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

So now you carry the basket 10 miles! You've gained precisely nothing.

But tomorrow morning, just carry the clothes down with you. Easier than carrying a large basket.

And clothes are a softer landing.

In 20 years I had one single red shirt from China that bled. Net loss, a couple of pairs of white socks that are now gay coloured. No big deal. Certainly not worth sorting clothes every wash for two decades.

One thing I hate about Chinese clothes, their sizing is off. Or more likely ours is. Chinese, skinny and fit. Brits, not so much. Americans, not at all. So when you buy clothes sized as "medium" from China, they wouldn't fit someone here over the age of 12.

It's not the washing, it's the drying (or at least the wringing out to hanging-up-without-dripping dry)

Owain

That seems to be a UK thing. I've got a couple of five gallon plastic buckets but they're rigid.

You're too poor to afford a dryer?

More like 100' to the car and 50' to the laundromat. Best deal I had was when a friend ran the laundromat. I'd throw the clothes in the washer and proceed down the street to Hannon's saloon. She'd move them to the dryer, fold them when they were done, and meet me at the bar after she closed the laundromat.

I did my laundry at a place called Duffy's years ago. The laundromat was across the street. It took one beer to wash, two to dry, and a few more just because. Working people hung out there.

Waste of space. I hang it on a line in the bathroom.

You have to try one of these, very versatile.

It's strange they don't make them over there. You can fill it with water, then pick it up and flex it a bit to make one side into a spout to pour. It'll also squeeze through a narrow doorway into a shed. It has a maximum load of 250kg!

Take the gas money you save and buy a 2nd hand washer.

When I were a lad we had a "spin dryer". Small cheap portable thing that just spun. Very lightweight, in fact so lightweight somebody had to sit on it to make it stay still.

It's called "unnecessary".

I thought you'd like that.

The womans at home, drinkin a beer and watching TV.

Paul

There was a laundromat attached to a casino a few blocks from where I work. I'd been there a few times but they had front loaders and I preferred the top loaders across down. When the top loaders were replaced by new front loaders, I figured I might as well go to the closer one. Bit of a surprise when I found it's now a liquor store. Must be more money in booze than dirty laundry.

I'm not into gambling but when it was operational I noticed many patrons disappearing into the casino while the clothes went around.

I'd prefer the method perfected by John Steinbeck in 'Travels With Charlie'. Put the clothes, water, and detergent in a garbage can in back of the van and drive down a few rough roads.

The search results say Walmart and Home Depot have 'Tubtrugs' which appear to be the same. I may have even seen them in Home Depot and didn't realize what they were.

My wife's aunt had a prehistoric machine that had an 'extractor' I think she used it as a vibrator. The one we had when I was a kid didn't have the extractor but did have the feared wringer. I liked laundry day since I could sail my pirate ship in the rinse tub.

cos I sort my clothes into two types for washing

I have one basket for each

I don't have two washing machines

HTH

tim