

We then ranked the best in 10 categories, from best basket for a dorm to best budget hamper, and we chose one as the best overall laundry basket. To help you find the right container for your laundry, we tested 30 laundry baskets and hampers over a two-week period to see how they performed with big loads and small, how sturdy and durable they were, and their overall value versus their price tags. She and her husband actually keep two baskets in their closet, one for lights and the other for darks, “so that helps me with the sorting,” she explains.

In fact, Blakey keeps a laundry basket in each child’s bedroom (and she recommends her clients do the same), so that when the kids undress at the end of the day, clothes go straight into the basket rather than the floor.

The basket helps create a more succinct system to give you back more time.” “Laundry can cause a lot of frustration … But having a basket or hamper gives those socks and other clothes a physical boundary, a place for them to live until laundry day. “A laundry basket is a physical boundary that can create more harmony in a household,” says Holly Blakey, owner of Breathing Room Home, a home organizing and styling company in the San Francisco Bay area. They can actually be part of a system that makes wash day easier, your laundry room more organized, and life a little less stressful. As humble as laundry baskets and hampers can be, these clothes collectors actually do more than just hold garments, linens, and bedding ready for the washing machine.
