Never putting laundry away

I'm very much with you AG59. I like tidy. However, we all live differently and I watch with dismay what goes on in GC home but obviously I say or do nothing about it. Their house their rules.

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.

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!.

I had my granddaughter living here, I would wash and iron her laundry and put it on a cupboard outside her room, and there it would stay, she would just root through it to find what she wanted.

I iron, fold, whatever, soon after laundry is dried. I don't have an ironing basket.
When I was young with children however, my ironing basket would be full to the brim and ironed when I could make time. But we never had clothes sitting around.

I'm not sure that clothes are ironed nowadays!

I could never live like that either. At this time of year I dry my clothes on an airer and in the morning finish those items that need it either in the tumble dryer (towels) or on the radiators. We had a surprise male visitor the other day and I said to Mr R that I was so pleased that, luckily, it hadn't been a day when I had my knickers drying on the radiator!

A friend’s dog once brought to a visitor a pair of knickers from the washing basket.

No kitty I very rarely iron these days. Only cotton clothes in the summer and my son bought me a very neat ironing board that sits on the side when needed in the kitchen.

I must say my AC tidy the washing away.

In our home its something that has improved with age and time when children were living at home and I worked many more hours there was usually an ironing basket piled high (but never dumped around the house) so much so my mum and dad would visit and clear the lot.
Nowadays usually washed dried and ironed within a day or two and put away. Now I often help my kids if they get a pile of laundry.
Ironing depends on fabric but prefer neatly pressed outer clothing.

I always fold/hang clothes and put them away after they’ve been washed. DD and SiL wash clothes then they placed on the spare bed until there’s a mountain of them. When I’m due to visit they are moved off the bed onto a sheet that’s placed up the corner in their bedroom and I spend the next day or two folding it all and putting it away! Fortunately I don’t have to fold and put them away before I make the bed!

This really reminds me of younger days when 3 generations lived together. My grandmother and I were both ‘neat freaks’ and my mother was untidy. Conversely she was very clean. You would never find a speck of dust, carpets were vacuumed at least twice a day, windows glittered and she had the whitest washing I have seen before or since. The downside (as far as we were concerned) was that her immaculate ironing was to be found in piles on the nearest free surface to her ironing board. If kitchen items were out away it was not necessarily in the right cupboard and the labels were never to the front and her Mail to be actioned was reminiscent of the tower of Pisa. My grandfather and father were both very tidy men. I have since wondered whether this was some sort of rebellion, or maybe we were the ones with the problem.

My children have inherited the neat gene, my grandchildren not so much!

I like ironing and consider being left alone to get on with it once a week one of life’s treats. People think me strange.

You only have to read the decluttering threads on here to realise that degrees of tidiness vary greatly. I never had a large pile of ironing but I am not tidy. I think I quickly realised that most clothes don’t need ironing if they are hung up properly to dry.

Wash it,hang it up/ out to dry depending on weather.
Put away in wardrobe on hangers/ folded in drawers,ironed if and when required.

Unfortunately cotton clothing needs ironing in the summer but my small flat it is difficult to find somewhere with plug nearby to iron.

I couldn’t cope!
I would have to sort it out😬

Would drive me nuts!

My two are very different. One is very tidy, irons and folds everything and her wardrobes and draws are perfectly aligned, matching hangers, etc.

The other not so much, but she has 4 laundry baskets- one for her, one for OH and one for the kids. Things get taken out of dryer, folded and put in respective baskets, and each takes their own to their room and put in draws and on hangers. GS uses the hanging steam 'iron' for his suits.

Anything awaiting ironing is in the laundry basket. Anything not needing ironing is folded and put away. Anything waiting to be washed is in the linen bin. I can’t imagine living with heaps of laundry, clean or dirty, around the place.

I loathed it when my mother and father came and tidied/ironed my laundry.
Just saying

Very much think as you do. In fact being neat and tidy has helped my depression and anxiety over the years as there was order in my life. Also, I was naturally very neat as a child and hated my clothes to be crumpled. My DD is the exact opposite and lives out of plastic storage boxes despite having a lovely house and loads of clothes. Hey! Ho!

I fold and put away clothes once they are dry. Don't iron though!

My OH's mother was a tough cookie. She just had to be, for all sorts of reasons. But I am so thankful she taught her sons to iron, and do basic repairs like replacing buttons, etc.

I dry shirts, etc, on hangers- then do my ironing, and OH does his. Much to the amazement of friends and neighbours

I have a fairly relaxed attitude towards housework, but even I don't like piles of laundry around. I hate ironing but do the patting and folding thing and then put it all away in the appropriate cupboards. But we are all different. It's hard when others are more casual about such things, but we have to mostly just bite our tongue I think.

I used to have an aunt like that of OP. You have to move clothes in the living room to find a place to sit down. I never minded.

I cant remember the last time I ironed! Waste of time.

I do have a heap of clothese thrown on a chair in my bedroom where no one can see them. I never bother to hang them up as they are only kaftans for lounging around the house.

There was a thread on mumsnet from someone who was expecting an inspection by the landlord's agent. The advice was to put all the launry away, wash the dishes, and make the bed. I never did any of these things when I was a tenant. You took the place as you found it. The agent was reminded that she had come to inspect the fabric of the building and not my housekeeping.