Laundry baskets - where are they situated in your house?

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

MSN

Ours is in the futility room.

boiler room?

do you live in a submarine/hospital/school enid?

DH & I have separate ones in our dressing room (sounds posh, but in reality is small lobby next to ensuite). Kids leave clothes on landing at end of each day and they get taken downstairs to the 'master laundry system' in the utility room -a 3 section hanging bin thing for Whites/ Coloureds/ 'Special' i.e. handwash, or something I wouldn't trust DH with

Am now training DS1 (6) to put any 'radioactive undies' directly into the downstairs bin...

i do 2 washes a day

sometimes more

am thinkning of getting a new one, which doubles up as a seat. anyoen have one? (v odd that this has provoked such huge response, but strangely riveting)

1 in bathroom, thats it. Although DH thinks our bedroom floor is one big basket the lazy fecker

lol tutter

tis a utility room but the new boiler is vast and takes up half

1 in our room hidden in the wardrobe. Older 2 boys (2 & 4) put clothes in at night. I sort clothes into piles on bedroom floor and carry them down.

I'm sure this thread can make it to over 100 posts, there must be loads more that can be said about where to put laundty baskets

Ours is under a huge pile of grubby clothes, somewhere.
It's a large IKEA plastic rubbish bin - quite stylish. Then I have an opaque-blue-plastic 'basket' to transport sorted dirties to the machine, and then back to indoor clothes horse, or (from any day now) to the washing line in the garden.

I have a 50's retro peg bag, and some disgraceful old plastic pegs, supplemented by some from lakeland with promise not to leave peg marks on clothes.

PMSL at 'futility room'

blu they had a basket of those pegs in M&S baby blue/pink & was tempted. we have new washing line (and prop!) - has transformed my life

Here's a new twist... question to those who do 2 washes a day or more.... does a normal domestic washing machine cope with this, or do they break down regularly? I have a fear (probably irrational, but then I'm neurotic) of using the very fast 1400 spin coz I think the machine will wear out faster.

Out the way under the stairs! My peg bag is an old carrier bag that is dropping to bits!

One large wicker affair in the upstairs hall. Dirty laundry then taken downstairs and transferred to a plastic job in the cellar/utility room so can be sorted.

Bedroom, bathroom, kitchen. Though the kitchen one's more of a 'I'll put that in there 'cos it's a woollen wash' basket, rather than the one that gets emptied most often.

They're very good Bundle. mine are a horrid peach and light green colour (my Mum sent for them) I might look in M&S.

What colour is your washing line? Mine is green plastic with a steel cable inner core. I have attached it to loops on the fence with fancy climbing Karibiners so that I can easily take it down / put it up. Haven't got a prop, though.

Oh yes - props. I was roped into trailing over to help my Mum sort out my Grandparent's house (they both died some years back but my Mum is terminally disorganised). I am now the proud possessor of two proper traditional wooden props. None of this whirlygig nonsense for me!

I think all mums are obsessed with laundry/washing, that's why there are so many post here.

I have one, a seat thingy with a lid in the bathroom, and I carry stuff up and down in fold down palstic crates, of which I have loads for all sorts.

Themoon66 I think that the bearings do go after a while on most bog standard washing machines, and make a really noisy, horrible sound. I got fed up of replacing our machine every couple of years, so have just bought a miele, and am in love!!

I think all mums are obsessed with laundry/washing, that's why there are so many post here.

I have one, a seat thingy with a lid in the bathroom, and I carry stuff up and down in fold down palstic crates, of which I have loads for all sorts.

Themoon66 I think that the bearings do go after a while on most bog standard washing machines, and make a really noisy, horrible sound. I got fed up of replacing our machine every couple of years, so have just bought a miele, and am in love!!

Oh yes - props. I was roped into trailing over to help my Mum sort out my Grandparent's house (they both died some years back but my Mum is terminally disorganised). I am now the proud possessor of two proper traditional wooden props. None of this whirlygig nonsense for me!

I think all mums are obsessed with laundry/washing, that's why there are so many post here.

I have one, a seat thingy with a lid in the bathroom, and I carry stuff up and down in fold down palstic crates, of which I have loads for all sorts.

Themoon66 I think that the bearings do go after a while on most bog standard washing machines, and make a really noisy, horrible sound. I got fed up of replacing our machine every couple of years, so have just bought a miele, and am in love!!

oooh blu, lakeland pegs that don't leave marks!! The holy grail!
(Even ironing doesn't get peg marks out).
Need new pegs too as mine bizarrrely keep breaking (plastic fatigue).
Link pls

(laundry threads are the best aren't they, I feel we need a new topic....)

I think all mums are obsessed with laundry/washing, that's why there are so many post here.

I have one, a seat thingy with a lid in the bathroom, and I carry stuff up and down in fold down palstic crates, of which I have loads for all sorts.

Themoon66 I think that the bearings do go after a while on most bog standard washing machines, and make a really noisy, horrible sound. I got fed up of replacing our machine every couple of years, so have just bought a miele, and am in love!!

ours is a retractable one, so you have a steel loop you hook over another loop (attached to piece of wood in corner of garden) and then twist the cord around a little hook on the side to make it stable. it wasn't very good without the prop, which is metal/plastic not like the good wooden ones from ye olde dayes up north.
can't remember what colour the actual line is. pegs are nasty mish mash of cream/blue. oh for domestic godess-hood when you're pegging out. (am tempted to knit a peg bag, i have a pattern with a kath kidstonesque floral print on back)