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?

sorry - its only in the kitchen because our washing machine and tumble dryer are in the brick shed, so laundry basket lives by the back door!

WHAT A HUGE MASS OF OPINION AND YOU WOULD THINK THIS THREAD WAS A DULL SUBJECT ! So to add to this never ending topic .....I do bout 3 loads a day and have the basket on the landing. It is ofen overflowing with teenagers stuff so used as a general dump yard for stuff they wont hang up.
AAAAHHH! It is the bain of my life >>>hate it hate it hate it. And as for smelly dp underpants AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ! !

I am on my second washing machine in 9 years (and the first one was reconditioned).

Does anyone else have a touch of OCD about the way the washing is pegged out?
When I was 2 weeks post-section after Ds1 I watched DH from the kitchen window with white knuckles as he pegged a couple of loads out.Waited til he went to work and went out and rearranged the whole lot.
I have been known to snatch a basket from MIL on her way to the line so I could do it my way.

sugarfree, that is very sad. my life is so packed with other things i wouldn't have time/couldn't be arsed to do that,

Sugarfree - I am the same.

jeans have to go on a certain part of the line that gets the sun all day

small bits have to go near the wall so the wind won't waft them into spiders' webs

SADDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

One dirty washing basket in hall, opposite bathroom door as the bathrooom isn't big enough. An overflowing washing basket is the first thing you see when you walk into my house - lovely

Would like one in my bedroom as well because we end up with piles on the floor by the door.

Gosh yes sugarfree that is me! When my mum was hanging out my washing today she was moving the pegs onto the wrong bits of the whirlygig

I dry on the line as much as possible (have been known to bring it in because it is snowing). Airer in the bathroom when it's really wet out. I have a tumble drier but only use for dps work trousers, and fluffing up nappies, unless I have a serious backlog.
I also have my own way of pegging out, but have never gone as far as to re do it.

In the bathroom. Our washing machine is next to the bathroom so I sort the washing when DS is having his bath.

One in our bedroom.
One in DD's bedroom.
One in DS's bedroom.
One in utility room (for bibs, teatowels, dusters etc.)

One of the selling points for this house was its utility room - magic!! As for laundry bins:

1 in main bathroom
1 in dressing room (wardrobe area our room)
1 in utility by washing machine

As for doing the washing - at least 1 load a day and I'm really, really trying to keep the ironing basket down to about 1 foot high!!! But I think today it's going to be a lot taller - so I guess tomorrow is going to be ironing day!!

Have a really super swish steam iron now - one with the large resevoir of water - works so much quicker than my old iron - it makes a dull, tedious job almost bearable

There's been a lovely drying day here .

It is quite satisfying when the balance sheet balances though .

small bad mummy confession...I don't iron....ever

One laundry basket in the bedroom, one in dd's bedroom at the moment but may have one in the bathroom when we move as I am FED UP of picking dh's pants up off the bathroom floor.

I know someone who irons everything down to bras,pants and socks.
Don't ask me how she manages to iron a bra,I was in shock and my brain melted after she told me.

Does anyone else lovingly sniff the washing when they take it off the line

I was lovingly sniffing the washing earlier on .

Piccalli, can I warn you that having a washing basket in the bathroom does not necessarily mean that pants (or anything else) will be put in there.

Yes, will admit to obsesional hanging habits. Jeans MUST be hung upside down, not pegged through the waistband so that it doesn't dry! Ditto shirts - hang upside down. Everything streteched and smoothed out before hanging (essential for non-ironers like me).

My grandmother showed me how to hand 'body clothes' as she called them, all on the skew so the neighbours couldn't get a good look at them!!

freak

:)