its actually kind of a pain ...

Hm depends, my larger households have to do multiple loads a week but my single sim has one laundry day and only one hamper, so that seemed alright to me. Do you have your sims shower or change clothes a lot? Cause that would definitely up the frequency a lot. Or do you play large families?

I discovered that my sim, living in a family of 7 sims and 1 pet, can add the contents of four hampers to the washer before starting it. Does take a little time having them go back and forth, though. But it means I can get away with not having them do laundry every day.

"kturner1015;d-933742" wrote:
Ok so first I ran into the whole "you dont have a washer on your lot" bug because there was a shelf over the washer. so i fixed that.
Now I'm noticing clean clothes go into the hamper, and I know this because when I click on a full hamper I dont have the option to wash the clothes because "these clothes are already clean." They'll even be sparkling in the hamper, that's how clean they are.
But does anyone else sorta feel like laundry is being done CONSTANTLY? I need multiple hampers in the house and one of my household's sims is literally constantly doing laundry. I tried to reduce the amount of hampers in the house to fix this but apparently I need at least 3 on my lot so clothes don't fall on the floor.

Is there some sort of trick to making this a little more efficient? Oh and also: my washer and dryer break seemingly all the time. Is that a bug?

I reported the "clean clothes" bug in another thread a few days ago. They're looking into it since other simmers are also reporting the same thing. In my current game it's hit and miss. I think a lot of it has to do with both pristine clothes getting into the hamper and once in awhile clothes that were just cleaned end up in there. Strangely enough, this does not happen with every load so I wonder why it's happening myself.

They're also looking into why we can't use the machines whenever there's items on the wall above them. I'm guessing a patch to fix both will be forthcoming soon.

As for making things efficient? The only thing I can think of is to do what I've seen in a lot of two and three-story homes and condos that are being built. It's a common thing to see the laundry room on the same floor as the bedrooms. I've got a three-story condo build I'm playing with, and luckily there's only two sims and a cat and laundry is done every third day. Their bedroom is on the top floor, and the laundry room is on the ground floor.

For the clean clothes in a hamper only fix is to delete the hamper and place another one until it gets fixed.

"Ravager619;c-16276799" wrote:

"kturner1015;d-933742" wrote:
Ok so first I ran into the whole "you dont have a washer on your lot" bug because there was a shelf over the washer. so i fixed that.
Now I'm noticing clean clothes go into the hamper, and I know this because when I click on a full hamper I dont have the option to wash the clothes because "these clothes are already clean." They'll even be sparkling in the hamper, that's how clean they are.
But does anyone else sorta feel like laundry is being done CONSTANTLY? I need multiple hampers in the house and one of my household's sims is literally constantly doing laundry. I tried to reduce the amount of hampers in the house to fix this but apparently I need at least 3 on my lot so clothes don't fall on the floor.

Is there some sort of trick to making this a little more efficient? Oh and also: my washer and dryer break seemingly all the time. Is that a bug?

I reported the "clean clothes" bug in another thread a few days ago. They're looking into it since other simmers are also reporting the same thing. In my current game it's hit and miss. I think a lot of it has to do with both pristine clothes getting into the hamper and once in awhile clothes that were just cleaned end up in there. Strangely enough, this does not happen with every load so I wonder why it's happening myself.

They're also looking into why we can't use the machines whenever there's items on the wall above them. I'm guessing a patch to fix both will be forthcoming soon.

As for making things efficient? The only thing I can think of is to do what I've seen in a lot of two and three-story homes and condos that are being built. It's a common thing to see the laundry room on the same floor as the bedrooms. I've got a three-story condo build I'm playing with, and luckily there's only two sims and a cat and laundry is done every third day. Their bedroom is on the top floor, and the laundry room is on the ground floor.

Is it specific to hamper types? There are 3 I believe that are interactive. Maybe it's only one hamper that is buggy.

"catloverplayer;c-16276821" wrote:
Is it specific to hamper types? There are 3 I believe that are interactive. Maybe it's only one hamper that is buggy.

I've had it happen with the wicker and the plastic ones. Haven't tried the fabric one yet but I may later tonight.

Well we do know it isn't mod or cc related cause people like me are having this issue and I don't have any cc or mods. It's disappointing too.

My current save is no longer having this issue, but I think it has to do more with me changing my lot. I'm the type of simmer where I'll use a separate game only to remodel or build homes. I used that save to do some modifications to my latest build, then moved my sims into it in my current game. Everything seems to be working normally now. I'm using one hamper, the wicker one, since it goes best with the furniture from the Cats & Dogs EP.

It has me thinking... maybe a workaround is to move your sims out of the home and then move them back in to reset everything?

I don't want to derail this thread, but I noticed something interesting tonight that I didn't before. Has anyone noticed that one of the white or off white colors for the washer and dryers have coin slots? Are those functional?

Yes it's a lot of laundry. One Sim can change like 4x a day (go swimming, taking a shower, get dressed in the morning, get PJs at night) so it really adds up. I really wish the hampers were bigger.

When people were begging for laundry I said this would happen. Everyone complained about how annoying laundry got in Sims 3 and ended up deleting their washer/dryers......now, shocker, its happening in Sims 4 too. There were so many other ideas (such as the living off the land that came in second place) that would have expanded the gameplay so much more and would not have been annoying, but oh well......

You know what they say "people who keep repeating the same things over and over expecting different results........"

It was annoying in Sims 3 and its even more annoying now because its a more complicated system. I do love the objects however, those were nice, but we would have gotten those with the other theme as well anyway. Laundry is so beyond pointless, especially since you can't even have a functioning laundromat where sims go to do laundry (you can make one, but only your sim will do laudry there which is beyond redundent).