I am just wondering what you all are doing with your dirty laundry. Is there an easier way???? I am using an old laundry bag and we put it under our table or on the other bed when we're alone.... But, it fills up quick and takes up space Any storage ideas? Mods? Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks, Kathy
just the two of us and one big dog in a 2002 westlake. We put or clothes in a plastic bag until we do it if we are gone longer than a week.
JIm
I have a pop up hamper that will keep a few days worth of laundry in. It will fit in the corner of the bathroom. As the clean clothes supply goes down I empty one bag into another and use the empty bag(s) to put dirty clothes in. If we go longer than a week we usually do laundry one day on the trip. Usually the laundry day is a rainy day.:)
Isn't that what garbage bags are for ??
We use a laundry bag which we usually store in the TV. DW is pretty fanatical about this. She's doing laundry fairly frequently, so there's usually not much in the laundry bag at any given time.
I use a net laundry bag that I keep in the front storage compartment. Our trailer has the pass-through access door and we just slide open the door and put our clothes into the bag. When it's full, we push it aside and start on a pop-up hamper in the same place. That way once we get home, I just have the kids carry the bags to the laundry room. After I finish laundry, the net bag and pop-up hamper get stored with our trailer towels and sheets so everything's together for the next trip.
We keep a big plactic trash bag in the back of our truck, after our showers any dirty clothes go in there and the towels go on the line to dry. If it is at a place that does not allow clothes lines ...then we hang them on the awning:):)
Quote from: ForestCreatureIsn't that what garbage bags are for ??
Gee Marcy you have disposable clothing? We can't afford to throw our clothes away.:p
Well there was that one time...
We keep a laundry basket under a dinnette seat fir iur dirty clothes, it fits perfectly! It can hold a week's worth of dirty clothes for the three of us.
Hope this helps!
Tena
Just wash them out daily and hang them to dry while you sleep!
*just kidding!!*
Seriously, though, what if we treated our dishes like we treat our laundry - "Where do you put your dirty dishes until you get home?" Ha!
I have been known to wear old clothes camping and throw them out at the end.
I pack plastic grocery-type bags in with the clothes (one for dark, one for light). Everyone has a drawer (either built in or one of the plastic things); as things get dirty, everyone transfers from the clean into the plastic bags. Then all the plastic bags are transferred into the front trunk or in the portable drawers, already sorted for washing.
Dirty towels/sheets are folded and stacked in the front trunk and then transferred to the laundry room.
Pam
Yer campin........just wear the same clothes.......problem solved. :D
Quote from: waveryYer campin........just wear the same clothes.......problem solved. :D
Shower with your clothes on. Cleans them once a week.
Quote from: dthurkShower with your clothes on. Cleans them once a week.
YA!!!!! now that's real campin' "WHOO-WHOO-WHOO'' :J
Showers, who takes showers when they are camping!
Quote from: tlhdocShowers, who takes showers when they are camping!
I'll have to remember that at the rally. I'll sit on the other side of the campfire.
I use a large laundry bag. I put the clean clothes in it to get to the camper, empty them into the appropriate bin or drawer, then put the laundry bag into a compartment in the camper that held the sleeping bags when the PU was closed. Out of sight, contained & ready to go.
Sharon
I bring 4 large tupperware containers which go in the TV on the way -
2 have clothing - one my husband and I, the other our 3 kids.
We are a family of five so we make a lot of clothes. I love these hotter months, the boys just were trunks all day long!
One tupperware has pantry items, which get unloaded into the dinette seat and become our first laundry container.
The 4th is a catch all container - I just place whatever in there...towels sometimes, blankets sometimes, jackets in the winter... and it also becomes a container for the porch area.
So I've unpacked - now I have two empty containers I place outside the door and stack them under our awning or AAR, one starts the old laundry, the other misc. items we keep outside, helmets, life jackets, RC cars, etc.
We usually only fill one while camping, then during pack up all the other laundry - towels, sweatshirts, jackets get put in there. I love it...good system for us.
My family of four usually does the "stuff everything dirty in the big old dufflebag 'till be get back home" trick!
However, last year, during an extended vacation to the Grand Canyon and surroundings, my clever DW discovered something! She found out that the KOA in Flagstaff where we were staying at actually had, gasp, a laundry room! For a measly few quarters she was able to cleans and refresh the putrid stuff in the dufflebag, BEFORE, we made it back home! Just wierd, I know, but I had to share. :p
DW generally made use of the campground laundrlymat. She said it gave her peace and quiet for an hour or so away from us.
:)
She also enjoyed talking to the other people in the laundry room and very often she would find out some interesting things to do in the area.
Someone once told me that you could get by wearing the same underwear for 4 days.
Regular way
Front to back
Inside out
Front to back
Never did try it but it could save on laundry. :)
Quote from: GeneFSomeone once told me that you could get by wearing the same underwear for 4 days.
Regular way
Front to back
Inside out
Front to back
Never did try it but it could save on laundry. :)
HEY!!! Great tip..........I'll bet that we could do the same with out T-shirts & socks. :D
When I was a child, my family camped at the same private campground every year. All of the campers around us were the same each year since you could reserve the same spot year after year. Anyway, (this is where I respond to the topic :p ) one year my parents took us kids to an amusement park for the day. When we were gone our fellow campers saw some trash bags under our camper as the garbage truck was coming down the lane. The ever so helpful neighbors took the trash to the "curb" for us so we would not have to deal with the trash for the other days we were there. When we came back from the amusement park we found that all of our dirty clothes (8 days worth for 5 people) was on its way to the landfill. My mom still talks about the year that all of my brother's underwear was thrown away.
Quote from: junkladyWhen we came back from the amusement park we found that all of our dirty clothes (8 days worth for 5 people) was on its way to the landfill.
The dangers of using a garbage bag for the laundry.
Didn't someone once post here that as they were packing up, they removed all the curtains from their popup, and put them in a garbage bag to take home and clean, but the DH only saw a black garbage bag, anf threy it in the dumpster at the campground!!
We always use a pillow case for the dirty laundry, and ususlly as we are packing up, we need to break out the second pillowcase. Never had a problem mistaking the dirty laundry for garbage.