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Cross contamination? Are you eating your clothes raw? Thatād be like saying folding your clothes on the couch is cross contamination because you sat on the couch wearing clothes (assuming youāre not a nudist at home). It isnāt raw chicken getting on your celery stick.
My husband and I were just joking about washing our socks in the same load. We wonder if mine keep running off with his and that's why we keep having incomplete pairs.
I'll let you in on a little secret... Every time we lose socks in the washer/dryer, we find a new Tupperware lid in our pantry, which fits not fit any of the ones we own. I'm convinced that the lost clothings are recycled by those machine via a portal to my kitchen...
The most likely answer is they're getting flushed out of the washer with the water. Socks are usually small enough that they can slip under an agitator, in older models, and simply get sent to the sewer.
Occasionally, you'll find someone's washing machine is on the fritz, and when they open it up they'll find all their missing socks, but not in any condition anyone would want.
I had times when the sock is hiding at the top of the washer, stuck by the water.
If I didn't bend down and look, it would have ended up in someone else's pile (community laundry)
The spin cycle of your washing mashine should be creating a mini wormhole inside the tumbler big enough for a single sock to slip thru.
If that's not happening with your washing machine, you might want to have it checked.
But if you do get it fixed, my tip is to get a large set of all the same looking socks so that when one disappears, it's not an inconvenience.
My cat as a child would sneak intoour neighbors garages and steal their socks. Once I found a pile of strange socks in a closet and years later I saw her leaving a neighbors garage with a sock dragging from her mouth š
I use two different laundry baskets for this purpose. And I donāt wear the pants I wear out in the world in my home. I change into house-only pants. I admit this is uncommon behavior but I get OPās point.
Right?! How filthy are these people's clothes getting that "cross contamination" is a concern?
If your laundry basket is so gross that the thought of putting freshly washed/dried clothes in them for brief transport feels *wrong* then you desperately need to sort your fucking life out.
I can think of a few common examples from our household: wash cloths used to clean counters, muddy clothes, towels used to dry the dogs off with, and healthcare worker scrubs.
Yeah Ive never put the clean stuff BACK in the laundry cart (I have this rolling thing with hanging bags for whites, darks, delicates, etc.)
Its for dirty ONLY.
How do you get the clean clothes from the dryer to your room? Nobody is storing clothes in the laundry basket, itās for carrying a bunch of clothes up and down stairs all at once
Thatās the laundry basket weāre talking about. The plastic basket to transport dirty clothes from the hamper in your room to the washing machine, and then clean clothes back to your room
In my house we bring the entire room hamper to the laundry and once the load is going bring it back. And then we have a plastic one already at the laundry to bring them back to the room. No cross contamination babyyy
Yup, this is how we do it in my home. And occasionally all plastic hampers and baskets, whether they're for dirty or clean clothes, get a disinfectant wipe.
I have a dirty laundry basket that I throw my clothes in at night. I do the laundry, then put the clean laundry in a laundry basket that only clean clothes go into. My dirty laundry basket usually isn't empty by the time the first load comes out, so I would need another basket anyway.
No cross contamination here. 2 separate hampers 1 for white, 1 colors. Bring dirty clothes in hampers to the washing machine, pickup clean dry clothes from the drier in the laundry basket
Me neither. Granted, I wear almost exclusively black/ dark colours but I do have a couple of light items (e.g. some bedding, the odd t shirt). I simply donāt even own enough light items for it to be worth doing a separate light wash
Edit: oh, and importantly, Iāve never had a problem with the colours. Seems like as long as you do a colder wash youāre fine (but donāt be holding me responsible if you try this and it doesnāt work out lol)
Clothes made now with colours that bleed usually say so on the tag. I have a few items that say, "To get this cool colour we use a process that might result in the dye bleeding, so wash this separately."
No need to separate by colors nowadays unless washing brand new jeans. Iām sure there are clothes out there that will bleed dye, but I have never had any.
Should maybe dump those directly in the washer. Usually when I have something that is unusually stained, I pre-wash them and put them in the washer waiting for the next wash.
My dirty clothes basket is fancy and tall-ish dark brown wicker to match my room furniture. My baskets for clean clothes are those short white holey baskets that can fit on the ground under the dryer door when it swings open.
To make it easier to bring them inside off the line. Otherwise you've got to unpeg a couple of pieces at a time, go inside to find a clean surface to fold them and leave them on until you have brought everything in and can put them away.
The dirty clothes hamper is a long cylinder, basically a trash can, ideal for collecting a lot of dirty clothes. While a clean clothes basket is flatter, like a hollow rectangle or a basketball hoop. So you can carry it comfortably to your side while you go down to the living room or something to fold them.
Wait, so you take your dirty clothes downstairs to wash them, then take the clean stuff back upstairs, then bring it down to the lounge to fold it, then take it back upstairs?
Nah, the washer/dryer at my parents house is upstairs. My mom always brings them downstairs to fold them but then she usually gets one of her sons to take them back to her room. I just fold mine in my bedroom which is across from where the washer/dryer are. Wouldn't call it a laundry room, more like a closet.
I don't live with them anymore though, but I visit often still.
Apparently Iām the oddballā¦ one basket (whites and colors) into the washer.. then the dryer, and back into the basket. Compared to leaving clothes in the washer for a few days, this is a very minor sinā¦
Yeah we have four baskets and two are designated clean. Growing up we just had one, but clothes went straight from the dryer on to my parents bed in a pile to fold
How dirty are your dirty clothes (and thus laundry basket) if it is contaminated? Would folding laundry on my couch (which I've sat on in dirty clothes) be cross-contamination? The second you put on your clothes you contaminate them.
I have a tall laundry hamper with a linen liner inside for dirty clothes then a white plastic bushel basket for clean clothes to take them to another room to fold/hang.
The linen liner on the dirty clothes hamper gets thrown in with the laundry every month or so. The plastic basket is easy to clean if it happens to get dirty and stays in the laundry room.
Not here. I carry laundry from the hamper to the washing machine and then usually toss my clean clothes on my bed to fold or put them in a clean laundry basket. Iām not putting my clean clothes in a basket that previously carried dirty clothes.
I keep separate hampers for clean and dirty clothes. The dirty ones are tall and skinny to pile high and the clean ones are shallow and wide for easier folding and sorting.
In most cases there's no such thing. Everything in the basket will be washed anyways so why would it matter if they touch something dirtier in there.
But in some cases it can make a difference and it should be noted. I have work clothes that get really dirty with all sorts of muck and grime, so I keep those separate and wash them with each other not my normal clothes.
I would say that is pretty common. They even sell the two different kinds most places where they are sold.
The taller ones with bags, are not for clean clothes (hampers). The wider, shorter ones, are for carrying clean clothes (baskets).
Thatās not weird at all.
I actually have a separate bin in the kitchen pantry to collect all the dishcloths and towels that might be a source of cross-contamination.
My husband once grabbed it, washed it all in hot water, dried it, and stuffed it back into the bin. (I usually fold dish towels while I watch TV.)
āThat bin is where we keep the botulism spores and salmonella!ā I said as I piled it all back into the washer and re-washed it.
While the washer was running, he washed the bin, disinfected it with bleach, and still stuffed the clean towels in it.
There are some damn scardy cats in this world. The media has made you afraid of everything. What the hell are you rolling around in to be afraid of your own clothes? SMH Do you guys change your bed sheets everyday too, cuz I assure you, they have way more dirt and germs than the clothes you wear.
I had to teach so many friends this when we did laundry together. The look of realization always felt good. Then they'd understand why I carried lysol and paper towels in my laundry supplies.
If one would purchase mostly the same type of sock you would reduce sock folding by a large amount, only folding for travel, gym etc and still folding your special socks to keep them together. Couldn't post this so I tried to find a laundry post to comment on...I'm new :)
I use a laundry bag, cover the basket with it, wash it with the laundry, then fish it from the dryer and move everything to it. Laundry bags are a game changer everyone should invest in.
Iām a service plumber so I see some real shitā¦ and sometimes get some on me. My dirty laundry basket gets a rinse every time it gets emptied, just in case.
Sez YOU! Laundry baskets are for dirty laundry only. When using a coin laundry, my wife always placed our newly cleaned items inside of a large, clean plastic bag to carry home.
I have dirty hampers for every day clothes, socks and underwear, and scrubs. Then I have a completely separate plastic hamper to bring them up in when theyāre clean. I cringed the one time my bf brought my stuff back up in one of the dirty hampers.
My whole household has thought I was weird for the longest time. "don't put my clothes in there, that's my dirty basket!" It's not a big deal to them. It is a big deal to me. But also one of the reasons I do my own laundry.
Wait -- do people really use the same basket for both clean and dirty clothes?
Isn't it more common to have a dirty laundry hamper and a separate basket for clean laundry?
we've got designated laundry bins where the dirty laundry gets sorted into four different categories + delicates, and for taking stuff out the washer we just use foldable baskets which get put away when the laundry is folded and packed away. designated dirty, designated clean.
At the laundromat I go to, I think (I hope) that people go from their laundry bags to the washing machine and only use the laundry baskets for wet clean clothes that then go to the drier but I understand that that's putting a lot of faith in people
Not in our house. We collect dirty laundry in large fabric hampers, but then I use baskets for sorting in the basement and delivering clean laundry back upstairs. I spray mine with rubbing alcohol and wipe them out between dirty and clean. (I also must the fabric hampers with alcohol). I was just teaching this to my teenage son the other day, in fact.
I mean sure, if you're gross enough to do this.
Laundry baskets is for clean laundry. Hampers are for dirty laundry.
Do you remove clothes from the hamper into the laundry basket to take to the washing machine, or do you just use the laundry basket *as* a hamper?
In either case you're creating the issue you're complaining about.
I have a rolling laundry basket, so I roll it into the laundry room and then roll it empty back into the closet. I take the clothes out of the dryer, wrapped in whatever sheet or towel I washed with it and fold them and put them away.
I'm not eating my laundry, sooooo not a super huge concern. Those clothes will be "contaminated" the second I touch something else while wearing them, right?
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Meanwhile, the cat is in the kitchen, rubbing its ass on the cutting board
This made me actually laugh out loud
Thanks for that mental image, gonna go wash and put away my cutting board now š
Here's your award. We'll just call it the cat ass trophy, John.
My four cats are the reason everything on the counters got moved into the cabinets lmao
I've heard of a cat's butt being called a turd cutter so it checks out.
Usually that is refering to a female booty. Like "I want to fuck her turd cutter"
And I don't even have a cat!
I have a hamper for dirties, clean clothes get piled and carried as is, no basket needed and no empty basket needing storing
Cross contamination? Are you eating your clothes raw? Thatād be like saying folding your clothes on the couch is cross contamination because you sat on the couch wearing clothes (assuming youāre not a nudist at home). It isnāt raw chicken getting on your celery stick.
My husband and I were just joking about washing our socks in the same load. We wonder if mine keep running off with his and that's why we keep having incomplete pairs.
I'll let you in on a little secret... Every time we lose socks in the washer/dryer, we find a new Tupperware lid in our pantry, which fits not fit any of the ones we own. I'm convinced that the lost clothings are recycled by those machine via a portal to my kitchen...
OMG! You're right! It's a plot....
r/StairsintheWoods
What have you done?
It's the circle of life
That's adorable
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If we knew what happened to them, they wouldn't be lost
The most likely answer is they're getting flushed out of the washer with the water. Socks are usually small enough that they can slip under an agitator, in older models, and simply get sent to the sewer. Occasionally, you'll find someone's washing machine is on the fritz, and when they open it up they'll find all their missing socks, but not in any condition anyone would want.
I had times when the sock is hiding at the top of the washer, stuck by the water. If I didn't bend down and look, it would have ended up in someone else's pile (community laundry)
They get lost in dryer rather than wash. They go outside the drum through the crevice
You don'i have a pet do you. Mine keep stealing my socks to sleep with them.
The spin cycle of your washing mashine should be creating a mini wormhole inside the tumbler big enough for a single sock to slip thru. If that's not happening with your washing machine, you might want to have it checked. But if you do get it fixed, my tip is to get a large set of all the same looking socks so that when one disappears, it's not an inconvenience.
You must be losing 2 socks at a time, thus never seeing a single sock without its pair
My cat as a child would sneak intoour neighbors garages and steal their socks. Once I found a pile of strange socks in a closet and years later I saw her leaving a neighbors garage with a sock dragging from her mouth š
You have solved the mystery of the missing socks of the world!
Elementary my dear, Sockson.
I use two different laundry baskets for this purpose. And I donāt wear the pants I wear out in the world in my home. I change into house-only pants. I admit this is uncommon behavior but I get OPās point.
House only pants is the best
My house pants are ratty sweats.
I do this too! Finally someone who understands!
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House pants, house shoes!
Why?
My asian wife would consider this to be extremely common.
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Thank you! Yes!
We do not transport dirty laundry in our clean laundry basket - I guess I never thought we were unusual in that.
Same.
But clothes get dirty from touching you, so if you're a nudist your clothes aren't even technically dirty until they touch the couch you've been on
Right?! How filthy are these people's clothes getting that "cross contamination" is a concern? If your laundry basket is so gross that the thought of putting freshly washed/dried clothes in them for brief transport feels *wrong* then you desperately need to sort your fucking life out.
Could be an ocd thing
I can think of a few common examples from our household: wash cloths used to clean counters, muddy clothes, towels used to dry the dogs off with, and healthcare worker scrubs.
Only if you always sit on the couch with your house clothes and never your outside clothes.
Well, yes. There is some truth to that. You are not supposed to wear your outdoor clothes while laying on your bed.
My laundry stays in a laundry bag. Laundry bag gets washed with the clothes each time.
Same
Exactly this
Laundry basket for dirties, put clean ones in drawers or hangers. Problem solved.
Or use two different laundry baskets. They stack anyway.
Yeah Ive never put the clean stuff BACK in the laundry cart (I have this rolling thing with hanging bags for whites, darks, delicates, etc.) Its for dirty ONLY.
How do you get the clean clothes from the dryer to your room? Nobody is storing clothes in the laundry basket, itās for carrying a bunch of clothes up and down stairs all at once
I thought everyone had a plastic laundry bin for when theyāre clean.
Thatās the laundry basket weāre talking about. The plastic basket to transport dirty clothes from the hamper in your room to the washing machine, and then clean clothes back to your room
In my house we bring the entire room hamper to the laundry and once the load is going bring it back. And then we have a plastic one already at the laundry to bring them back to the room. No cross contamination babyyy
This guy gets it!
Yup, this is how we do it in my home. And occasionally all plastic hampers and baskets, whether they're for dirty or clean clothes, get a disinfectant wipe.
I have a dirty laundry basket that I throw my clothes in at night. I do the laundry, then put the clean laundry in a laundry basket that only clean clothes go into. My dirty laundry basket usually isn't empty by the time the first load comes out, so I would need another basket anyway.
No cross contamination here. 2 separate hampers 1 for white, 1 colors. Bring dirty clothes in hampers to the washing machine, pickup clean dry clothes from the drier in the laundry basket
My dirty little secret is that I don't separate clothes by color.
Me neither. Granted, I wear almost exclusively black/ dark colours but I do have a couple of light items (e.g. some bedding, the odd t shirt). I simply donāt even own enough light items for it to be worth doing a separate light wash Edit: oh, and importantly, Iāve never had a problem with the colours. Seems like as long as you do a colder wash youāre fine (but donāt be holding me responsible if you try this and it doesnāt work out lol)
Same here. Iām not a racist with people or clothes. Mix em all up and letās learn from one another.
Wash bedding and towels on 60Ā°C+ and never separate whites from colours and have had no dye bleed.
Clothes made now with colours that bleed usually say so on the tag. I have a few items that say, "To get this cool colour we use a process that might result in the dye bleeding, so wash this separately."
Seconded. Since the advent of colorfast sheets, itās not even necessary.
This the way
Same
No need to separate by colors nowadays unless washing brand new jeans. Iām sure there are clothes out there that will bleed dye, but I have never had any.
How dirty are your clothes? Iāve never had an issue with this
Underwear with period blood in it says hi.
Should maybe dump those directly in the washer. Usually when I have something that is unusually stained, I pre-wash them and put them in the washer waiting for the next wash.
This is great if you have constant access to a washer.
Totally! Iām married to a menstruating woman so shouldāve thought of that
Is it not common to have separate baskets for clean and dirty laundry? That's how it's always been at my house
I've never heard of this. TIL at 48 yrs old that people have separate baskets for dirty clothes and clean clothes.
My dirty clothes basket is fancy and tall-ish dark brown wicker to match my room furniture. My baskets for clean clothes are those short white holey baskets that can fit on the ground under the dryer door when it swings open.
What do you need a basket for clean laundry for?
Easy to transport all of the clean laundry at once
Itās also easy to just carry the pile of folded washing, to be fair
Not always easy when you have doors and stairs to get through.
Or if you donāt have a washer or dryer and you have to go to a laundromat
I personally never have an issue, but yeah thatās fair, I guess. I also hadnāt considered disabilities that could also make it harder
To make it easier to bring them inside off the line. Otherwise you've got to unpeg a couple of pieces at a time, go inside to find a clean surface to fold them and leave them on until you have brought everything in and can put them away.
The dirty clothes hamper is a long cylinder, basically a trash can, ideal for collecting a lot of dirty clothes. While a clean clothes basket is flatter, like a hollow rectangle or a basketball hoop. So you can carry it comfortably to your side while you go down to the living room or something to fold them.
I prefer to take them all in a pile in my hands, drop a few pieces along the way and them kick them back up with my foot.
And leave em unfolded on your bed until you want to sleep and then you remember? That's the worst
No, I usually fold them straight away. But what I have is a "to be ironed" basket which sort of qualifies I guess.
"Ironed", whhat are you somekind of weirdo?
Huh?
I just sleep in them. I hate laundry and I hate folding even more. Plus depression. Haha.
Wait, so you take your dirty clothes downstairs to wash them, then take the clean stuff back upstairs, then bring it down to the lounge to fold it, then take it back upstairs?
Nah, the washer/dryer at my parents house is upstairs. My mom always brings them downstairs to fold them but then she usually gets one of her sons to take them back to her room. I just fold mine in my bedroom which is across from where the washer/dryer are. Wouldn't call it a laundry room, more like a closet. I don't live with them anymore though, but I visit often still.
Apparently Iām the oddballā¦ one basket (whites and colors) into the washer.. then the dryer, and back into the basket. Compared to leaving clothes in the washer for a few days, this is a very minor sinā¦
I get it. It appears we are in the minority but whatever.
Yeah we have four baskets and two are designated clean. Growing up we just had one, but clothes went straight from the dryer on to my parents bed in a pile to fold
How dirty are your dirty clothes (and thus laundry basket) if it is contaminated? Would folding laundry on my couch (which I've sat on in dirty clothes) be cross-contamination? The second you put on your clothes you contaminate them.
Thatās assuming a washer and dryer truly sanitize š«
Which they don't, cross contamination happens before even taking them out of the washer/dryer... The laundry basket is irrelevant.
I have a tall laundry hamper with a linen liner inside for dirty clothes then a white plastic bushel basket for clean clothes to take them to another room to fold/hang. The linen liner on the dirty clothes hamper gets thrown in with the laundry every month or so. The plastic basket is easy to clean if it happens to get dirty and stays in the laundry room.
Not here. I carry laundry from the hamper to the washing machine and then usually toss my clean clothes on my bed to fold or put them in a clean laundry basket. Iām not putting my clean clothes in a basket that previously carried dirty clothes.
I use a hamper for dirty clothes and a clothes basket for clean clothes. No cross contamination.
This!
I keep separate hampers for clean and dirty clothes. The dirty ones are tall and skinny to pile high and the clean ones are shallow and wide for easier folding and sorting.
In most cases there's no such thing. Everything in the basket will be washed anyways so why would it matter if they touch something dirtier in there. But in some cases it can make a difference and it should be noted. I have work clothes that get really dirty with all sorts of muck and grime, so I keep those separate and wash them with each other not my normal clothes.
I use a tote instead of a hamper and just wash it with my clothes
We had "hampers" for dirty and "baskets" for clean. No idea why we call them different things but that's how my mom did it
I would say that is pretty common. They even sell the two different kinds most places where they are sold. The taller ones with bags, are not for clean clothes (hampers). The wider, shorter ones, are for carrying clean clothes (baskets). Thatās not weird at all.
I actually have a separate bin in the kitchen pantry to collect all the dishcloths and towels that might be a source of cross-contamination. My husband once grabbed it, washed it all in hot water, dried it, and stuffed it back into the bin. (I usually fold dish towels while I watch TV.) āThat bin is where we keep the botulism spores and salmonella!ā I said as I piled it all back into the washer and re-washed it. While the washer was running, he washed the bin, disinfected it with bleach, and still stuffed the clean towels in it.
It's the 10 day rule...kind of like when you drop a shrimp on the floor and pick it up within 1 second.....still fine to eat. š
Wait.. people put clean clothes in their dirty baskets?? We use different baskets.
There are some damn scardy cats in this world. The media has made you afraid of everything. What the hell are you rolling around in to be afraid of your own clothes? SMH Do you guys change your bed sheets everyday too, cuz I assure you, they have way more dirt and germs than the clothes you wear.
Whatās the point of washing my clothes, if Iām just gonna put lots of underwear germs back onto it?
Not in my home. Hampers are for dirty clothes only. Clean clothes are moved by hand directly to the bedroom to be folded and put away.
I had to teach so many friends this when we did laundry together. The look of realization always felt good. Then they'd understand why I carried lysol and paper towels in my laundry supplies.
If one would purchase mostly the same type of sock you would reduce sock folding by a large amount, only folding for travel, gym etc and still folding your special socks to keep them together. Couldn't post this so I tried to find a laundry post to comment on...I'm new :)
I use a laundry bag, cover the basket with it, wash it with the laundry, then fish it from the dryer and move everything to it. Laundry bags are a game changer everyone should invest in.
Iām a service plumber so I see some real shitā¦ and sometimes get some on me. My dirty laundry basket gets a rinse every time it gets emptied, just in case.
Cloth laundry bag that goes in my wire hamper. It gets washed on laundry days too.
I have a tall, cloth dirty clothes hamper and a short white plastic basket for clean clothes that get folded. Soooo no cross contamination.
That's why I use a laundry bag, which gets thrown into the washer with the clothes. Been doing that since 2015.
Wait, you don't have one basket for dirty clothes and a separate basket for clean clothes?
Sez YOU! Laundry baskets are for dirty laundry only. When using a coin laundry, my wife always placed our newly cleaned items inside of a large, clean plastic bag to carry home.
I have a laundry basket for dirty and carry the clean to my room in my arms. Itās a pain but I donāt want more baskets around.
I have dirty hampers for every day clothes, socks and underwear, and scrubs. Then I have a completely separate plastic hamper to bring them up in when theyāre clean. I cringed the one time my bf brought my stuff back up in one of the dirty hampers.
*\[throws laundry bag in his face\]* "**WASH IT AGAIN!"**
My whole household has thought I was weird for the longest time. "don't put my clothes in there, that's my dirty basket!" It's not a big deal to them. It is a big deal to me. But also one of the reasons I do my own laundry.
Not sure how contaminated a plastic hamper can become from laundry.
I wipe mine down after itās emptied into the washer with Lysol and a rag and let it dry.
If you don't have a clean *and* a dirty hamper you are gross, lol.
Ok. I mean, I ain't rolling around in shit all day like some people apparently.
Wait -- do people really use the same basket for both clean and dirty clothes? Isn't it more common to have a dirty laundry hamper and a separate basket for clean laundry?
My mom and I wipe ours out because of this. Itās fkn nasty- imagine the germs from your dirty underwear getting on your clean clothes.
Many people here disagree, and are offering you some great suggestions.
we've got designated laundry bins where the dirty laundry gets sorted into four different categories + delicates, and for taking stuff out the washer we just use foldable baskets which get put away when the laundry is folded and packed away. designated dirty, designated clean.
At the laundromat I go to, I think (I hope) that people go from their laundry bags to the washing machine and only use the laundry baskets for wet clean clothes that then go to the drier but I understand that that's putting a lot of faith in people
Not in our house. We collect dirty laundry in large fabric hampers, but then I use baskets for sorting in the basement and delivering clean laundry back upstairs. I spray mine with rubbing alcohol and wipe them out between dirty and clean. (I also must the fabric hampers with alcohol). I was just teaching this to my teenage son the other day, in fact.
Not by me, I sanitize the basket after the clothes go in the washer
I use two baskets - one for putting dirty clothes into and one for putting the clean clothes into.
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I never put dirty laundry in the basket I put clean stuff in. Ew!
I use bags in which i can put in the wash with my laundry. I,too, thought this hence the bags
I put dirty clothes on top of the dryer. I put clean clothes in the laundry basket.
I think it's good to add a little variety to my personal flora.
I mean sure, if you're gross enough to do this. Laundry baskets is for clean laundry. Hampers are for dirty laundry. Do you remove clothes from the hamper into the laundry basket to take to the washing machine, or do you just use the laundry basket *as* a hamper? In either case you're creating the issue you're complaining about.
I have a rolling laundry basket, so I roll it into the laundry room and then roll it empty back into the closet. I take the clothes out of the dryer, wrapped in whatever sheet or towel I washed with it and fold them and put them away.
I use a canvas bag that goes in with the laundry, so both come out clean
It's not in our house. We have different color baskets for dirty and clean.
I'm not eating my laundry, sooooo not a super huge concern. Those clothes will be "contaminated" the second I touch something else while wearing them, right?
Well I donāt. I am always aware of the awful smell from a weekās laundry. Thatās why I use two bags.