OT: What's the point of a laundry basket?

Because I'm not about to traipse up and down 2 flight of stairs just to dump a few clothes each day. :-(

(Now if I still had a "clothes chute" like the last house........)

Presumably your machine is on the 1st floor, and you sleep on the 2nd floor. Presumably you spend most of your day on the 1st floor. Why not bring the clothes down with you when you get up in the morning?

Commander Kinsey snipped-for-privacy@military.org.jp> wrote

Some don't have everything in the one load, stupid.

No, 2 flights meant I'm on 2nd floor, and machine is in basement.

Besides, what about folks who have no machine, and use a laundromat ? BYDT

My first house was two flight of stairs for laundry. Next house was one flight, much better This house, same floor. Best way ever.

And still more convenient to have a laundry basket where you change your clothes most than to have to put the dirty stuff straight in the machine.

But surely you come downstairs each day when you get up? Is it so hard to just carry your clothes then?

They still have those? I thought those went out in the 60s. My washing machine cost me nothing, I got it on freecycle, so don't claim people can be too poor to own one.

DMMLTU

Don't suppose ever heard of "sorting" did you?

Still more convenient to have a laundry basket where you dress and move that just once when you do the washing.

Yep, used by the pickers and backpackers etc here.

As usual, you are wrong.

Some don't have anywhere to put a free one.

Why would I sort dirty clothes from dirty clothes? They all get washed together. You do realise dyes are all colour fast now?

Not all of them are. I just washed some IZOD jeans with some white wash cloths. The white ones are now a light shade of blue.

Was doing the laudry as my wife is laid up for a while with a sholder replacement. Caught a litle flack about that.

Wow, don't buy IZOD jeans again. Even cheap supermarket jeans in the UK don't bleed colour.

Because the washing machine is 10 miles away?

I haven't owned a washing machine since the early '70s. After horsing that f****ng thing into the cellar I said 'Never again.'

Try some cheap Chinese flannel shirts. Or expensive Chinese flannel shirts for that matter. The only difference is if you pay more the sleeves aren't cut to fit an alligator.

Because in my case the place I disrobe is upstairs in my bedroom and the machine is downstairs near the back door. In any case you may like myself be clumsy, and the plastic baskets can be quite a soft landing if you fall over a cable you left on the floor yesterday.. ahem. Brian

A clothes shute? How quaint. Did it have one of those wire operated bell racks so bells rang from different of the mansion in the servants quarters below stairs? Probably had a speaking tube as well. Brian