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

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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?

Nooooooo way -yuck!

I use the same for both I do give it a spray and wipe with the kitchen cleaner every so often though. Like you say we don’t roll around in shit all day either 😂😂

This sounds ridiculous to me. But DH deals with laundry in our house so I don’t really think about it.

Not much different to using separate baskets which I’d rather do than use the bathroom floor.

A basket isn't much use for soaking things, what with being porous.

The bathroom is next to the washing machine, and no one uses it except me, so why not? I wouldn't have used the bathroom in my childhood home, because it was as about as far from the washing machine as you can get.

A basket isn't much use for soaking things, what with being porous.

🙄 As I’m sure you realised, I meant that you keep dirty washing separate from clean washing, just in a different way.

My cat regularly pees in the empty washing basket if I forget to leave it upside down. I rinse it out and carry on with life

I have about 5 baskets, used for whatever. They've often all full of either dirty clothes or clean clothes waiting to be put away, not always easy to tell. At least twice I've started putting away dirty clothes thinking that they're clean.

My solution is to only have a laundry hamper type thing that is permanently in the bathroom. Dirty laundry goes in it all turned inside out ready to be washed. When I'm doing a wash I take out all the dark clothes for example, scoop them all up in my arms and dump in front of washing machine and pile them in. So no messing about with clean or dirty wash baskets.

When washing is finished a few items are carried at a time and put on the washing line or airer. When dry I either iron them straight away or put them in a clean black bin liner until I'm ready.

Isn't being in a clean bin liner better than being in a wash basket that had dirty clothes in?

To add I always wash my hands after handling dirty laundry and avoid touching other things until I can. Why wouldn't people do that?

There has already been a thread on this, and sorry you are wrong OP ( I am wrong too). I don't put filthy clothes in the laundry baskets though.

We have 8 washing baskets in this house - me, DH and DD! One each, and then whites, towels, delicates and jeans. Most of them are bamboo with a fabric bag in, so I take the bag full of clothes and chuck it in the wash as well. Then a clean basket lives downstairs on top of the tumble dryer, and that transports all washing back upstairs. I put it straight away! One basket gets done a day on a rota. I love organisation

I have a laundy bin in the hall where all dirty clothes go.
When I am doing a load of washing I scoop it out into a pile and carry it to the kitchen.

I have a selection of fabric storage boxes. I use one of them to carry the washing to the line or heated airer. If there is one hanging about near the laundry bin it might be used to carry the laundry through because it helps me judge the right amount of washing and not overload poor Washy.
The same fabric boxes are lined up on the floor when I am sorting laundry to be put away and I can be heard muttering " His, his, his, hers, his, ours" etc as I chuck clothes in.

Seriously dirty stuff gets put in straight away if possible or dropped in a bucket of biotex (Especially if that stuff is DH's garage clothes)

Life is waaaaaay too short to stress over this shit. I have far too many other things to stress over. Sometimes I wash darks and lights together, sometimes I chuck tea towels in with other things and SOMETIMES I leave my washing out to get darked on. I even use mismatched pegs.

Laundry hamper that the dirty clothes go into, and then I have three baskets to transfer clothes from hamper to machine to line and back in again. They're used to transfer both clean and dirty washing (and one is now a cat bed with a blanket in because she claimed it one day). Mine are foldable crates so that they can be put away neatly when not in use and they are used to cart all sorts of crap round the house (and flipped upside down for a makeshift coffee table when I'm on the sofa in the bedroom).

Dirty washing I have a laundry bin (if that's what they're called) for and just take it out and carry it downstairs and clean washing I have another basket for, I thought this was normal but I don't see anything wrong with what you're doing.

We have a basket for dirty washing in the bathroom everyone puts their dirty washing in there. When the clothes are washed and dried, they get folded up and sorted into what clothes belong to who and if they need ironing then put in a separate basket .🤷‍♀️