What’s with all these bedroom hampers? My hamper is in the bathroom, where god intended it to be.
I voted for hamper in the bedroom, but it is really a laundry basket in the bedroom. I think hampers are silly. You can’t carry them out of the room and the stuff in the hamper justs continues to get mustier while waiting to be washed. The laundry basket, while less attractive, doesn’t stink and is easy to empty.
I grew up in a house with a great laundry chute so when I moved out I actually had to figure out where to put my dirty clothes until I was ready to wash them.
We put our nightly laundry in the second bathroom sink. In the morning, hub takes it to the laundry room where it waits to be washed. Unfortunately, we live in a looooong ranch and the laundry is as far away from the bedroom as you can get so a hamper would be cumbersome and heavy to shuttle.
I hate doing laundry. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I therefore devised this method for Ultimate Lazy Laundry:
- Everyday clothes live in the laundry room. That is their home. They are not allowed to venture anywhere else unless they are being worn by someone.
- Special occasion and dry-clean only clothes are permitted to live in the bedroom closet.
- Get undressed in the laundry room when you’re changing clothes. Toss the dirties right into the open washer. (For this method to work, everyone else in the house has to do this too. )
- Every morning, on your way to work, dump in the detergent, shut the lid. Voila! When you get home, transfer the clothes to the dryer.
No hampers, no dirty clothes on the floor! It’s magic!
Bill and I have separate bedrooms. He has a basket in his bedroom, I have a basket in mine. This works out well because I prefer to wash my clothes separately from his, as mine require gentler handling. We also have a basket in the bathroom, which is where the washcloths and bath and kitchen towels go. When we change sheets, we just take the dirty sheets and pillowcases directly to the washer, we don’t put them in a basket or hamper. Actually, the baskets in the bedroom are double, that is, one basket inside another, in case we need an overflow basket. Usually we don’t need them, but they were left over from when our daughter lived with us…and she used to wear more than one outfit every day. She’d get home from school or work, change clothes, and go out again.
We have a big laundry bag that dirty laundry goes into. It’s stored behind the ironing board, which leans against the wall in the wife’s dressing room. (That’s the second bedroom in our two-bedroom place, but the wife uses it as her dressing room.)
But this being Thailand, especially Bangkok, our (especially my) sweaty clothes get hung on the wooden “laundry chair” to dry out first.
I voted “on the floor”, but I do my best to keep the pile on the floor of the closet. I only have about a week’s worth of clothing unpacked after my most recent move, since I’m planning to move again soon. So I just do laundry each weekend and the laundry pile doesn’t get a chance to spread too far.
I had been a laundry slob for years until I discovered my new system. We both wear junk clothes, with husband in construction and I work on the farm so we don’t need to do anything special like separating darks from lights etc. So, when dirty clothes are taken off, they go right into the washing machine. When the washing machine is full, I start it up and make sure that they are dried and folded the same day. This works out to a load for the two of us about every other to every third day. It has been great and doesn’t become an overwhelming job with only one load to process at a time plus we always have clean clothes and towels.
No more digging down into the hamper to pull smelly, dirty clothes out or having piles of either clean or dirty clothes to process. Plus I have this really proud feeling of keeping up with the laundry and it has become much less of an onerous chore.
Dang I am sorry. I did it again. Every time that I post in a thread, which is not often, I kill it. Sorry. I thought this was a really interesting question in any case. Please, don’t let me be the killer of yet another interesting thread. This board is starting to mirror my real social life…
You and me both, mate.
The poll results kind of surprise me. Then again, I imagine some of you have more aesthetically pleasing hampers than I do.
Because we have a first floor master bedroom with the garage door right near by, my clothing and my husbands goes right into a hamper in the garage where the washer and dryer are. The kids have hampers in their rooms.
While the strictly correct answer is “on the floor”, that unfairly makes me seem a slob. The full answer is “on the floor in my closet, and taken to a hamper in the laundry room in the morning”.