For those of you who sort the clean laundry into one basket per person

[PolarBlair]

Could you please show me a picture/send me a link to the ones you find good?
ATM I sort into 4 piles and leave each pile in the airing cupboard. I put away mine and DC , DH puts away his own .
I'm trying to streamline/declutter/tidy this year so this might help.
Plus 2 out of my 3 laundry baskets (for putting away clothes, not the hampers for dirty ones) have broken so I need to get new ones anyway.
I know it'll depend on size of airing cupboard but ours is reasonably big, probably 1m x 1m
Thank you 😊

I hang on a rail in the utility room and they collect their clothes from that. Socks, pants, and anything folded goes in a basket - 20x30cm or thereabouts. I can’t find a link as they’re quite old now but they’re a very sturdy hard wearing plastic because they get a lot of handling.

Everyone is responsible for collecting their clothes, putting them away, and returning the empty basket and any spare hangers from their wardrobes.

I’m in charge of nagging.

We have three of the Slibb baskets from IKEA. Not one per person but one per bedroom where clothes need to be stored

We use the big shopping bags from home bargains or Tesco. Everyone has their own pattern on it and know when to empty/return it

Kallax boxes. They fold down!

I don’t use baskets, I use a bag for life to transport to line/airer then fold directly off that into a pile per person then put the pile in their room (or by the door in the case of teenagers). I do put away the younger dc’s stuff but if I don’t have time to do it straight away it gets left of top of their chest of drawers until I do (usually at bedtime)

Have four of these - one per family member. Fit on metal shelves just above the bench in utility room. Tumbled dried socks/pants/pjs get sorted into them, as does anything that’s dried hanging up in utility room but doesn’t need ironing. A t shirt, folded Sheldon-style, fits fine.
Family members collect them when they have no pants left, and know to return their empties pronto!
When DS went to uni it was funny to see the sudden realisation that he would no longer have a box and ‘pant fairy’ unless he did it! 😂

Sorry, forgot link: www.robertdyas.co.uk/curver-my-style-large-storage-basket-white

Another one who just uses shopping bags. Easier to carry and store then a load of baskets.

If you really want to streamline/declutter, you only need 1 laundry basket full stop. The 1 basket is to collect the dirty clothes. Everyone puts their dirty clothes in it when they shower/bath. When it is full, take it downstairs and do the laundry. Then carry clean & dry laundry to a bed or sofa and sort into individual piles. Then set each pile on everyone’s bed to put away before they go to bed that evening. It means doing clothes laundry 5x a week when you have a family, but that leaves the other 2 days for bedding. I find not letting laundry build up and doing smaller amounts frequently is much easier in the long run. It also means we don’t need to buy as many clothes so there’s not 14 pairs of socks per person and suchlike.

I have one laundry basket, never crossed my mind that people hlmight have more than one 🙈
Everything gets folded into piles per person and put on their beds

4 boxes on stairs.. one off each of us. That's where I stop. They either empty them or don't

I have 10 of these. 4 for sorting dirty washing, 4 for sorting clean washing per person.

They are stacked in the utility. And the other 2 are usually some where around having not been returned to where they should be!

Maybe this depends on having utility room/drying space, but having sorting boxes for each family member works best for us.
Laundry seems like an ongoing thing, not a batch process (so this idea of putting away a single basket load is a bit alien to me!)
I find it’s easy to use a few minutes while I’m cooking or waiting for the kettle to boil etc to sort out a few pairs of socks or gym stuff off the dryer & make room for more.
Some things will be dry, some will need more time, or a quick tumble.
It also stops DH just dumping stuff out on the bench if he wants to use the tumble dryer. There’s no excuse - he knows where things should be folded and put (although tries to claim he doesn’t know)

Ikea bags make the best laundry containers ever because they fold flat when not in use.

And they don't break.

This to me is a laundry bin. We have a laundry bin in each bedroom (so 3). After a shower/bath people are supposed to deposit their clothing in a laundry bin either their own bedroom or the closest bedroom to the bathroom (bin is kept near the door) this doesn't always happen, but there isn't room for one in the hallway or in the bathroom itself, and anyway the bathroom is much too damp. I try to sweep the bathroom for abandoned clothes every morning and transfer to a laundry bin.

Laundry baskets hold around 1 load (so I would need more than 1 to avoid mixing darks and whites, I find colour catchers don't work that well) and are used to collect dirty washing in the current colour from all 3 bins/the floor/etc to transfer to the washing machine. Then a basket will be used to transfer wet washing from machine to dryer. Then a basket is used to collect all washing out of the dryer, to save me pulling it all out onto the kitchen floor which may not be clean and/or where it might get mixed up with dirty and get washed again. Then I take it into a warmer room to fold in comfort, the kitchen is freezing cold and has a hard floor, whereas the other rooms have rugs. Once folded it goes in piles to people's rooms or if it's mine/youngest two DC who can't put away yet then I might leave it folded in a basket if I don't have time to put it away, again to keep it contained, off the floor, and prevent it getting mixed up with dirty stuff and washed again.

If I'm doing washing back to back, which I typically do, then I will usually have some combination of a dry load that needs to come out to make space for the wet load, and/or a wet load that needs to come out to make space for the dirty load. So I need at least 2 baskets, but I have 3 so that I have a spare in case there is still clothing folded in a basket waiting to be put away. Because of small toddlers and also just my personality I need all tasks to be interruptible without getting completely and totally undone, so this system works for me.

I just leave it all on the spare room bed and when DH realises he's running out of socks he'll sort it 🤣

Fine if you're short of space, but I couldn't be arsed with all the folding and unfolding?
And again, I simply don't get this 'not in use' concept - there is always some laundry being processed in our house and I don't have a 'laundry day' like my mother did!

Plastic box on the bench for each person.

I'm off Thursday mornings so put a wash in of "iron clothes" (not much - dh's work polo's, jeans, ds' school jumpers and a couple of other bits) in on a Wednesday night.

Tumble them on Thursday am and quickly run the iron over them while they're hot. Straight into boxes.

Wash non iron stuff Thursday am, tumble and straight into boxes.

Stick towels or bedding in on Thursday pm for while I'm at work and dh sorts it when he gets in

No washing usually until the next Wednesday bar the off white wash