Share your tips for maintaining an organised laundry space - £200 voucher to be won

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Life can get hectic, especially with a busy family. We want to hear about your organisation hacks, stylish laundry space setups, or genius storage solutions you've come up with to keep everything in order.

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I use a laundry basket with 4 removable bags, like this that a poster on here recommended. https://amzn.eu/d/9JnbKtx - light, dark, bright, and filthy (DP is a builder) each bag holds a full load, when a bag gets full I wash it. No more drowning in 2.5 loads of lights or scraping around trying to find things to wash with a red top that runs.

No tumble drier, too expensive, but in winter I have an x shaped airer which I slide over the top of a dehumidifier so it's blowing dry air up into the clothes.

I also have a long line washing line - I can dry 4 or 5 loads in a day in the summer, should the mood take me! They work so much better than a rotary line.

Top hack? Don't have dogs!
Muddy dogs & clean laundry are not a good mix.

I have a basket for lights, one for darks and a separate bag for wool & delicates. Put fairy washing up liquid on any stains before putting in the machine.

Drying outside whenever possible brings me joy.

Folding bedding into the duvet for complete sets :)

Each person has a basket for clean laundry in the utility room. That way as I remove laundry from the airer I can dump it in the relevant basket rather than running up and down the stairs. A few times a week I get my dc to take their basket up to their rooms and put away their laundry.

I made a little tent on the airer with the washing under it and sort of hot box the dehumidifier so it traps the hot air. Dries much quicker

we got a dehumidifier and put it next to the clothes maiden. Makes everything dry so fast. Makes a huge difference

My best tip is to make each person in the household responsible for their own laundry at as young an age as possible!!

If a pile of clothes the size of Kilimanjaro around a knackered washing basket counts as organised then I’m winning!!

Chuck it all in - life's too short! If something comes out a slightly different colour, throw it back in with a colour catcher or stain remover lol

I put a colour catcher in every clothes wash (other than whites), which gets put inside one of those small mesh net washing bags. This is because my old washing machine started trying to eat them, along with the odd sock, which led to its untimely demise, and I'm paranoid about that happening again. It also makes it much easier to find and dispose of once the wash cycle finishes.

I'm disabled, and carrying baskets up and down the stairs isn't something I'm capable of doing. Instead, I have a blue Ikea bag to take dirty laundry downstairs, and a beige Ikea bag (other bags are available!) to put the clean washing in to take back upstairs again. We all use the bag system at home now, and it means the linen baskets stay put in bedrooms and we just take enough down for one load at a time.

We have a small gap next to the washing machine, and have a vesken trolley (Ikea again, sorry if I sound like an advert for them) that fits in there. I put pretty much all of my laundry items on there - colour catchers, stain removers, powder/pods/liquid, washing bags, etc. I can pull it out when I need something and tuck it away again afterwards.

Drier in shed. As many interchangeable clothes as possible so no one frets re where things are in the laundry cycle

I have separate colour coded laundry basket, darks, lights, colours and whites. Saves time as there’s no need to sort things before bunging in the wash

I wouldn't call my laundry space stylish but it is functional and useful. We had a long downstairs bathroom room so we converted the end of it into a laundry space. The washing machine is in a casing, so the tumble drier goes on top, saving lots of space.
I have a Joseph and Joseph washing basket which I got for my birthday (I did want it!), which has two compartments for colours and whites. You can lift the laundry in a built in bag and take this straight to the washing machine, which I like!

a basket for each bedroom, and one person in charge of the laundry (currently the DC are too little to do their own, and DH would just muck up my system).

when dry off the line / dryer they get sent into the bedrooms of the relevant people back in their basket, onto their bed. which means it HAS to be put away before you can go to sleep. enforced lazy washing!

A heated airer which folds away when not in use.

I have a folding laundry basket, and heated airer which can fold away when I'm not using it - saves space. A combined washer dryer is a space saver too !

Put all dry washing away as the new load gets hung out. Have a heated dryer and keep the windows open to stop condensation

My tip would be a laundry ball when tumble drying, and a heated airer when drying woollens and delicates

When the kids were tiny they loved to "help" and it used to keep them busy for ages sorting washing to do, then helping to hang it up and then sorting the dried washing, pairing and matching socks etc. Creating hammocks with the bedsheets whilst folding them. They loved it and it kept them entertained. Then they went through a phase of realising it was a chore but now they know to dig into the wash pile once all the dried laundry is tipped onto my bed once a week and they pull out each of their own items. Makes my job a lot easier again.

A heated airer (ones with a cover)

I plan to do a washing load each day. Some days it won't need doing but it means I consider it every day and don't a massive backlog of an endless laundry pile. It also means I only have one load to hang up to dry.

Microfibre hand towels - they dry and can be put in the towel cupboard in a fraction of the time. Non iron school uniform, and a washer/dryer combi

I was struggling with drying washing inside in winter (no room for a tumble dryer). Got a dry buddy; you hang the clothes up, put a tent over them, it blasts hot air up and they're dry within a few hours.

Boxes, boxes, boxes!

everything has a box…a box for cars, a box for Lego, a box for dolls, a box for tat, a box for dressing up, a box for trains, a box for science experiments.

the rule: only one box out at a time!

it’s the only way I can keep things clean and in their place.

Whoops wrong thread!

although I use boxes for my laundry room too 😂