<p>I’m in the market for a taller hamper to throw 2 people’s clothing in–currently using a laundry basket and it turns into Mount Laundry by Thursday! So far I haven’t found anything I’m in love with at Target, and the only ones I can find online are 20-25" tall. Looking for something taller and basket-like (not necessarily wicker, but open to that). Anyone have any suggestions?</p>
<p>No suggestion on the hamper, but a laundry suggestion. I learned a habit from the Flylady site to do a few loads during the week to avoid “Mount Washmore” piling up. This only works if you have a washer/dryer in your house or apartment, of course. I usually toss something in before work (might be whites, darks, a load of sheets, or towels). I run the dryer after dinner and fold – since the load isn’t too big, it only takes a few minutes. </p>
<p>But if you don’t have access to a washer so easily, I hope someone has a good suggestion for you!</p>
<p>Sam’s Club has a slim wicker type waste can for patio use that might work. Brown wicker-look, small foot print, hinged lid.</p>
<p>I found a nice assortment recently at TJ Maxx/Home Goods.
Like my new round wicker hamper with handles cut into the sides, cotton removable liner and a nice FLAT detachable lid.</p>
<p>I got a tall, narrow plastic sterelite type basket from Lowes for a few bucks a while back. We use three of them arranged next to each other for the different types of wash we generally do.</p>
<p>The Container Store has several good choices. Another option is to have two baskets-one for dark clothes and the other for lights/whites. Using two baskets makes it easier to throw in a load midweek.</p>
<p>Found this on linen’s and things website:
Oriental Furniture JH09-130 Natural Fiber Laundry Hamper
Finish: Black,
Dimensions: Width: 12" - Height: 28"
Laundry Hamper Material: Wood,
Laundry Hamper Type: Hamper,
Laundry Hamper Height: 25 in to 30 in,
Laundry Hamper Width: 10 in to 15 in,
Main Color/Finish: Black,
Main Color/Finish: Brown,
Main Color/Finish: Dark Brown,
Main Color/Finish: White,
Main Color/Finish: Medium Brown
Simple, conveniently sized and proportioned rectangular basket, from a distinctive collection of remarkably strong, light weight, spun plant fiber furnishings. The light weight wood frames are made structurally strong and durable by the tight, cross weave pattern of the design, creating inexpensive, lightweight, and subtly appealing furniture and decor. Ships from Massachusetts warehouse.
Strong, light weight, natural plant fiber cord
Great size and shape
Interwoven design with ?" wood dowels
Removable fabric liner as shown</p>
<p>71.00</p>
<p>I figured out a few years ago that it was much easier to just do everyone’s laundry separately. Everyone has their own baskets and I do at least one load of laundry at least every other day. Much easier when I can bring D’s basket up to her room and know everything in it is hers. Same with other family members. If I had more time I would have continued to mix everyones laundry, but I don’t. And to answer your question, I like the tall plastic baskets available at most discount stores.</p>
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You have your wet clothes sitting in the washer for 7+ hours?</p>
<p>^^ Sure, why not? I do the same thing.</p>
<p>Interesting…</p>
<p>The majority of my clothes are delicates so I never wash them that way. Leaving them over many hours in water wouldn’t keep them in good condition. I doubt it’d be good for the machine, either.</p>
<p>OP, I have a laundry station in the laundry room that looks like this–> [Laundry</a> Station - Laundry Sorter & Garment Rack | Organize.com](<a href=“http://www.organize.com/delheavlauns.html?gclid=CLLr-9S5g7gCFcqDQgodpHYAGA]Laundry”>http://www.organize.com/delheavlauns.html?gclid=CLLr-9S5g7gCFcqDQgodpHYAGA)
I forgot where I bought it. Maybe, Bed, Bath and Beyond, Target, Costco or Home Depot. One bag is for whites/light color, another bag for dark clothes cold wash, dark clothes warm wash. My kids have their own laundry baskets and they are supposed to sort their laundry out in the laundry station if they want their clothes washed.</p>
<p>No suggestion for the OP, just a comment about Mount Washmore and delicates: I usually throw a load into the washer right before I start making breakfast, so by the time we finsh eating, I have a basket of wet, clean delicates to hang to dry.</p>
<p>Many machines nowadays offer a delay start option. I’ve used it a few times to have clothes start washing around 4:30, so they’re about done by the time I get home.</p>
<p>I always use the throw in a load at 7am so it’s done when I get home at 3 method.
I won’t run the dryer unless I’m home though.
I know people who do…but I also know of lint fires as well.</p>
<p>I like to do laundry when someone is home, as we have had more than our share of overflowing washing machines (some idiot left something in the sink). I also like to be home when drying, so I can pull things out as soon as things dry so wrinkles don’t get set into the clothing and ruin it. Like to place things right from washer to dryer, so try to do when I have a least a two-hour window when I know I’ll be around to tend as needed.</p>
<p>With just H & me, we don’t get much laundry pile up. We have an old sterilite or similar hamper in the kids’ bathroom. It has ventilation holes and also is cracked but still holds up fine. Our bathroom has a miniscule laundry basket that fits nicely under the sink in a cupboard. When it gets full, it’s time to wash. Generally we wash once or twice a week. The kids can wash their own laundry unless I’m feeling in the mood to help them out, which they do if they are needing/wanting a particular garment that is in the laundry.</p>
<p>We have SO much laundry, I almost dread having kids. It’s just the two of us in the house but we both work out twice a day… so two sets of work clothes, four sets of workout clothes, and frequently two sets of casual clothes PER DAY. </p>
<p>I am HIGHLY allergic to mold and don’t like to let my clothes sit in the washer for more than an hour or so or they start to smell musty to me, so the only way I can stay on top of it is to throw a load in when I first wake up, to be thrown in the dryer before I leave. If something is abhorrently wrinkled when I get home from work I’ll rerun it through the dryer, but it’s mostly just t shirts and workout clothes that go in our dryer-- the rest we line dry. I line dry almost all my clothes on a garment rack in my laundry room. I make fiance steam those clothes if they get wrinkled, but most of our clothes don’t wrinkle anyway.</p>
<p>Our hamper looks ridiculous because it’s supposed to have a lid, but for some reason my fiance loves to leave his clothes in a heap on top of the lid instead of putting them IN the hamper, and it made me mad so I hid the lid behind the dresser. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the suggestions guys! Part of my issue is that I don’t want to leave my clothes in a sometimes smelly frontloader for 10+ hours (I leave for work at 6:30 and come back around 5). BF works all day and then changes when he gets home, and I often do as well if I’m in constricting clothes, so we have 4 outfits a day ending up in there…Mount Laundmore gets pretty epic. I don’t have a laundry room (live in a 1 bedroom apartment so it takes over a corner of the walk in closet</p>
<p>I don’t have anything to add…just had to pop in to see the ongoing “HAMPER” discussions…haha. Of course, I have cool “dream” laundry rooms pinned on pinterest.</p>
<p>Does mold actually accumulate in 6-8 hours? And wouldn’t the prolonged intense heat of the dryer kill any that did? IDK, I’ve been doing this delayed-drying routine for 20 years, and have yet to detect one spot of mold on my clothes.</p>