Partner seems unable to use laundry basket

[SpringHexagon]

I need to know if I am being unreasonable here.

My partner runs his own trade business and generally works 6 days a week in a job that can leave him dirty/ dusty/ sweaty. He will generally wear the same house clothes for a few days, but even with that he wears 2 pairs of boxers and socks in a day. Fair enough, right?
Now, here's where my problem is. He WILL NOT put his dirty clothes in the laundry basket, and instead leaves them at the side of our bed. Is it unreasonable of me to only wash the clothes that are in the basket, instead of crawling around the bedroom floor picking up after him? Letting the Everest of clothes mountains build up until he has no clothes and then has to wash them himself on his only day off a week?

I ask this because I have done this a few times and he does eventually wash his clothes, but he hangs them on the indoor airer and they stay there until I remove them anyway. Also, as stated he does work a lot, but I don't feel I am asking much for him to walk to the other side of the room to put his washing in the basket.

Put a laundry basket where he leaves his clothes. He will moan that a basket is there but if he cannot walk a few steps to the laundry basket leave it next to his bed. Hahaha

Put a washing basket next to his bed where he throws his clothes on the floor haha

Yeah, don't wash it. You're not his mother.

DH has some kind of floordrobe situation going on at the side of his bed but I don't touch it. Nor do I change the bed- he strips the bed and puts the clean fitted sheet and pillowcases back on as I can't get round his side to do it. Just leave it.

Many years ago, a poster swore she dampened the horrible pile of husbandly laundry on their bathroom floor, AND SOWED MUSTARD AND CRESS SEEDS ON IT

it worked, apparently.

I have always been secretly sorry my DH has never presented me with the opportunity

Mine is the same but it's one basket that sits in the kitchen. As every single member of my household uses the kitchen each day, it's guaranteed they will be in there so putting their laundry in the one joint basket is no great ask. And it means I don't need to wander round the house dragging baskets down stairs. (That was the deciding factor when I looked into buying bedroom baskets. I didn't want to lug them about so the family just take their handful of clothes down each time.)

No way would I even consider washing clothes I had to seek out from the floor so OP should ignore every item that's left there. I would also take my sweet time washing it if DH left his things to pile up and then dumped them all in the basket expecting I wash them. An un-emptied airer would have the contents dumped after a day or two into a basket or pile beside it. Unfolded of course. Stay strong OP and don't mother your man.

My late husband did this when we first lived together.

soon stopped when we were visiting his mother and I asked her very loudly “why did you not raise him to use a wash basket, you never said I’d have to teach him to be respectful”

stand up for yourself, he is treating you like shit.

My husband does this. I even moved the laundry basket right next to his side of the bed but he still dumps them on the floor by his bed.
I used to pick them up when I was doing a wash load and would ask him to next time put them in the basket.
Apologies galore but no change.
I told him I'm no longer washing any clothes that are not in the basket.
He commented the other day that he was running out of clean clothes. The pile of dirty washing by the side of the bed was ridiculous.
I told him he knows where the washing machine is.
I'm now also not folding or putting away his clean washing. I washed & dried what was in the basket. Put away all my clean clothes and then put all his clean clothes in a separate basket and told him those were his clean clothes to put away. I know they'll live there forever more but definitely feels freeing to not be his laundry slave anymore!