Never putting laundry away

Llamedos13

I’m bemused too AussieGran by the mountains of laundry piled high in my daughters house. It’s all over the place,on the sofa,in laundry baskets, piled on the ends of the kids beds all in a crumpled heap. I wonder how she finds anything to wear!.

Our son’s place is the same. The house is like a huge laundry processing emporium. They all seem to know which pile is clean and which is for washing….

Not a lot of ironing is undertaken in our household (and then it's mostly kitchen/dining "linens", so they'll all fit into drawers). Instead we hang up a lot of items on a hangaway stand. This and other washing is put away as soon as possible: I don't want it hanging around! I rather like folding and storing clean laundry: and (IMO & experience) children can learn to do this from an early age. It also makes life easier if "everything has a place" and thus can be found when needed.

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I don't know what an airing cupboard is
Washing hung out in Australia is "cupboard dry" when it comes off the line. In fact, last summer in the UK was hot and sunny too. 😲

However, clothes that have been ironed with a steam iron or are not quite dry when taken off the line need airing - the airing cupboard contains the hot water tank so is like a drying cupboard.

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I remember when I had children at home, a dog, DH often working away, an over-full basket of ironing .....
Once when my MIL was staying she eyed up the laundry basket and I thought she was going to offer to do some while I was at work. She said "I'd die if I had to face that lot of ironing"
😁

we both work full time and only have one left at home as he other children ae adults and we have never had support or help off extended family. We always have washing out in some way or another and I really don't think this is unusual at all. The dog doesn;t interfere with it

I wish I had the luxury of having time to fold the clean clothes when they come out of the dryer - between work, kids, activities and other more important house chores, this one is nowhere close to the top of my dh's and my priority list

We get to it as when we can and it's OK.
There are more important things in life

I live in a 3 bedroom house without a cupboard in it. I am a wash freak and end up having piles of folded clothes in the 3rd bedroom on the bed because there is nowhere to put the vast majority, especially bedding.

I had fitted wardrobes made but there is a limit to what they will take.

not exactly hard to walk upstairs with it after all is it
Yes, it is at the moment ☹

I'd never dump it on the sofa (the kitchen table, perhaps 😁)

Callistemon21

You don't watch the right programmes Oreo! 😁

Nick Knowles - Big House Clearout
Stacey Solomon - Sort Your Life Out

It's quite horrifying surprising how full of clutter some houses are.

I did put the laundry away, in the airing cupboard en route to drawers and wardrobes.

Don't look at ours btw, I am in the process of decluttering cupboards and there are bags of stuff in bedrooms.

Or, maybe I am watching the right programmes😆since I haven’t watched the two you mention.
It seems weird to me, leaving piles of clean clothes, folded or not on the sofa, not exactly hard to walk upstairs with it after all is it, and put it away in drawers and cupboards.

My daughter and her children lived with us, I suppose I was a bit bossy, told her the children’s clothes all needed ironing and she couldn’t send them out looking like rag bags, but she would just pile it up till they ran out of clothes, then spend her entire day off ironing, and if something more interesting came along, she would put it off for another week.

I stagger my washing but it is stored in the laundry basket until I do it. Usually once through the week and then on Monday. I try to get it dry the same day, iron it if needed and put it away. I no longer iron bedding underwear or tea towels.
I always remember as a young teenager going to a friend's house and something slipped out from under the setee cushion it was her mum's suspender belt with the stockings still attached. There were piles of clothes everywhere. Yet her mum looked more smartly dressed than mine. Who did the ironing? I suspect the father who had been in the forces. My father was better than my mum with forces training.

Palmtree

I wash one load a day. The next day I iron it and put everything away into the wardrobe straightaway. I can always find clean ironed clothes. None of this takes much time to do as it"s only one load at a time. I've always done this even when I had a large family living at home. I just found it much simpler to be organised. I notice though that my adult children don't follow my example. They don't iron unless absolutely necessary just before they go out and always seem to have piles of clothes lying about.too They lead very busy lives but then so did I once. Maybe its a generational thing.

My mother would have had a fit if I had not properly aired the ironing before putting it way . She could not understand people who did this .

You don't watch the right programmes Oreo! 😁

Nick Knowles - Big House Clearout
Stacey Solomon - Sort Your Life Out

It's quite horrifying surprising how full of clutter some houses are.

I did put the laundry away, in the airing cupboard en route to drawers and wardrobes.

Don't look at ours btw, I am in the process of decluttering cupboards and there are bags of stuff in bedrooms.

I do washing little and often and use the airing cupboard.

There is a bar to hang everything on hangers from, and it will dry (from the spin dryer) overnight. Or if laundry has dried on the line outside I hang things in the airing cupboard .. to air 😀

I must admit I hang my washing on clothes horses in the spare room as they await ironing, especially during winter, and are often still there when the next wash day arrives. I've just done some ironing and have thrown the items which don't need ironing on the bed in order to fold and put away.

The spare room is obviously an unholy mess but at least it is out of sight of visitors.

I had a friend who lived like this.
When after the winter the children went back into summer dresses, her daughters dress was still in a pile in the laundry from the summer before.

I am amazed how many people get away without ironing their clothes. The only things I do not iron are sheets(Tumbled Dried) Underwear ditto and towels. No wonder so many people look like unmade beds when they go out. My ironing has to be done and put away, I do not mind doing it nowadays as I put ghost stories on my PC and iron away.

Have never come across this, OP in anybody’s house.Why on earth do they do it? Why would anyone want laundry piled on the sofa?Have you asked them?

Ooh I love ironing, and I love ironed clothes...
I would never do anything without permission, but I am happy to do other peoples if I am staying- it's often very popular with my hosts.
My son is the ironing person in his household and that makes me proud - no gender stereotypes in that house!

Daily wash, dry, fold, put away. If it needs ironing (nothing much does) iron as needed. Church shirts are ironed at the morning.

Shirts are hung from dryer buzzer, less wrinkles.

I'm off - there's a pile of clean jumpers on the kitchen table which I must put away 😁👘👚👕🧥👖