also shrinks them slightly. But, I'll take that over the tedious ironing.

We've also been wiping down our shopping since Covid-19 (we used to wipe down the tops of tins & cans b4 we used them b4 Covid-19). It's longgg to wipe down everything, but we feel it's necessary. We got fed up with doing it and stopped two months ago. But, then a few of us felt slightly ill that week, so resumed. We use antibacterial wipes for freezer items that need to go straight in the freezer as soon as we get home, such as icecream. We don't clean ice lollies and pizza packaging as we dispose of it immediately to save freezer space. We then fill the Utility Room sink with 1/3 of water and add a bit of bleach and use a cheap J Cloth to clean the rest of the shopping. Frozen and chilled items first. The rest of the shopping gets wiped down throughout the remainder of the day, if I don't have time to wipe down a whole big shop at once.

I think we'll continue to wipe down our shopping going forwards. Our adult DD worked nights at a supermarket for a few months recently. Most people would wipe down their shopping if they were aware of the unsanitary surfaces that their shopping items had been placed on, before the items reached the shop shelves. Plus, shopping trolleys and baskets are not clean. A couple of my pet hates are people who allow their kids to sit in shopping trolleys with their dirty shoes on! Also, people who place the dirty wheels of their own pull along trolleys into the shopping trolley! 🤢 Anything that comes into contact with dirty pavements should not come into contact with food items.
We also take off our outdoor shoes, as soon as we enter our home.

We've also allowed our kids to play in the clean plastic baskets.

We have two.

A large hamper for anything dirty, then a small plastic basket for putting clean washing in. Never occurred to me that that was odd!

*clean plastic laundry baskets.

but cat gets in it often (when it's empty)

Our cat used to get into the basket whatever the state of the stuff in it, on more than one occasion I had to rewash stuff.

Totally with your DH, you use a laundry basket for dirty clothes and then a different basket to get the clean washing from the machine.
Apart from using the same basket for dirty knickers/socks etc and clean clothes (ughhhh) practically we have laundry baskets in our bedrooms and basket for clean clothes from the washing machine is kept in the utility room where the washing machine is.

@vanillandhoney

We have two.

A large hamper for anything dirty, then a small plastic basket for putting clean washing in. Never occurred to me that that was odd!

I would think that is very normal!

Oh and I have another basket for clean and dry clothes when they are ready to be folded up and put away upstairs!

2 separate baskets. X

It wouldn't bother me to use the basket for dirty and clean but we don't. Dirty washing goes straight into the machine once we've changed into pjs or clothes. Whites go into another wash bin until enough has been collected for white wash. Washing baskets carry clean washing upstairs.

Although the washing baskets have also been used as boats for the kids, a table outside (no garden table) etc.

As long as the clothes are clean on I couldn't care what they travelled round in before they got to my draws 😁

I have never had a laundry basket for washing. They always look minging and I hate gaps in things where dust can get caught. Don't buy open weave Wicker etc for same reason.

Each room has own laundry bag but these stay in rooms and when I say what wash I'm doing they put that portion into the machine.

When putting on rads or line, I put half load over my shoulder.

I would hate an empty washing basket, hanging around half the week, being well ....empty.

When clothes are dry I collect and fold and return to the owner.

To clarify, they're just plastic baskets like these that can easily be carried around the house. I'd consider them fairly sanitary. No fabric lining that needs to be washed, no fancy wicker or anything. Just basic plastic laundry baskets.

I can understand more for some reason - I think out of sheer faff that I would keep heavy more decorative laundry baskets for dirty clothes only as I wouldn't bother removing them from the room they're in

We have 2, white one is for clean and grey one is for dirty, Stops things getting muddled.

@WineGetsMeThroughIt

To clarify, they're just plastic baskets like these that can easily be carried around the house. I'd consider them fairly sanitary. No fabric lining that needs to be washed, no fancy wicker or anything. Just basic plastic laundry baskets.

I can understand more for some reason - I think out of sheer faff that I would keep heavy more decorative laundry baskets for dirty clothes only as I wouldn't bother removing them from the room they're in

I've got the blue one in 3 colours! Altogether I've got loads of wash baskets, not gonna give a number or you'll think I'm mad. They're very good for carting decorating or cleaning stuff about.

I tend to agree with your DH!

My DH's clothes can really smell very sweaty! And you can have body fluids on your underwear so I don't consider it super clean. One time would be alright, in a pinch but would really avoid it.

Here in the house we tend to use the food trays to carry the clean clothes (both wet for hanging or dry) ikea ones, plastic and regularly washed.

My basket is just for clean clothes. I give it a rinse after putting in wet clothes and hanging them

Dirty clothes go in big carrier bags, sorted by colour. A bit crappy but does the job.

I have a laundry basket upstairs that all dirty washing gets thrown into. I then sort that into a laundry basket that I take downstairs to be washed. When this is washed I put the washing in same basket and hang it on the line and then put it back in the same basket when it's dry. I don't think at any stage in my
life would it have occurred to me that this is considered unhygienic by some people.

Why would you sort dirty washing from one basket to another?

Laundry hamper where dirty clothes get chucked every day and plastic basket into which clean washing gets pulled out of the machine.

No, I wouldn't use the same basket/hamper for clean and dirty laundry.

Besides you'd end up having a mix of both clean and dirty clothes in one container so don't see how that would work.

Possibly to separate lights/darks/colours/delicates etc?

I have never ever once washed a laundry basket... It has never occurred to me in 41 years in this planet

don't they get fluff in them and tiny hairs? I also clean the garden washing line with wet papertowel. It often comes up black (city pollution).

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

Agreed. I think you have bigger problems than laundry baskets if he yells at you for wiping shopping. That’s a horrible way to behave.

Yukk! Putting clean clothes into a basket which had dirty ones in it before? Not happening in this house!