I'm Drowning, In Laundry!

You could always hire a maid when the laundry needs to be done, just for that day. In my experience maids will do at least a load of laundry.

In my legacy save, my sim became friends with Patchy and never had to do laundry again.
Honestly, Patchy is like a free live-in cleaner, gardener and babysitter. Pretty much essential in a large household.

Lol, totally forgot about the maid, duh. :D


I will try Patchy...forgot about him too. Thanks for the reminders!

I know having multiple hampers keeps my laundry from being too much of an issue, but you will almost always have to keep cycling loads after several sim days. A tip: when placing hampers you can press and hold the ALT key to ignore the grid. Helps in keeping them from taking up too much space, and as long as the arrow is facing outward the sims can still use it.

Newish player (I played before but ages ago). Who is Patchy and how do we become friends? haha!

"SimAlexandria;c-16904171" wrote:
Newish player (I played before but ages ago). Who is Patchy and how do we become friends? haha!

Patchy came with Seasons. He is the scarecrow. You can become friends with him and he will help out around the house and with the garden.

After the first time, I stopped putting the washers and dryers in houses, too much trouble keeping up with laundry.

I don't have Laundry Day, is it worth getting it for a family player? On one hand it adds realism to have to do more laundry with kids in the house, but if it turns into a part time job it's not fun. My experience from Sims 3 was everyone would drop their clothing wherever they changed, even guests changing into party clothes, so hamper in foyer :neutral:

I feel your pain @Bshag4lv, my last generation of my current game had 4 children plus the 2 adults, and laundry had to be done every single day.

How I handled it was, I had 2 hampers in the house, each in one of the bathrooms. In my game the laundry room is just before the kitchen, so I just had someone each morning bring clothes to the washer after taking a shower when they were on the way to breakfast. With 6 sims in the home, every shower got used, so it was never even having them go out of their way. Just a simple matter of shower, grab laundry, drop it in the washing machine, then go eat breakfast. Whoever brought the 2nd hamper is who I had start the washer (you can put multiple hamper loads into a single load of wash). Then the last one out of the house for work would move it to the dryer and start that.

Basically it was laundry day every day, but doing it that way, it was never more than a minute or two extra time seeing as every trip was one where they would have been going past the washer/dryer anyway. And doing it every day made it so neither hamper ever got "full".

Another option if the above scenario doesn't work for you for some reason, is to install mods that make laundry work how you indicated you want it to...which is gathering all of the hampers before going to the washing machine. LittleMsSam's small laundry fixes does that (and more): https://littlemssam.tumblr.com/post/175411944173/small-laundry-overhaul-a-small-overhaul-for-the I don't use the mods at the moment, but have used it just to see how it works and it does what it says very well. The one you'd want is the one that lets them put the laundry into inventory.

One hamper here. Then you just have to ask them to put laundry in the washer and they'll pick it up from the floor too (well, when it doesn't get bugged and they forget what they're supposed to do and drop it on the floor...). The washer seems to have infinite capacity though, so it doesn't matter, I don't even bother washing it unless their clothes start to smell (never happened), my Sims just end up doing it autonomously anyway... then only do I have to bother with drying them too.