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Pinikki36
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Apr 25, 2014

Laundry

We're about to become full-timers in about 1.5 months. (!!!) Just wondering what others store their dirty laundry in, and then what do you use to get your laundry to the laundry facility on-site? Like a rolling cart of some sort? I won't always have a vehicle to use, and I won't want to carry 4 people's worth of dirty laundry in multiple trips. Just looking for suggestions. TIA!

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  • We use plastic garbage bags with ties as well as pillow cases to fill for our dirty laundry. We are in a truck camper and at most have 2 bags full of laundry to wash.
  • the pop up mesh hampers can be found at many dollar stores. We use those and I typically do a load when one is full - about once every 5 days or so. If I have to wait longer or am doing sheets/towels, I take the truck. The hampers stay at the end of the bed when stationary and in the shower when moving.
  • Why are you the only one carrying all the laundry to the laundry facilities?

    We used two foldup laundry bags....as there was just 2 of us.

    Used the facilities at campground (if they had them) otherwise down to local laundry in town.
  • We use the white plastic laundry hampers. Usually put'em in the truck & drive to laundromat. We use 2 of these which fit nicely in our 5th wheel closet. We didn't want the on board W/D due to the constant hassling with doing laundry, slow drying time, laundry smells, etc. & would have to do it almost every day or two. Both of us help & We can do two weeks worth of laundry in about 2 hours at the laundromat; then, put it away and don't have to mess with it again for two weeks.
  • pop up mesh hamper, stored in shower stall. we use laundry-mats in towns, so we use the car to haul it. you could use a portable grocery cart or dolly..get one with big wheels if you can find one.
  • On board washer and dryer...saves trips, time and quarters.

    When I do use the campground laundry we have a fold up large shopping basket cart. Some of the higher end RV parks have laundry carts you can use to transport to and from your RV.
  • We also used the pop up mesh hampers. We always used the car to take the hampers to the laundromat so did not have your problem with that issue.

    One suggestion is a fold up luggage cart/dolly. It folds up flat for easy storage and could easily handle a mesh hamper. I think we got ours at a Walmart.

    After we bought a house in CO and had all of our stuff moved there from 11 years of storage in NH and staged in the shop, my wife used it to move boxes from the shop to the house for unpacking. It has held up fine for that duty so should work great for laundry.
  • We had a laundry hamper built into the fiver, as well as our own w/d
  • pop up laundry mesh hampers. We bought ours from Walmart. They don't last a long time so we just replace them. We have 2 of them. We leave one open until we do the laundry, then we use the 2 to sort. With only 2 of us we can easily take our laundry, but I have seen people use the folding grocery carts to take theirs to the laundry.