Don't get me wrong, I love Laundry Day and lobbied heartily for it, but that was when I was only playing 1-2 sims in a household. Now I'm branching out and I have a vampire nest with 3 adults, 1 teen and child twins and the laundry is ridiculous...everyone does laundry. I have 4 hampers and they are always either full or half full all the time. I've thought about putting hampers in bedrooms and baths but then someone would have to zoom all over the house to gather laundry. Anyone with big families, who do laundry, how do you manage? It would be great if sims would gather from all the hampers then put into the washer, but instead, one at a time. :#

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!

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catitude5
7 years ago
This why I didn't buy it. Everything they do is overboard.
Simmerville
Legend
7 years ago
Wouldn't directing kids to put clothes in hamper or machine, be a good way to build responsibility? I don't have the Laundry pack, though, no idea how long it would take or if kids can use the machine at all.
corenren
7 years ago
"Simmerville;c-16906544" wrote:
Wouldn't directing kids to put clothes in hamper or machine, be a good way to build responsibility? I don't have the Laundry pack, though, no idea how long it would take or if kids can use the machine at all.

They can use the machine and it does build responsibility. You just cant use the washer and dryer that are stacked.
GrumpyGlowfish
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"Pamtastic72;c-16906487" wrote:
I put 1-3 hampers in my laundry room and non functioning deco hampers in bedrooms & bathrooms sometimes for atmosphere. That way the laundry generates right near the machines, I just pretend there's a laundry chute and my Sims don't have to walk all over the house collecting. I find 1 hamper per 2 Sims to be a pretty good ratio.

Your advice just saved my day! I totally forgot we had deco hampers.

"Simmerville;c-16906544" wrote:
Wouldn't directing kids to put clothes in hamper or machine, be a good way to build responsibility? I don't have the Laundry pack, though, no idea how long it would take or if kids can use the machine at all.

Children can do laundry entirely on their own as long as a washing machine and a dryer are involved and not stacked, however they cannot use the washtub and the clothesline. I guess it does build responsibility, but that comes pretty much automatically as long as you send them to school every now and then.

Edit: Someone beat me to it!
bshag4lv
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"AfterMidnight;c-16905466" wrote:
I did some scouring for the mod @Stormkeep mentioned (the one where sims gather clothing from all hampers when doing laundry), but unfortunately, I couldn't find it. Looked through LittleMsSam's laundry overhaul and on bienchen's site and came up empty. I did however find this mod by egureh which expands the clothing capacity of the hamper so it won't fill up as fast as it does in the vanilla game. Sounds like it'll help!

That's the one! Thank you for the link!

Edit to say, the mod by egureh is the one I saw...good job!
JanuaryGarnet08
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"GrumpyGlowfish;c-16906585" wrote:
"Pamtastic72;c-16906487" wrote:
I put 1-3 hampers in my laundry room and non functioning deco hampers in bedrooms & bathrooms sometimes for atmosphere. That way the laundry generates right near the machines, I just pretend there's a laundry chute and my Sims don't have to walk all over the house collecting. I find 1 hamper per 2 Sims to be a pretty good ratio.

Your advice just saved my day! I totally forgot we had deco hampers.

Glad to help! ?

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