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  Yeah we have four baskets and two are designated clean. Growing up we just had one, but clothes went straight from the dryer on to my parents bed in a pile to fold
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  I have a hamper for dirties, clean clothes get piled and carried as is, no basket needed and no empty basket needing storing >
  
  Meanwhile, the cat is in the kitchen, rubbing its ass on the cutting board >
  
  This made me actually laugh out loud >
  
  Cross contamination? Are you eating your clothes raw? That’d be like saying folding your clothes on the couch is cross contamination because you sat on the couch wearing clothes (assuming you’re not a nudist at home). It isn’t raw chicken getting on your celery stick. >
  
  My husband and I were just joking about washing our socks in the same load. We wonder if mine keep running off with his and that's why we keep having incomplete pairs. >
  
  I don't understand this. In 15+ years of doing my own washing, I've never lost a sock. How do you do that? >
  
  If we knew what happened to them, they wouldn't be lost >
  
  The most likely answer is they're getting flushed out of the washer with the water. Socks are usually small enough that they can slip under an agitator, in older models, and simply get sent to the sewer.
  Occasionally, you'll find someone's washing machine is on the fritz, and when they open it up they'll find all their missing socks, but not in any condition anyone would want. >
  
  I had times when the sock is hiding at the top of the washer, stuck by the water.
  If I didn't bend down and look, it would have ended up in someone else's pile (community laundry) >
  
  My laundry stays in a laundry bag. Laundry bag gets washed with the clothes each time. >
  
  Same >
  
  Laundry basket for dirties, put clean ones in drawers or hangers. Problem solved. >
  
  Or use two different laundry baskets. They stack anyway. >
  
  How dirty are your clothes? I’ve never had an issue with this >
  
  Underwear with period blood in it says hi. >
  
  Should maybe dump those directly in the washer. Usually when I have something that is unusually stained, I pre-wash them and put them in the washer waiting for the next wash. >
  
  This is great if you have constant access to a washer. >
  
  No cross contamination here. 2 separate hampers 1 for white, 1 colors. Bring dirty clothes in hampers to the washing machine, pickup clean dry clothes from the drier in the laundry basket >
  
  My dirty little secret is that I don't separate clothes by color. >
  
  Wash bedding and towels on 60°C+ and never separate whites from colours and have had no dye bleed. >
  
  Clothes made now with colours that bleed usually say so on the tag. I have a few items that say, "To get this cool colour we use a process that might result in the dye bleeding, so wash this separately." >
  
  Is it not common to have separate baskets for clean and dirty laundry? That's how it's always been at my house >
  
  I've never heard of this.  TIL at 48 yrs old that people have separate baskets for dirty clothes and clean clothes. >
  
  I'm trying to picture how filthy and stinky everyone's clothes are that this is even a problem. We have plastic laundry baskets, the worst I've seen is a few crumbs or cat hairs in them after putting laundry in the wash. Which I wipe out with a wet cloth before putting clean clothes back in.
  I guess if I'm swimming in my clothes in a muddy swamp I put them directly into the wash without having them sit in a basket for a week. This is the only scenario I've come up with that they all need separate baskets for. >
  
  Apparently I’m the oddball… one basket (whites and colors) into the washer.. then the dryer, and back into the basket.  Compared to leaving clothes in the washer for a few days, this is a very minor sin… >
  
  I get it. It appears we are in the minority but whatever.