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?

Sugarfree - I'm an OCD pegger-outer too!!! I grind my back teeth down watching DH do it. He leaves t-shirt sleeves all tucked inside where they won't dry and jumpers with the odd sleeve inside out too. He doesnt bother hanging socks out and just arranges them around the edge of the laundry basket and expects them to dry in the sun. I nip out and rearrange it all when he's not looking and if he catches me I say 'its dry on one side so I was turing it all around'.

I have to have all the tops (t-shirts, shirts, vests etc) together first so I can link them together. I only peg the very tips of the hems, so they get maximum flapping in the wind. Then I do trousers and pants and socks on the other side of the prop. Sad I know.

And yes, I do sniff the washing as I bring it in.

I only clicked on this ebcause I thought with so many posts there must be a laundry-related ruck going on.

Hello Hausfrau!

Ha ha Pruni, well I just opened it to skim over too because I couldn't believe there were this many posts about laundry baskets!

But ok, in our house:
1 in our room
1 in ds's room
1 on landing
1 in bathroom

I have two baskets, one for washing, one for ironing on shelves above the tumble dryer. I also have a smaller basket for the clean socks to go in. It's outside the bathroom in a small walkway next to the kitchen so everything goes straight in the dirty one after bathtime and then ds2 'helps' me move it into the washing machine during the day.

I do about 3 - 4 washes a day. Some goes into tumble drier, some goes upstairs in my room on a drier.

I too like sniffing clean washing as it comes out of the machine and I'm slightly obsessed with fabric conditioner

I have a love/hate relationship with washing. I love the smell and feel of clean clothes and clean bedding is heaven but hate the amount of my life I have to devote to it

Lact8 - 3-4 washes a day?

themoon66 I don't peg t-shirts etc right at the end because it leads to them going out of shape. But shirts etc yes.

Afraid so Bozza, one dark, one coloured, one whites, then bedding etc. 2 boys who are dirt magnets and dd dribbling all of the time. Then they rub/throw/dribble all over me during the day so all my stuff needs washing too. its very groundhog day with my laundry basket

How many do you do then?

Haven't read thw whole thread but I have one laundry basket in our bedroom (which is currently over-flowing). Can't be doing with more than one; tried it once in dd's room - she would just empty it and I'd find socks etc which hadn't been washed for months hidden in strange places.

I'm a bit fussy about how I hang out my washing too - when DH does it it's like a child's picture of a washing line: everything's kind of looped, and not hung straight, and as others have said, with sleeves etc folded in at random so they won't dry properly.

Anyone watching 'Honey I ruined the house' where they've put in a cupboard in the bathroom, and you put your washing in there, and it falls down a chute into a cupboard in the kitchen? Inspired!

I'm with you on the fabric softener Lact8.I use the max level in the machine,but use the concentrated stuff.

I agree Blu - why do most people hang trousers by the waistband? It is so clearly wrong

I probably do about 8-9 a week. So that is one lot of clothes (sorted according to colours) a day most days, plus extras of towels, bedding etc.

Wallace; Wrong indeed.
The heaviest bit should be at the bottom, to weigh it down for maximum anti-crease, and also so that the hardest-to-dry thick bits get maximum waft-factor in the wind.

DominiConnor, get on this thread NOW - arts grads apply SCIENCE to the washing line.

I also hang trousers by the ankles, always have. My mum does too.

lol - what a popular thread.

I have plastic carrier bags in the bottom of my wardrobe for whites and coloureds. Posh eh?

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I am going to be mocked when dh asks what i'm doing in about 2 mins time...have one washing basket at top of stairs. I only wash at weekends and refuse to have an ironing basket as it would have an excuse to keep tormenting me! Make sure i get rid of as many clothes as possible to charity to keep the balance and dh knows not to mess with me if something hasn't been washed because the likelyhood is he has been a lazy shit and stashed it at the bottom of the wardrobe or i have hung it back up because i found it on the floor and know he will want to wear it again soon!
Does that make me sound evil?
Dh obviously looked after far too well when lived with parents so it's an on-going saga!

can't resist the busmans holiday nature of this thread: one on the landing but dd1 uses the stairs up to her attic bedroom - all of them.

Drying,all mine is done on racks by my aga and then either put straight into airing cupboard (also next to aga) or hangs about waiting to be ironed.....and waiting....

If visitors come round, I put the drying racks into the scullery (oh, ok, utility room) where the washing machine and big fridge live. It also has a sink for hand-washing (yeah right, like I've hand-washed anything since 1973)

re: ironing, I obsessively iron everyone's sheets except mine and dh's, that's because they fit a 5' x 7' bed and no-one's arms are long enough to iron those.

our washing basket is in the kitchen. Ideally I'd like it to be in the bathroom but there is no space so it's in the kitchen where it's nice and easy to load up the washing machine.

Must just revive this thread to tell all you OCD dryers that before I had children I used to peg the washing out with matching/toning pegs.
I don't now, of course, I am pegging it out in 5 mins flat between making breakfast for my 3 and dashing out for my early bus to work, but I still get a secret thrill when by chance I peg a blue towel up with two matching turquoise pegs....