Clothes everywhere! How do you organise everyone's washing?

[Jemster]

Here's the situation.

DS 6 has small washing bin in his room. Bought for him to use only. He doesn't put anything in it, just drops clothes in floor no matter how many times I've asked him. How do I get him to do it?!

DH's wardrobe is in DS's room so he ends up shoving his stuff in DS's washing bin, result overflowing mess.

DD 2 has a basket in her room which works fine but gets full up quickly.

Another basket in our room rammed with towels, sheets, my stuff.

There are piles of washing everywhere waiting to be done. DH and I just randomly shove them in in between being at work. Always tons of stuff drying and stacked up to be put away.

Please tell me how you organise yours as this is such a mess and can never find anything.
I know it's not rocket science but organising doesn't come naturally to me and I have a chronic condition which can mean I'm in pain and exhausted so find it hard to keep on top of things.

It's just 3yo DD and I here.
Clothes go straight into the laundry room. There's a basket on the floor. DD has this perfect and tells me off when I leave things around.

ExP got the hang of it eventually, after he had absolutely no clothes left.

I'll be doing the same with DD when she starts dropping things. If it's not in the basket, it doesn't get washed, unless you do it yourself.

I have 2 central linen bins - one for lights and one for darks. Wash when full. non-iron items returned to owners bed once dry. Rest to ironing basket then ironing returned to owners bed.
Dd(14) needs nagging about stuff on floor and cannot go out unless floor is tidy. All worked better when dd was 13 and under

laundry is probably one of my top most causes of household stress here!

we have 8 in the house (me, DH and 6dc) I need to do 2 loads a day at least to keep on top of it, and then often 4/5 a day at weekends.

I have tried umpteen different systems...current set up is like this:

Ds1(16) has own laundry bin in his room. tends to favour floow though. BUT recently I have handed over responsibility for his washing to him so he now does his own mostly. I will help out occassionally, but actually he is quite good at getting it done.
DD1(14) and 2 (12)have one laundry basket each on the landing and then shared one for school uniform. I am encouraging them to help more with this by utting a load on when they can etc.. when doen clean stuff is brought back to their room and they put away(leave lying around)
DD3 and 4 and ds2 share a basket (share a room too currently) and generally this gets on about 1 load a day.
then dh and I share laundry basket in our room
Plus laundry basket on landing for towels/sheets which get done usually at weekends.

for me the key seems to be trying to keep loads to one bedroom so all dd1 and 2 stuff in one load, dd3,4 and ds2 in one load and mine and dh in one load.makes sorting easier and when dry can be swiftly returned to correct room.

still a nightmare though. still clothes everywhere...sigh

I have recently moved to having only one washing basket for everyone, on the landing. This means I stay on top of the washing better as I can see it building up and force myself to wash daily (well normally at least two loads a day but Dd2 is in cloth nappies and soon to increase when Dc3 is born!

I am fortunate enough to have a utility room, dryer and a large back porch big enough to put two airers up when the weather is inclement so gone are the days of damp washing over all the radiators, but I agree it's the putting away that evades me. I have baskets for everyone individually lined up on the utility room surface and as I sort the dry washing it goes into each persons basket, and in theory they then take it and put it away themselves. DD1 (11) empties basket onto her bedroom floordoes do this when nagged and I do mine and Dd2s. DP leaves his in the utility room, rifling through it for things when he runs out if clothes, until I crack and take it upstairs for him.

Oh and- I don't wash clothes unless they are in basket. But that might not work with a 6 year old.