Step too far? No washing basket

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Just that really. I hate our clean washing basket - it has all the crap I can't bear to iron, odd socks etc. Most of the actual clean washing gets folded or ironed straight from the line.

I want to just get rid of it. Just completely get rid, and it will force me to get rid of all the shite and deal with laundry immediately.

My husband feels this is a MK-ing in the extreme and looks rather frightened, lest I take him to the tip too.

Is it too much or thoroughly sensible?

I wouldn't get rid of mine but that's because the dirty washing is upstairs and the washing machine is in the utility and the iron is kept in the living room (long story but it involved a curious cat and a hot iron).

My job would be almost impossible if I couldn't carry all the washing around the house n the basket. Plus what will you put your children in when playing boats and dragging them around the house? this may just be something I do with children and dogs and no one else on the planet

I tend to bring the washing in from the garden and fold/iron it in the kitchen. It is then collected by my children and put away themselves.

I think I will put the basket in the cupboard under the stairs where everything goes to die and give it a month. If it's working, I will get rid completely.

Same here. We fold most things (ninja fold and vertical stacking is great for tshirts) and iron the ABSOLUTE minimum which is on hangers on a wheely stand in the boiler room out of sight once it's dry.
Odd socks go into the person's drawer until their twin arrives and I buy six identical pairs at a time. Helps in matching up.

No washing basket of doom to root around in here!

A washing basket takes up too much space IMO. I much prefer one of the supermarkets' bags for life (the sturdy ones that will stand up on their own)

I can keep it folded up in a drawer. I can change it if / when it gets dirty or torn.

Do you have a separate ironing basket? (which is needed) if so Yabu to get rid of a basket for clean laundry! Just sort it and put away :)

I like our washing basket, but it gets as much use for tidying as for washing. When I'm tidying I use it to hold all the random crap that's in the wrong room. One blast through the house to gather it all, a second to distribute it all.

If you've reached a higher state of being where the random crap doesn't need redistributing, all power to you!

When my washing basket broke I just started using one of the blue Ikea bags for washing, a lot easier to store and hold a massive amount of clothes.

Where will the dirty washing go if you get rid of it?

I could never get rid of my washing baskets! I have 4 for dirty washing and 4 for clean washing. I would be lost without them! Where would people put their dirty clothes, how could I carry all the clean clothes upstairs? No I need mine forever!

I have a drawer that I keep my iron, odd socks or shirt that I hate ironing. Could that work? Have you a spare drawer?

I've got one dirty laundry basket....and three washing baskets. I use the baskets to sort the dirty stuff into the correct piles, carry down to the machine, carry out to the line or wait by the dryer. I also use them to load my Sainsbury's delivery into at the front door.
Essential and useful items of kit!!!

Oooh... i just chuck all the dirty clothes down the stairs (kids love helping) then walk down and scoop the whole lot up and take it to the washing machine.

My ironing basket is ridiculous, but none of it is mine.

I care for my mother, and it's all her trousers so if she wants them, she has to iron them herself (this is the only household task she does!). She has taken to buying new ones though, to my dismay so it keeps growing.... I have managed to "train" her out of needing to iron leggings though...

A basket for clean laundry? Surely you just fold it off the rack, pile it up and carry it upstairs.

We have laundry baskets in the bedrooms, wicker with lids, and we just take the laundry out and then walk it down stairs and wash it. I've no other laundry basket. Never have done, never seen the need,,,,

What's the difference between a dirty laundry basket and a washing basket, OnlyTheDepth?!

A dirty laundry basket is as it says. A washing basket is what you put your laundered items in to before hanging them up. This often involves taking them outside.

Once dry, put in washing basket.

Can't believe I've had to explain that.

If you don't have a basket, what do you do with the wet washing while you are hanging it out?

Can't you, Salt? . I call clothes to be washed "the washing", so would assume this was what a washing basket contained.
Not "the washed".

An ironing basket now, I could understand (although I rarely actually iron).

It's a fair enough question! I think different posters on this thread have variously used "washing basket" to mean thing for storing dirty clothes til wash day, thing for transporting dirty clothes to machine, thing for transporting clean wet clothes to line, thing for holding clean dry clothes while transporting round the house, and thing for holding stuff waiting to be ironed, with or without odd socks/random bits that get left over.

salt and cola are spot on. You need a washing basket or three to move from dirty basket to machine to line to ironing board.

I don't need a big washing basket these days, finding a general-purpose plastic bowl far more useful and easier to store. Yes, ditch yours OP (and the old socks too).

Stuff waiting to be ironed Supermarket bag-for-life works here, being folded up when empty (no further odd socks if not reclaimed when dry).