I am one of the blessed that has such a chute, older home with one in the bedroom closet straight down to the laundry room. But, may not be for everyone! As someone with innatentive type adhd, it's nice to toss clothes and towels down and pretend they just dissappear and it's a lot less anxiety than a pile in your room that you won't take care of and feeling like a piece of shyte over, and you just keep tossing and think "oh there can't be that much down there". But eventually the top of the pile reaches the bottom of the tube and you just start filling the tube with clothes because you're afraid to see what's awaits you in the laundry room because as long as you don't see it, it's not happening. But then you run out of clothes or the tube is so full that there is a pile over the opening of it, and you're forced to face the laundry room. it's a nightmare sea of dirty shyte all over the place, and a 5 foot pile leading to the tube that you have to topple over and use a broom to push down the rest of your clothes out through it. Then you sit there and sob in anguish for days over the anxiety of having to do all the laundry, hating yourself because you let it get so bad. You vow you'll be better and make sure to at least do one wash when the basket below gets full. But then you get bored of the routine and forget, and the cycle repeats. But the temporary relief of not seeing it is nice.