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Do you chuck clothes on a chair in the corner of your bedroom?

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DollsHouse83 · 24/03/2022 19:55

Random silly first world question but here goes...Does anyone here not have a chair in their bedroom they chuck clothes on before bed?

Am moving to a smaller bedroom with limited space and may not have space for a chair in the new room. I had a rational thought that it won't matter, because when I get undressed at night, my clothes will be either dirty (in which case they go in the laundry basket) or ok to be worn again (in which case they should go back in the wardrobe). The reality is I can't imagine doing this. I'm ok chucking stuff in the laundry but anything that's not yet dirty I always end up chucking over the chair until there's a massive pile.

Is anyone else like this or is my slovenliness beyond the pale?

OP posts:
SquirrelG · 24/03/2022 22:27

I recently moved, and now have a smaller bedroom. It's a bit of a squash - but I managed to get the bedroom chair in!

Bonheurdupasse · 24/03/2022 22:28

Top of the laundry basket here.
Shared with the man who also has floordrobe.

Datsandcogs · 24/03/2022 22:28

I have a chair-drobe and a floor-drobe. In my last house (which was much smaller) I draped the half-worn clothes over the banister!

ididntevennotice · 24/03/2022 22:31

I don't have clothes on when I go to bed. They will have been ditched in favour of PJs long before bedtime. I would just put them in the wash then.

GrandRapids · 24/03/2022 22:34

Ugh yes, there are clothes draped everywhere. Over the end of the bed, on the floor, the chair, drying rack.....looks bloody awful!

deadlanguage · 24/03/2022 22:47

I have a hook on the back of the door and DP has a hook on the airing cupboard door. It’s better because it limits the size the pile can reach! I used to end up with half my wardrobe on the chair.

mamabr · 24/03/2022 22:50

Mine is a stool.. I think that's what you call it anyway, it's probably more stool than chair. But you get my point. I'm guilty of this too

ImInStealthMode · 24/03/2022 22:56

No room for a chair but there's a dressing table, the stool underneath it, and failing that, the floor.

(I do tidy up and put things in the laundry or the wardrobe in the morning though)

ClinkeyMonkey · 24/03/2022 23:00

The Chair of Doom. I think I have one. Haven't seen it for years under the pile of crap.

WildIing · 24/03/2022 23:00

No, and I don’t have a chair in my bedroom for this very reason.

In fact, apart from my bed and two bedside tables (tables, not lockers because those drawers will end up full of random ephemera), I have no other items of furniture in my bedroom at all.

VerityPJohnson · 24/03/2022 23:12

I’ve got a towel rail.

My partner leaves his clothes on a chair..... in the kitchen.

Stravaig · 24/03/2022 23:47

Iron bedstead! Attachment points galore.

Hebeee · 25/03/2022 00:15

Antique chair for me....never been sat on (well, by us, anyway!) and can't be seen most of the time, which is a shame as it's pretty 🙄

DH has a small sofa for the clothes he takes off at night (his wardrobe space is a built in cupboard in the hall, so I don't blame him for not bothering with that). This is usually covered in cushions too as I can never be arsed to put them on the bed.

There's a window seat in our room too, but one of the dogs sleeps there, otherwise I'm sure that would end up full of clothing too!

We do have hooks on the back of the door but these are for bath robes/dressing gowns etc.

Anything that's dirty/due to be washed goes into the basket (in the bathroom) in the morning.

The only time I ever used the floordrobe, I picked up my socks in the morning only to find a huge black spider had crawled inside one 😨

Ladyrattles · 25/03/2022 00:52

In our new house I have a tiny bench with a a cushion so I lay my clothes on top of that. It fits nicely in the little gap between the wardrobe and the door.

In the old house we had exercise equipment in the bedroom, so used to hang clothes on that. One of my daughters used to use hooks on her door as her room was too small for a chair.

timestheyarechanging · 25/03/2022 04:48

Yep - I use the dressing table chair and partner uses the one in the corner!

mnnewbie111 · 25/03/2022 04:53

@SoManyTshirts

If you put worn clothes in the wardrobe they will generate that distinctive ‘charity shop’ smell.

I know, I’ve recently had to wash a whole drawerful of scarves and shawls.

Yessss this is why I tell my husband it's washing basket or just f ing wear it again
YewandOak · 25/03/2022 04:53

I have two chairs in my bedroom bu never chck clothes on them,I hang them up on hangers on a hook on the cupboard door to air. Looks tidier.

fairylightsandwaxmelts · 25/03/2022 06:26

Nooo, this would really stress me out 😳

If they're dirty, then in the washing basket, if they're clean, back in the wardrobe or hanging on the hooks in the hallway upstairs.

GlomOfNit · 25/03/2022 07:55

Top of a chest of drawers - it looks like a jumble sale and can be clearly seen from the lane outside as we have floor-ceiling doors upstairs. Sad I'd say it's about 90% wool jumpers/cardigans and denim (jeans and pinafores). Anything next to skin will get washed as it'll be too fragrant otherwise but who washes wool all the time (agree it mostly just needs airing, not that this is happening in my jumble sale)?? And jeans and pinafore dresses aren't going to be dirty after one wear, though if they did get soiled they'd be washed.

DH has a much smaller pile (fewer clothes!) which is mostly jumpers and lives on top of a pile of books and a defunct dvd player, I think that is. And he has one of those clothes valets where he hangs the odd jacket or shirt.

DS1 has a chair in his room, mostly obscured by heaped-on clothes.

TheFlis12345 · 25/03/2022 08:20

We have a valet stand, mainly used by DH. For things like T-shirts, I would only wear them once before washing, jumpers / dresses / jeans are hung up on the outside of the wardrobe or on the valet stand overnight to air then put away if I am not wearing them again the next day.

IncompleteSenten · 25/03/2022 09:05

No. But I don't wear clothes more than once before washing them.
I'm always paranoid they'll smell

DoWhatYouLike · 25/03/2022 09:58

Mine (and my husband's clothes are slung over the corner post thing of the bed

LymingtonHarbour · 25/03/2022 12:01

I had to Google valet stand. One of those wouldn't work for me as it would soon get smothered!

I concur with the pp warning about floordrobes. A giant spider once made a bed for itself in a pair of my trousers and I got a terrible shock the next morning. Always used a chair ever since.

GiantHaystacks2021 · 25/03/2022 13:23

Yes, I have a chair for my clothes and it's very nice.

Libertybear80 · 25/03/2022 19:44

Just cleared the chair this am 😁

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