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Where do you put your clothes at bedtime

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TheFloorDrobeHasGotMe · 13/07/2024 21:33

And how do you stop having a floordrobe?

Has any non-tidy/disorganised person happened on any top tips, easy habits to create that would help me from being overtaken by clothes that are in the 'wear again' pile in the corner of our bedroom?

Everytime I reorganise the drawers and wardrobes, they stay neat for a few days then the piles just build back up worse than ever.

DH is tidy, poor thing, but he's fighting a losing battle as I'm encroaching on his clothes territory,

I just do not and never have had a system. If you have, could you share pls?

Any easy tips welcome.

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AuraBora · 13/07/2024 22:31

I have no system :)
Tonight my bra got.hung on the back of the bedroom door - I know I will wear it again tomorrow. Trousers went on back of bathroom door as I took them off there after moisturising my my legs and didn't fancy carrying them upstairs (downstairs bathroom). Finally, top got flung on a child's unicorn rocker thing which for some reason is currently sitting rather sadly next to my wardrobe... I'll probably wear it again tomorrow, if not.it will go in the wash!

Rarely do clothes make it back into the wardrobe...!

For quite some time I used a snuzpod as sort of dumping ground..until I finally got rid of it! Long after baby was in her own room..

Some good tips on here. Maybe I'll try to get organised!!

BuddhaAtSea · 13/07/2024 22:32

My walking the dog/allotment clothes (trousers/shorts) hang on the back of the bathroom door. Because I’d wear them 2-3 times, for no more than about an hour at a time.

I wear a uniform for work, so I’d wear the same dress or top 2 times to go to and come back from work (10 min walk), for this I have an ikea clothes stand thingy. If the following day is cold, and I need trousers and long sleeve, I leave the warm weather outfit on the valet (I think it’s called) and wear it again a couple of days later.

So, back of bathroom door and valet (?).

TheFloorDrobeHasGotMe · 13/07/2024 22:33

@bergamotorange

It feels like emotional harm. I feel so much happier in a tidy, orderly environment but my mind and behaviours just don't naturally work that way.

So I'm asking for inspiration 🙏🏻🙏🏻🤩

We're never too late to change, I hope! 🤞🤞🤞

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NotMyCircusNotMyProblem · 13/07/2024 22:34

DH and I each have our own wash baskets. Clothes being worn the next day are folded up and placed on top of the baskets. Well, mine are folded up, his are thrown on it.

When I was a teenager and at college, I used to just leave my clothes on the floor. I got dressed one morning, pulled my jeans on and went downstairs for breakfast. Felt 'something' moving in my jeans... it was an earwig Shock I screamed and pulled my jeans off in front of of my dad (embarrassing). Have never left my clothes on the floor since Halo

savethatkitty · 13/07/2024 22:35

I forgot to add, typically I'll wear things multiple times before it goes in the wash. Unless visibly stained or smelly. Apart from undergarments & exercise gear, I don't think clothes need to be washed after only one wear....

verdantverdure · 13/07/2024 22:42

We have hooks on the back of the bedroom doors and hooks on the wardrobe doors and the "to be worn again" clothes go there.

In three days if we haven't worn them we have to decide when we will wear them again and if that is more than three days away then the item goes in the wash. Better clean and put away than festering fir weeks.

Things like jeans and jackets get hung by an open window for a good airing. My husband would wear his jeans multiple weekends in a row. Mine would be washed weekly.

verdantverdure · 13/07/2024 22:42

Only clean clothes go in the wardrobe because of moths.

Apolloneuro · 13/07/2024 22:44

Either straight in the laundry basket or spritzed with fabric freshener and hung back up in wardrobe.

justasking111 · 13/07/2024 22:46

TheFloorDrobeHasGotMe · 13/07/2024 22:08

@PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich

That is very fancy indeed.

My wardrobe is actually in another room (which probably doesn't help) but that is very cool.

Am wondering if one of these would help or would eventually buckle under the weight....

That's what I was thinking if you're short on floor space as we are. Found something on eBay

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TheFloorDrobeHasGotMe · 13/07/2024 22:47

Great shout, @just

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TheFloorDrobeHasGotMe · 13/07/2024 22:48

Great shout @justasking111 thank you

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PFBGirlAlert · 13/07/2024 22:50

I have a coat stand like those posted above.

WhataPithy · 13/07/2024 22:50

I have a decorative ladder, similar to this one (just bigger). All the clothes that don’t need a wash, are neatly folded over the ladders. It also take very little floor space.

Where do you put your clothes at bedtime
SharonEllis · 13/07/2024 22:52

I have a wooden clothes horse for half dirty tops. Jumpers fold & put back in cupboard/drawerTrousers fold & put on floor next to clothes horse.

justasking111 · 13/07/2024 22:55

Love the ladder. Unfortunately our bedroom is fully fitted with wardrobes, a huge dressing table all built in. Third wall huge window, fourth wall two bedside cabinets, bed and door. There's just nowhere. The laundry bag has to hang on a wardrobe door handle.

Pleiades2020 · 13/07/2024 23:00

One end of the wardrobe for wear again hangables, combined with over door hooks, door handles for wearing tomorrow, and the banister. I start with good intentions!

Flyrightby · 13/07/2024 23:00

A laundry basket in-between bathroom and bedroom so wherever we undress, the basket is there.

My husband does have a small ongoing pile of clothes on the floor next to the bed, I put everything away straightaway. Drawers under the bed.

Drying towels however is an issue. We hang ours over doors which look awful but where else? They don't air properly on our heated towel rails, we don't have a long landing bannister and the spare room dryer is always full of laundry.

mynameiscalypso · 13/07/2024 23:00

TheFloorDrobeHasGotMe · 13/07/2024 21:59

Chair is definitely needed. Just need tips on how not to make it into a chair drobe!

I honestly wonder if I need a list on the back of the door:

Step 1 - take off clothes
Step 2 - fold jeans, jumper and bra and lit on chair
Step 3 - put knickers and socks in wash basket
Step 4 - put on PJs

I'm 57 for gods sake!!!

I have basically accepted that I'm going to be this way for life. I can make a bedroom messy within about 12 seconds of entering it. I will never keep to any system. It's just setting myself up for failure. I will just continue what I do (with my trusty chair) and occasionally get annoyed that something that should have been hung up has got too creased to wear.

Allthehorsesintheworld · 13/07/2024 23:02

Over door hangers, mine have 2 rows x 5 hooks.

thelengthspeoplegoto · 13/07/2024 23:05

We have a chair but also I have a small section in my wardrobe for 'worn once' things.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 13/07/2024 23:06

Socks, underwear, t-shirt etc in the laundry bin. Anything that isn't going to be worn again without washing, laundry bin. Anything that is going to be worn again in the next day or so, I have a small clothes rail where they get hung to air. Nothing goes in the wardrobe or drawers unless it is clean.

NomDePrune · 13/07/2024 23:06

mambojambodothetango · 13/07/2024 21:55

Hooks! I bought 2xsets of 4 hooks and they are in the bedroom next to my wardrobe. Anything I'm going to wear again gets hung up.

Hooks are the answer!
Hooks on the door (a row of 4) for bras, shirts, trousers - (by the belt loops) etc.

billybear · 13/07/2024 23:07

a stool pile them on , then put in washing basket when ready to wash them

DinnaeFashYersel · 13/07/2024 23:08

Clothes horse for things that can be reworn and basket for laundry.

Xmasbaby11 · 13/07/2024 23:11

I hang mine up on the outside of the wardrobe if I am wearing it the next day. If not, it goes back into the wardrobe.

most of the time, anyway. At other times I pile things up on the sofa, forget how many times I’ve worn them and end up chucking them into laundry. This works less well.