How many laundry baskets do you have?

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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!

I have two laundry baskets for clean clothes. During the summer I cut back to one because I was forever letting it fill to the brim with clean clothes before putting them away and that's just lazy.
But with the kiddies back at school and washing uniforms again I now use the two laundry baskets. It does make life a bit easier.

Both bathrooms have a bin + main bedroom. Family of three adults but this has been the set up for 20 odd years

I also have one laundry basket for the dirty clothes for the dc. I have a dirty clothes laundry basket for myself and so does dp for his clothes.

Wow, I am amazed that people have more than one laundry basket and whole systems to sort it all!!
Family of and We have one basket where all washing goes. And one ikea bag to move it around (from machine to line, line to airing cupboard. Cupboard to bedrooms).

I'm squirming at the idea of clean clothes going back into a dirty basket 😖

Only ever had 1 in the bathroom. When my DDs were teens obviously we also had their bedroom floors so technically had 3 🤣🤣🤣

It's a plastic basket that holds the dirty washing for the length of time it takes to carry it downstairs and dump it in the washing machine so maybe a minute or two. The wet clean laundry sits in it for as long as it takes to hang it on the line / maiden /bung in dryer.

Nothing is in there long enough to get dirty.

It's really nothing to squirm over.

Anything really grim doesn't go into a washing basket at all but straight into the machine.

I'm very impressed people have more than one.
5 of us 1 laundry basket.
1 plastic basket to transport to line or upstairs.
1 dryer for storing clothes that need to be ironed.
I just sort out on the landing if I have a load chuck it all down the stairs and then in the washer.
I wouldn't trust anyone else to sort. At least this way if something runs it's my fault.

One big hamper in the main bedroom where everyone chucks everything. This is sorted when a load goes on, and carried to/from machine in the washing basket. I have 3 flexitubs for sorting washed and dried clothes to go into the 3 bedrooms. Oh, and there is a laundry bag which holds the clean stuff waiting to be ironed (actually there's 2 as we both hate ironing so tend to let it pile up). That's a lot of washing baskets on reflection! They've sort of multiplied over the years

1 in the en suite shower room for everything
1 in the main bathroom for everything but whites
1 in the main bathroom for whites (adults and children, DH and 2 school age dc her through at least 12 white shirts a week, never mind anything else). The adults take their whites to the main bathroom whites basket. Not enough room in en-suite for sorted laundry.

You might put grotty stuff straight in the machine but I bet some people don't 🙄

3 bamboo bins in the bathroom to collect clothes to be washed. Inside are canvas bags to transport to the washing machine. 1 (small one) for delicates, 1 for towels bedding and whites (though white delicates still end up in here and DH can't manage to put his towel in there ) and a larger one for the general wash. Then each person has a labelled wicker basket where I put their dried folder clothes for them to put a way.

4 upstairs, 3 downstairs.

Upstairs ones are for dirty clothes and live in my bedroom and are for whites, lights, darks and reds/delicates. We have a ‘triple laundry sorter’ which is three bags on a frame, each bag lifts off. I only wash a bag when it is full. Bedding and towels get taken straight from the bed or bathroom downstairs to wash, they don’t go into the sorters.

Downstairs ones are for clean clothes and are for mine and DH’s stuff to be ironed, DC stuff to be ironed and the third one is for already ironed/doesn’t need to be ironed and needs to be taken upstairs.

Ooo! I forgot I have another one for things that require a "special" wash - e.g a wool wash (I shrunk a few jumpers by not seeing them in the mass of everything else) there's also a bag at the bottom of this basked which stores anything that's waiting to go to the dry cleaners. I bloody hate laundry!

4 bed house and we have a basket in our bedroom, one in my sons and one in my DDs. I have one plastic basket for hanging stuff outside , so transport from the washing machine to line or tumble dryer

Everyone just puts their washing in their own basket. I do one towel wash a week and don't need a basket for these as I just collect the towels from each bathroom and wash. Same for bedding , I strip each bed each week and straight down to wash.

For my day to day washing, I just collect darks or whites from each basket.

Some of the systems on this thread are complicated. I wouldn't want loads of baskets around the place either

There’s me, OH and three DC’s. We have one in our room, one in the boys room and one in DD’s room.

Two. One twin for white and everything else sorting and one for things that cannot go in the tumble drier. Our cleaner does a load for us and shoves everything in the drier...so my work dresses etc are hidden until DH or I are doing a load.

M0reGinPlease you're so lucky. I wish I had a laundry shute.

Chute not shute. Oops.

Loving this thread! And I want a laundry chute....

Nothing exciting to add. One laundry hamper in our room and one in each DC. I wash daily on the whole and do coloureds or whites depending on which needs doing. Towels/bedding around once a week and Chuck tea towels etc in with those. Only 1 transit basket - feeling a bit inadequate 😂😂

@Oceanbliss I'll be honest I was quite 'meh' about it and thought DH was being weird for wanting to do it (he'd found an old chimney that ran internally from our bathroom to the utility so the infrastructure was there. DD wanted to make it into a slide...) but I'm not going to lie, it's transformed my laundry routine. If I can just get DD to stop throwing toys down it and trying to race them downstairs...

3 bedroom house, 5 of us. I only have 1 laundry basket for clothes at the moment, I prefer to have it all in one place and then lug it to the utility room to sort through. I also have a little basket in the utility room for towels and cleaning cloths.

We have two for three of us. One in our bedroom for me and DH and then one in the nursery for DD. She's obviously too young to do anything for herself but it's easier to chuck her clothes in there where we change her. We also wash her clothes on different settings etc. to our own.

Your 3 year old can be trained to put his clothes in the laundry basket.

We have one per bedroom. However I was thinking of one in the bathroom and none in the bedrooms but it would get full quickly and I'd would have to have a few in the bathroom taking up space or wash more often.

I think it depends on whether you wash weekly or every couple of days.

😂 😂 At the poster getting outraged that a plastic laundry basket is used for dirty and then clean washing. Gosh what a privelidged life you must lead.

One laundry bin in the bathroom and one plastic basket for transporting washing to the line and back upstairs.