its actually kind of a pain ...

"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.