Laundry Baskets & Laundry Hampers

One of the first steps to getting organized in the laundry room is deciding on what laundry baskets or hampers you want to use in your bedrooms and bathroom. Do you want a laundry basket that can function as both the bedroom laundry basket and as a laundry sorter in the laundry room or would you rather have both?

One good way to stay on top of the constantly in flux laundry situation in any household is to have a laundry basket in each bedroom, for each member of your household, and a hamper in your bathroom. The hamper in your bathroom could be a laundry sorter or you could just have the laundry sorter in the laundry room, keeping the hamper in the bathroom. The reason we recommend having a basket in each bedroom is because we don’t always do laundry often enough to simply walk around the home collecting all the dirty laundry and putting it in one basket. There are a couple of different ways to stay on top of the laundry situation and keep it organized and in constant running, so to speak.

You can take a basket from the master bedroom, let’s say, and sort it out in the laundry room using a laundry sorter – whites in one canvas bag, colors in one, brights in another. One of our three bag laundry sorters that we offer at SpaceSavers would be perfect for this. Because we often get interrupted while doing the laundry, we recommend putting the basket back in the bedroom, just in case you don’t get done with the laundry before it is time for another change of clothing. Because of this, it’s a good idea to keep extra baskets in the laundry room for when a load of clothes are ready to be pulled out of the dryer or drying rack and folded. Always sort out the clothes as you fold placing them in a basket where all the clothing is going to the same room. It saves you some time in putting the laundry away.

Or if you have children old enough to put away their own laundry, all you have to do is drop off the basket of laundry in their room. If you are going to attempt to clean everyone’s laundry in one day or at least get started on it, use your sorter once again to sort out according to the different kinds of washing loads – hot or cold, white or colors, etc. Then, when the laundry is clean, just remember to sort out as you fold into separate baskets each person’s clothing – your oldest child’s laundry in the blue basket, your youngest child’s in the yellow basket, and your laundry in the white basket and so on. When you go to drop off your teenager’s laundry in his room, leave the basket of clean laundry and pick up the other basket that was left in his room with the next round of dirty laundry. So, you have this constant flux of incoming and outgoing laundry from the laundry room. You don’t have to waste time picking up dirty socks from the back of the closet, because there was no basket in the room.

When it is time to do the bathroom towels, just scoop out the towels from the hamper in the bathroom, putting them in a laundry bag or basket and take it to the laundry room. At SpaceSavers, you will find a wide range of laundry baskets, hampers, and laundry sorters. You will find something that will fit the needs of your household. Don’t worry about the laundry anymore. Just stay organized with SpaceSavers!

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