The Laundry Basket

I have to laugh as I think back to a little incident that my DH and I had several months after we were married. There are so many things one learns about each other once you live with them everyday. The laundry basket was one of those deals that showed both of us how we think through and do things differently. Here is the laundry basket that my DH had before we were married.

It's not the biggest basket but it works to hold laundry. It also became a frustration to both my DH and I though neither one of us knew it until a much later conversation. It only seemed to take three days worth of clothes before it reached the top, hence by the end of the week it was beyond the top.

DH's frustration: My wife doesn't ever seem to do laundry. That laundry basket is never empty or maybe one day a week it is. I don't quite understand way she would allow it to build up so much. Maybe taking care of the house is more work for her than I thought!

My frustration: The laundry basket fills up so fast and I don't want to be doing laundry every three days. There may come a point in time where that is the case but right now I would rather do all the laundry on one day of the week and be done with it. Plus I don't like that our laundry is on display for all who uses the bathroom to see.

So this kept up for sometime before we had a conversation and both came to realize that yes I did do laundry and yes the basket fills up to fast and maybe we should be on the look out for a bigger basket!

Well about a month later we found a basket that we both thought would work. I didn't realize until buying it that it says storage on it but my DH reminded me that we are storing our dirty clothes in it. Good point!

We are both very happy with the new laundry basket that 1) Is bigger then our orignal laundry basket, 2) Has a lid, 3) Is a perfect size to fit where our old laundry basket it was, and 4) Has taken out the frustration of laundry piling up. Yes, laundry still gets done and I try and get it all done in one day but now its not so much of an eyesore or issue!

You tell me what one you think is better! There's quite a difference!