Are we the only people without a laundry basket?

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We always had a laundry basket because, well, we'd always had one, we both grew up in a house that had one, etc.

Then we moved to a smallish flat and got rid of our old laundry basket saying "We'll buy a smaller one when we've moved in". Four years later we still don't have one. We just put our clothes in the washing machine when we take them off, and when the machine is full we run it.

It feels like we should have a basket because "That's what you do", and we're not very unconventional people. But maybe this is what passes for rebellion against the system at our age. Or maybe I will find out that this is something that millennials have dropped entirely, like landlines.

Seems like a good system 😊

But where else can your dry clean and handwash only items loiter for months at a time?

Surely that means your whites end up grey? And different materials are being washed at suboptimal temps?

I have three sections laundry, darks/whites/mixed. Then sort by material.

Do you not separate your whites and coloureds?

Don’t you separate whites, delicates etc? What happens if you get changed whilst the towels are on? I don’t get it.

Where do you put your whites/coloureds etc when you are washing your darks?

Colour catchers mean you can mix.

OP I’m so jealous of this system, sounds so organised

Yeah also wondering about whites and coloured s!

😂 I had a dress in mine for a year

I don’t generally sort by colours but there’s four of us in the house and no way I’m washing every day or even every other day. I do it all once a week so I need somewhere to store it til that day comes round.

I don’t have a laundry basket either as there is nowhere to put one in my small flat. Luckily I mainly wear dark clothes so nothing to separate. Towels get washed separately on a hot wash as does bedding. I generally only do about 3 loads a week maximum.

Love this system - I may start it myself! I certainly don’t have any hand wash only or dry clean clothes so that’s not a problem.

No. We just wash everything at 30C with pods from Aldi.

Does the colour not run ?

No. We just wash everything at 30C with pods from Aldi.

Interested to know how do you time it right so that the machine is empty for bedding and towels to be washed while no one gets undressed.

DH prefers your system, he likes to put his clothes straight into the machine when he takes them off.

Drove me crackers having to empty the machine in order to wash other things.

We now have his and her washing machines. Not a cheap solution but completely worth it.

Very rarely, maybe with a new item. And neither of us is a big clothes buyer. We can always sort the clothes out and leave half of them on the floor by the machine for an hour while it runs, and we might wash a pair of new jeans with a couple of dark towels the first time. But honestly at 30C with modern dyes I don't think very much runs at all. (Or perhaps everyone makes remarks about us behind our backs about how we dress in grey.)

I still use a laundry bin for my things, most weeks run a general wash, a wash for non colour fast colours (self dyed) all similar colours so good together, s bedding wash and a towels (all white but large so separate )

Bliss while DH pfaffs around

leave half of them on the floor by the machine for an hour while it runs

Yes, DH unloads any clothes he doesn't want to wash, leaves them on the floor while washing the other load.

He is in effect using the washing machine as I use a laundry bin.

Sigh.

Starting to look around nervously now... We wash bedding and towels in with clothes. The only problem is sometimes a sock disappears at the far end of a duvet cover.

(Please don't tell me that this is some huge hygiene no-no. To me it's all just water and soap and a bit of second-hand sweat being removed from the fabric.)

We do exactly same here! Clothes just go in washing machine daily and gets put on every day or two. Bedsheets and towels get done once a week or so, straight in washer. Barely have any light coloured clothes so just wash everything together. I couldn't go back to having a washing basket now I'd find it more of a faff

I don't think this would work for us. When we strip the beds we have three loads and two loads twice a week for the towels, so when you bring it all down you'd just have to put it on the floor! Also what do you do if your teen comes in from the gym and the machine's running? Sweaty gear on the kitchen floor!

We don’t have a laundry basket either. My husband keeps his work stuff in the garage and does a wash once I week. I just put clothes into the machine as I use them and run the cycle when it’s full. I hand wash as and when something needs doing.

I don't have a laundry bin anymore. I'd left it in the shed where my washing machine is and the strong winds we had last year blew my shed door open and the laundry bin decided to go on a jolly never to be seen again. I should really get round to replacing it cos lugging washing outside in my arms is a right pita

To be fair I don't have many of them.
If something needs dry cleaning, I'd take it fairly soon. Otherwise it could go back in the wardrobe, possibly inside it's plastic cover.
I avoid buying hand wash wherever possible. But would do the same as above.

To be honest these days I've been throwing dresses that claim to be dry clean only into a washing machine and hoping for the best. So far, over the last few years, no issues.

That wouldn't be my question for the op though.
What about light and dark separating?