How many laundry baskets do you have?

[Babyfg]

I currently live in a two bedroom flat with partner and two children. We currently have one laundry basket (with three sections) in my bedroom for all of our washing (darks/lights/towels and cloths). We'll be moving soon to a four bedroom house and was just wondering what people's laundry systems were!
My children are toddlers, so too young to do their own laundry (which will be something I will be encouraging at an age appropriate time!)
I was thinking maybe have a main one in the main bathroom!

So basically I'm just being nosy and looking for any good tips or ideas!

Just one large dirty washing basket on the landing. Then 3 transit baskets for taking a load to/from washer. Once dirty basket starts to look full I'll sort the washing into loads and wash.

We have darks, lights, whites, and towels/bath mats in our room. There's also a wet box in the utility room for whites that need soaking like dishcloths and bibs in Vanish, and there's a basket for "special" items (handwash, wool wash, Gortex etc) which I go through every fortnight or so and do the special loads. And DD has one in her room which I sorted every few days into the main ones. So 7 in total.

I have a 12kg washer and a 10kg dryer so can do a full basket at once.

We have a r bed house but smallish rooms and tiny landing. We have a set of one big and one small basket. The big one's in our room, the small one's on the landing for DC. The small one fills up before the end of the week (we wash weekly) so once a week I shift an armful of it into the big one.

Once a week we sort it into piles and wash from there.

In my head these are linen baskets. The laundry basket is the plastic one for transporting a wash.

Family of 4 in a 5 bed house, and one laundry basket, in our bedroom. I also have 2 "transit baskets" (loving that term!) for separating/sorting/transporting to washing line on wash day.

I have a set routine with washing, and do the washing every other day, and it never overflows. I can't really see why I'd need another basket.

I have one I and a floor. It's the system that seems to work best. No matter how many I scatter around the floor seems to be the preferred choice for my S !

DH and I have a big bedroom so have three laundry bins, one for darks, one for lights and one for “special” (woolens, silk, “handwash” - so mainly my things). DD does her own laundry when at home. DS has his own bin and I just tell him to bring me his “darks” or his “lights” or his linen. Our bathrooms aren’t big enough to have laundry bins.

During the week, I iron every morning for at least an hour, got a press so zip through quite a bit in an hour. I don't find it a chore.

Ironing for an hour every day!? Wow.

I like to do mine all in one hit with something good on the telly. I did two hours this afternoon and that is my basket empty. I emptied all our laundry bins over the weekend so the only unwashed and ironed clothes here are those worn Sunday and today.

We have just one on the landing for 2 adults and 2 children. I do a wash every day and put a load away every day so it never gets full really.

Inside the laundry basket I have 4 netted bags that I use to separate into whites/darks/lights/brights but they all just sit in there until I grab the net to transport the washing into the machine.

Downstairs next to the washing machine I have another small bag that I put tea towels and e cloths in to be washed once a week.

Works well for us but if I miss a couple of days it quickly starts to overflow!

I have a big one on the landing for towels and bedding, one in the main bathroom where the kids shower and bathe, one in my bedroom and one to transport it all downstairs when I sort into loads every few days. Once it’s clean and dry I use that same transit basket to take everything back upstairs, put it all away and then add another load from the other baskets. I like having a separate one for towels and bedding because I tend to wash those on their own on a hot wash anyway and it frees up space in the “clothes” baskets.

We have 2 hampers in dh/my bedroom for dark and lights. 1 pop up one in each of the DC's bedrooms. I make up loads from each hamper into a washing basket to take to the washing machine

AT LAST! I get to share a picture of my laundry room set up! We have laundry baskets in each bedroom (3) and I have one with two sections in my bathroom, then we have this amazing section of various baskets in the laundry room. Top left pink is the ironing and ‘socks waiting to be paired basket’ (purely the cleaners domain), middle left is the whites, bottom left is coloureds. The two on the right are for emptying the tumble dryer ready for folding or moving to the ironing basket and the other is for moving washing between washing machine and tumble drier.

2, one in each bathroom. 6 of us here.

Two laundry baskets for dirty clothes, now ds has started school we need to get another for uniform. Two baskets to fold into.

None. We have two large cloth drawstring bags from IKEA that hang on the backs of the bathroom doors, and a regular IKEA bag for the clean washing.

I feel strangely inadequate. 5 bedroom house, 3 bathrooms, 5 people and 1 lonely laundry bag which most the family don't even put the washing in - they just chuck it in the general direction!! 1 washing basket for taking wet washing from machine to line. Or for taking dry laundry upstairs.

After many years and loads of different receptacles, I have finally sorted it. 3 adults ( sometimes 4 if DS2 at home) Two large plastic baskets with handles - look like large oval shopping baskets but sold as laundry baskets. One smaller one - which was sold as a garden trug . All on the landing outside a spare bedroom door.
One large one for darks and one for lights. Small one for socks/tights/bras.
No need for a separate transport basket as just take the one I need.
Have to admit the towels end up in the bath, as we usually shower and only use the bath once in a blue moon.

Three - One in the kitchen, strip the DC straight from the high chair so crumbs don’t trail up the stairs on the way to the bath.
One on landing to collect up all the towels, clothes taken off upstairs, pyjamas, bedding, sickly babygrows.
One to fold clean laundry in to for transportation upstairs, emptied on to my bed for sorting and taking to appropriate room / airing cupboard... that tub reused as the landing tub...
I must add that it’s not just washing hurled in to these tubs, anything needing transportation up or downstairs is balanced on top - cups, shoes, toys which have ended up on the wrong floor...
It’s relentless.

Two - one for me and DH and a smaller one for DS. I wash his clothes separately as he has to have a different detergent.

Thanks guys. I'm actually finding this unbelievably interesting! And I have a bit of a trail and error plan test out when we do move!

I usually just carry the laundry basket to the washing machine as it's literally across the hall right now but transition baskets (you should tm that!) are definitely going on the shopping list!

I use baskets like this for transporting clothes to and from the machine. I have about 4 of them as I also sort dry clothes into separate baskets for me/dh and the kids.

Used to have one in each bedroom, then when we renovated DH built a laundry chute from the bathroom down to the utility room. So now we just have one giant basket in a cupboard in the utility, the entrance to the chute is a flap on the bathroom wall, so laundry gets collected each morning and chucked in there and falls into the huge basket downstairs and we sort it into loads from there. When DH first suggested it I did think he'd gone a bit mental but actually I bloody love it now!

None.
I did have a basket many years ago until it was just me and DD and we had no stuff so I got by without and years later as a family of 5 haven't needed one since.
No colours/delicates to seperate. Wash, dry and put a load away every day.

Also live in 2 bed flat with partner and baby. 2 laundry baskets as I like to keep my DS's washing separate.

Four. One in each bedroom.

A bit obsessed by laundry so liking this thread!

Laundry and bedlinen. My twin passions.

One laundry bag not basket hangs on the back of the door in each of the five bedrooms, kids put their dirty clothes in them, then three times a week I gather them up and sort into darks, pales, hot wash shirts etc. (vomity baby makes much laundry) I canter round gathering towels once a week, and everyone (even smallish kids) strips and remakes their bed once a week. And a nappy wash every two days. Dishcloths and floorcloths changed daily and lurk in utility room waiting for a hot wash. I'm tired just writing that down. Teach your kids to fold and put away their own laundry asap - mine get presented with a basket of dry clothes and are told - tea when that's folded neatly in your cupboards.