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to keep dirty laundry in the bathroom

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CanStopWillStop · 26/01/2023 23:13

DH wants the basket in the bathroom, as that's where he takes his clothes off primarily. However the bathroom is tiny and I keep tripping over it. He thinks laundry doesn't belong in the bedroom and is better in the bathroom.

Is HE being unreasonable? Please vote so I can show him the poll results lol.

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Whataretheodds · 26/01/2023 23:14

Bathroom v bedroom is moot. Makes sense to 'keep' it where you're not falling over it!

SnarkyBag · 26/01/2023 23:14

I don’t like the basket in the bathroom as I feel the clothes hold onto damp from showers and steam.

TheSmallAssassin · 26/01/2023 23:16

Put it on the landing, if you have one and have room? He can put his clothes in there on the way back to the bedroom.

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CanStopWillStop · 26/01/2023 23:17

Whataretheodds · 26/01/2023 23:14

Bathroom v bedroom is moot. Makes sense to 'keep' it where you're not falling over it!

Meant more figuratively rather than being launched onto the floor. Its just that the laundry basket takes up a lot of floorspace, and I have to keep maneuvering it in an already compact room.

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Sushi4Dins · 26/01/2023 23:18

Who does the laundry?

Hobbesmanc · 26/01/2023 23:18

Ooh mines in the bathroom. I don't think I'd like to be breathing in dirty laundry odour. It's not like anything is really rank. But so,times DH socks or running shorts are a little whiffy

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CanStopWillStop · 26/01/2023 23:18

Sushi4Dins · 26/01/2023 23:18

Who does the laundry?

We take turns, he's a good egg haha!

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antwacky · 26/01/2023 23:21

I used to have a laundry bag that hung on the bathroom door when we had a tiny bathroom. It held a decent amount too.

SilverHydrangea · 26/01/2023 23:23

Our laundry basket is in the bathroom but we have space for it.

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CanStopWillStop · 26/01/2023 23:23

Hobbesmanc · 26/01/2023 23:18

Ooh mines in the bathroom. I don't think I'd like to be breathing in dirty laundry odour. It's not like anything is really rank. But so,times DH socks or running shorts are a little whiffy

This is his logic, he doesn't want smelly clothes in the bedroom.... but there's only so many places it can go. Also when we have guests I always put it back in the bedroom so they don't have to wrestle it on entry as we don't have a downstairs loo.

fwiw I don't think the basket smells either... lol

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CanStopWillStop · 26/01/2023 23:24

antwacky · 26/01/2023 23:21

I used to have a laundry bag that hung on the bathroom door when we had a tiny bathroom. It held a decent amount too.

DH's valentines gift incoming hahaaa

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ComfortablyDazed · 26/01/2023 23:25

No, too much steam in the bathroom to ever keep mine in there. YANBU.

Solmum1964 · 26/01/2023 23:28

We also keep ours on the landing - easily accessible by everyone.

WeightoftheWorld · 26/01/2023 23:29

Do you only have one? We have loads of different ones...6 in total in fact. But I was thinking about this the other day actually and I think we could cut this down to 5 or even 4. But then they'd probably be even mofe overflowing than some of them regularly are already... 3 are in our bedroom, 1 in DC1's bedroom, 2 in the spare bedroom. Our bathroom is a tiny box so there's physically no space for even one in there. My DP's have theirs in their utility room on top of the washing machine which is great. If only we had a utility room!

nex18 · 26/01/2023 23:32

Mine’s in the bathroom although it fits perfectly in a little gap behind the door, there’s no tripping over it. Your dh is right, it’s where clothes are often removed, he’s NBU. Ds has a basket in his bedroom too so we have around a 99% success rate of a teenage boy getting his dirty laundry into a laundry basket.

Iloveabaconbutty · 26/01/2023 23:38

Ours is in the bathroom. I'd never given it any consideration that it should be anywhere else until now. But we do have four now fully grown kids, two at home all of the time and two when they are home from uni so for reasons of practicality the bathroom as the commonly shared space is the best option.

Suffice to say it's invariably overflowing with dirty washing!

EBearhug · 26/01/2023 23:39

Mine is in the bathroom because I have the space there and it's much closer to the washing machine than the bedroom is.

But I might make a totally different decision in another house with a different layout.

Summerfun54321 · 26/01/2023 23:42

Another vote for the landing laundry basket. I just put the basket where the most clothes gathered naturally. Baskets you have to make an effort to get to aren't as successful IMO.

Summerfun54321 · 26/01/2023 23:43

Also, can't you have two smaller baskets or bags each placed here you like? Rather than a big laundry basket to trip over.

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CanStopWillStop · 26/01/2023 23:45

Summerfun54321 · 26/01/2023 23:43

Also, can't you have two smaller baskets or bags each placed here you like? Rather than a big laundry basket to trip over.

He has a strong objection to laundry basket in the bedroom, and I'm really not sure why. I put it in the bedroom, he puts it back in the bathroom, and so on and so forth til death do us part, it seems.

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UsingChangeofName · 26/01/2023 23:56

Bathroom seems a logical place in our house, but we have plenty of floor space.

We have also had it living on the landing for several years, as that is somewhere everyone can access if you have several people using it.

Seems strange to me to put it in the bedroom, probably because I never have, but logically I can't see any reason why not, if the only people using it are in the same bedroom.

EconomyClassRockstar · 26/01/2023 23:57

Get a laundry chute if your washer and dryer are downstairs. Best invention ever!

Nanny0gg · 27/01/2023 00:00

CanStopWillStop · 26/01/2023 23:45

He has a strong objection to laundry basket in the bedroom, and I'm really not sure why. I put it in the bedroom, he puts it back in the bathroom, and so on and so forth til death do us part, it seems.

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So is there space on your landing?

ymemanresu · 27/01/2023 00:15

Sorry, I don't mean to be rude but omg is this your biggest problem?

RoseMartha · 27/01/2023 00:23

Where there is room for it. We have a laundry bin in the bathroom and in the teens room the latter as it reduces the dirty laundry on the floor.

In our old home the laundry bin was in master bedroom. A friend of mine has her laundry bin in the utility room.

I dont think it matters, it is preference and space based.