Laundry Basket/Hamper

[_19disnA]

Ok so here’s a thing that apparently is controversial - so you wash your linen as well as all towels (both bathroom towels as well as kitchen dish towels) together? Supposedly the vast majority online believe that no tea towels etc should be in the same washing bundle as towels that touch your bodies? Thoughts?

Never knew that was a 'thing'. Isn't the point of using the washing machine & detergent to clean the items you place in there? My washing machine has a 'tub clean' setting where you toss in some bleach/Clorox (into an empty machine) and run the cycle maybe once a month to sanitize the washer. Never gave any thought to separating items based on how they are used.

 

[HopperFan]

Who would’ve thought something so banal could inspire such intense conversation

I came back to this thread because it floated high on the list and I really am kinda fascinated reading all these posts. I really wonder how many things we do in our life that are so different from others - that have the same goal. Who knew there were so many ways to do laundry.

When I was younger I was determined there were some things my family did that I was NEVER going to do when I was a grownup on my own. I lived a good life, but my family saved where we could. One thing folks did was put a big towel rack on the back of each of our bedroom doors. We got two bath towels (long haired girls) and we would hang our towels after use. They got washed once a week. They said "If you shower well and are clean, your towels are reusable". As an adult it is one of my rules, use towels once. We have a basket just for our bath towels. I take short efficient showers as I'd rather put the water towards clean towels.

 

[sam_gordon]

I came back to this thread because it floated high on the list and I really am kinda fascinated reading all these posts. I really wonder how many things we do in our life that are so different from others - that have the same goal. Who knew there were so many ways to do laundry.

When I was younger I was determined there were some things my family did that I was NEVER going to do when I was a grownup on my own. I lived a good life, but my family saved where we could. One thing folks did was put a big towel rack on the back of each of our bedroom doors. We got two bath towels (long haired girls) and we would hang our towels after use. They got washed once a week. They said "If you shower well and are clean, your towels are reusable". As an adult it is one of my rules, use towels once. We have a basket just for our bath towels. I take short efficient showers as I'd rather put the water towards clean towels.

That could be a whole other thread... are bath towels "one use" or "multi use"? Heck, I'll wear pants multiple days (not if they're used doing yard work or something truly dirty), and wear my pajamas multiple days (about a week) too.

 

[sam_gordon]

The basket is to transport dirty laundry only. Once the dryer is completed, I take the mound of clean clothes to the family room, throw it on the coach and begin my folding, etc. I watch T.V. at the same time to pass the time.

Oh...I leave a trail of clothes. It was either that or put a television in the laundry room.

This just dawned on me today. You won't put clean clothes back in the basket, but dropping them on the floor is ok?

 

[brockash]

I was scrolling through Instagram last night and came across a video of a woman showing off the built-in drying racks in her laundry room, but the comments were all about how she was using the same laundry basket for dirty and clean clothes.

Do you use separate baskets or hampers for dirty and clean clothes?

We don't use separate baskets. We toss dirty clothes in the basket and when it's full, we do laundry. It goes from the washer to the dryer and back in the same basket to get folded and put away. Maybe if we had a different lifestyle with clothes that got really dirty I could see using a basket for dirty and clean clothes, but that's not us.

Yes...we have a taller laundry basket we keep in our rooms for our dirty clothes and then when it comes out of the dryer it goes in one of the rectangular ones for folding.

 

[amylevan]

That could be a whole other thread... are bath towels "one use" or "multi use"? Heck, I'll wear pants multiple days (not if they're used doing yard work or something truly dirty), and wear my pajamas multiple days (about a week) too.

Towels are washed once a week in our house. Jeans and pajamas are worn multiple days. Sweatshirts that are worn over tee shirts are also usually re-worn.

We also reuse laundry baskets. (They serve as hampers in everyone closest, carry those dirty clothes to the laundry room, and are retuned to their rooms filled with folded clean clothes.)

The horror that some of you would have in our house.

 

[_19disnA]

Have always used bath towels for 2-3 days before washing them. You use a towel to dry off after taking a shower/bath so your body would be clean at that point. I don't see the need to change towels daily.

For those who change bath towels daily, how often do you swap out your kitchen towels?