Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think the secret with a washing basket for one is to get the right sized laundry basket and lob stuff in it - when it's full it's a machine-full, so you do it; then the basket's empty, so it's at the machine and available to empty the wet washing into.

Have to get the right size though so that system works.

I like a series of washing baskets to divide into washes as we go.....unfortunately this takes up a lot of room. In reality what happens is stuff gets thrown down the back stairs into a horrific heap of dirty Laundry where I divide into many heaps across the floor which never quite go......:mad:

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Fab stuff in the marketplace. When I went, in 2007, Ikea was cheap, but the prices have gone up a lot. I bought two brilliant toy boxes (also act as seats for kids) - £7 each; now they're £11! http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20078031/

I also picked up two plates at 19p each and a couple of good sized cereal bowls for the same price. At the time I bought cheap, on the basis that I could walk away and leave them when I moved out..... they were perfectly good items! They are now 40p http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00133123/ http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80133124/ - if I were buying again I'd get some of those.

I always have to go everywhere twice. Once to get my bearings ..... then I know what they've got and can think about what I want. I can't be going/buying on one day as I am too unsure/indecisive to make decisions about buying stuff.

I was very impressed by Wilkinsons - I got a cheery washing up bowl for just over £1 and a dish drainer - and a pyrex measuring jug for about £1 and two small cereal bowls for about 65p.

They sell loads of stuff that doesn't make it into the catalogue. Usually cheaper.

PasturesNew

Oh - my top tip is to buy 2-3 of those Ikea blue shopping bags.

I've used mine so far for:
• Filling with odds/sods to get them to the car easily
• Loading up the recycling to take to the recycling place
• Lobbing "everything else/everything I might need or could take" when I go away. I pack a case, then the Ikea bag's for: camera, toiletries, slippers, trainers, kagoul, hat, bath sheet ....

Invaluable. Wish I had 2.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think the secret with a washing basket for one is to get the right sized laundry basket and lob stuff in it - when it's full it's a machine-full, so you do it; then the basket's empty, so it's at the machine and available to empty the wet washing into.

Have to get the right size though so that system works.

No, no, no!

You have to separate your whites from your coloureds and split your coloureds into dark colours that run and those that don't. Even if you use colour catchers.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh - my top tip is to buy 2-3 of those Ikea blue shopping bags.

I've used mine so far for:
• Filling with odds/sods to get them to the car easily
• Loading up the recycling to take to the recycling place
• Lobbing "everything else/everything I might need or could take" when I go away. I pack a case, then the Ikea bag's for: camera, toiletries, slippers, trainers, kagoul, hat, bath sheet ....

Invaluable. Wish I had 2.

I might have a spare you can have. I'll have a look but you'll have to remind me.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I like a series of washing baskets to divide into washes as we go.....unfortunately this takes up a lot of room. In reality what happens is stuff gets thrown down the back stairs into a horrific heap of dirty Laundry where I divide into many heaps across the floor which never quite go......:mad:

Years ago I used to have a swing top bin system. In my built in cupboard I had a big swing top bin for clothes - and a tiny one for white underwear. As underwear was my only whites it only needed a small bin.

Now I've changed and developed my system and I've bought some white items specially to be able to make up a whites load (I used to wash whites by hand as they were so small). So I've got 2 white sheets and a white bath sheet that I'll use when I want to do a whites wash.

Right now I've got a pile of clothes on the floor that's the laundry basket equivalent. I take clothes off - what's to be worn again I chuck over the airer; what's for washing gets dropped on the floor. When the floor pile looks big enough to make up a load I do the washing

And, of course, that's all here/in this room.... so just 3' from where I am sitting.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I might have a spare you can have. I'll have a look but you'll have to remind me.

It's not important - and my Aspie side requires that I buy a new one and revel in the newness of it and the folds the manufacturing/folding process put in place

And .... I don't need a 2nd one, it's just a bit of frippery really.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Years ago I used to have a swing top bin system. In my built in cupboard I had a big swing top bin for clothes - and a tiny one for white underwear. As underwear was my only whites it only needed a small bin.

Now I've changed and developed my system and I've bought some white items specially to be able to make up a whites load (I used to wash whites by hand as they were so small). So I've got 2 white sheets and a white bath sheet that I'll use when I want to do a whites wash.

Right now I've got a pile of clothes on the floor that's the laundry basket equivalent. I take clothes off - what's to be worn again I chuck over the airer; what's for washing gets dropped on the floor. When the floor pile looks big enough to make up a load I do the washing

And, of course, that's all here/in this room.... so just 3' from where I am sitting.

I have to do a was to morrow. Or consider taking a time from silver car's son soon.

I also have to buy moisturiser tomorrow. And something else. Cannot remember what.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

No, no, no!

You have to separate your whites from your coloureds and split your coloureds into dark colours that run and those that don't. Even if you use colour catchers.

I rarely have whites.

Nothing of mine runs - it's all far too old to run. Most of my clothes are 5-15 years old so stopped running about 10 years ago.

... er, colour catchers? I just lob stuff in and turn the machine on. My washing/clothes aren't posh enough for colour catchers.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

And something else. Cannot remember what.

A big fat pie