My clients are my sample population, and so I pay attention to trends that emerge amongst them. When, for instance, every one of them seems to be having great difficulty saying no to opportunities and people in their lives, I conjecture that this is a thing for people and write a post like this one. And when all of them at once are desperately in need of laundry baskets, I write a post like this one.

Yep, nowadays everyone seems confounded by what vessel to use in order to transport clean, folded clothes from the laundry room to their respective homes and rightful owners. By now they own laundry hampers, but a clean laundry basket is, for many, a thing entirely different.

For dirty clothes, a tall hamper of any shape works dreamily. But clean, folded clothes are flatter, and more compact. They get lost in a tall hamper. There are few things more demoralizing than taking the time to beautifully fold one’s laundry, only to have it get unfolded during transport from dryer to dresser.

No, for clean clothes, it really, ideally, needs to be a square or rectangular, shallow-ish basket. One that will lend itself well to supporting the straight sides of a folded item.

1. woven nylon laundry basket

2. Hay hamper

3. Tosca laundry hamper

4. Family basket

5. Heather crunch bin

6. Bamboo tote

7. White Montauk basket

8. Blue stripes rattan basket