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Laundry baskets - where are they situated in your house?

178 replies

biglips · 18/05/2006 10:21

as ive got one in our bedroom and i could do with another one in the kitchen for everyones or is that naff?

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nutcracker · 18/05/2006 11:07

Have one washing basket in the bathroom, but am moving it into my room i think.

Have ironing baskets in my room and they are overflowing.

Frenchgirl · 18/05/2006 11:07

we have ours on the landing upstairs
wouldn't fit in the bathroom and would hate it in the bedroom or kitchen (the dog would empty it....)

LadyTophamHatt · 18/05/2006 11:09

in our bedroom, but is currently spilling out onto floor.

Really really need a separate tumble dryer rather than awasher/dryer.

Esmummy · 18/05/2006 11:10

Kitchen is so handy though because although you have to bring the washing down with you when you get undressed, there is no lugging around of big heavy full laundry baskets. You can just empty it all on the floor, sort out whites and colours then sling one lot in the machine and the other back in the basket.

LadyTophamHatt · 18/05/2006 11:11

How do you get it all dry though Cod....I could easily do 2 loads a day but would then have piles of wet washing everywhere.

NomDePlume · 18/05/2006 11:12

Hmmm, bozza, you don't have a 14 year old DS do you ?! Your 'kids have legs' post gave it away Wink. I can tell the kids til I'm blue in the face to put their washing in the wash bin, but do they do it ? Do they buggery. Asking/telling them to go the extra staircase to a specific room to deposit their washing would end in lots of pointless arguments, lord knows we have enough of those already

PiccadillyCircus · 18/05/2006 11:15

One in the bathroom.

One in our bedroom (in the hope that DH might manage to put some items in it)

Nappy bin in bathroom

Nappy bin in utility room (for reusable nappies)

Also have two washing baskets that get taken around as and when necessary.

Bozza · 18/05/2006 11:17

Yes it did cross my mind about you having teenagers when I posted. But while mine are still 5 and 2 I see no reason why they shouldn't be trained into taking the washing round into the other bathroom. Grin Also, unfortunately, our main bathroom is so small there really is not space for one in there.

I sort the clothes in the en-suite then and take them down one washload at a time. DD enjoys helping with the washing and is allowed to press the button to start the machine. In fact I recently got DS to load the machine, turn the dial etc and then DD to start it. It all went well until DD gave DS a shove in the back just as he was measuring out the liquid...

Clary · 18/05/2006 11:18

ladies, ladies
I love laundry threads
Colleagues think I am obsessed.
I have one big basket in the bathroom, with all our stuff in, do a wash whenever it reaches 3/4 full, as well as regular washes which never make it in there (bedlinen and towels).
Also another basket in the kitchen for the kids stuff (they usually get undressed downstairs) as I wash that separately for eczema reasons.
Tallied up the washing last week and I did 8 loads. Not bad eh? Mind you have a big machine and do try to spin eg school uniform (outer bits only) for 2-3 days if poss.

oliveoil · 18/05/2006 11:19

dd2 'helps' with the washing too and I always have to check my spin dial now after she turned it to Lift Off and my machine was dancing round the room.

Clary · 18/05/2006 11:26

sorry when I say spin school uniform for 2 days, I mean spin it out for 2 days ie get them to wear it more than once.

Jessajam · 18/05/2006 11:58

One, in the bedroom, has three sections (darks, whites and reds)...it is situated in the corner, just adjacent to the pile of dirty socks, boxershorts T-shirt etcs!!!!!
Also have a laundry 'pile' in corner of nursery!

Our dining room has become the ironing room - table and chairs festooned in creased clothes!

jura · 18/05/2006 13:01

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cod · 18/05/2006 13:06

i take my clothes fo our bedroom to the kids bathroom
hardly a cross terrain trek is it?

dinosaure · 18/05/2006 13:07

We have one wicker basket thing in our bedroom, and a blue plastic thing that is used for transporting washing from bedrooms down to the washing machine.

DH is such a laundry fascist that usually he rips the clothesh off the kids' backs and puts them straight in the machine, so they rarely spend any time in the laundry basket!

cod · 18/05/2006 13:08

id o undress in fornt of ours sometimes

serenity · 18/05/2006 13:09

We've got one in the bathroom, but often have a big pile in the bathroom door if I get behind with thw washing. I often do 2 or 3 washes a day too. We're in a tiny flat so everything goes in the tumble dryer anyway. DSs and DD are well trained that dirty clothes go in the dirty washing, although DD prefers to put it straight in the machine so if its full I often find a pair of Dora pants just sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor Grin

littlerach · 18/05/2006 13:11

Ours is in our room.

When there is a full load then it gets put in another basket to go downstairs to the utility room.

I do about 4 loads a week.
Those of you who do multiple loads a day, do you have boys?

cod · 18/05/2006 13:12

er yes
kit
kit kit

am a biotex mass pirchaser

Auntymandy · 18/05/2006 13:12

ours is in front of washer in laundry

littlerach · 18/05/2006 13:13

Think that girls don't get as mucky, as all my friends with boys seem to spend much of theit lives washiong, whilst those with girls not as much.

BudaBabe · 18/05/2006 13:13

2 lundry baskets on landing outside bathrooms - 1 dark, 1 light. DS (4.5) is very good at working out which goes in which. DH (45) is not.

One of those mesh foldy up ones downstairs to catch bits and pieces.

Just off to do another load!

dinosaure · 18/05/2006 13:14

How do you get away with four loads a week? We do at least one wash every day. It's not just the clothes, it's all the sheets and towels too!

Auntymandy · 18/05/2006 13:14

4 loads a week?!!!!
I do about that a day!!!!

Piffle · 18/05/2006 13:15

two upstairs two downstairs for tooing and froing like you do with it..
Oh and I need an ironing basket, it lok so unseemly just laying there in the corner, every growing
I could always just do it of course, but hwere is the fun in that I ask?