DD says she needs a chairdrobe because it's gross to put worn clothes in the wardrobe

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or into drawers. And I reply if they are clean enough to be worn again they should go in the wardrobe.

I might not practise what I preach but I am right. Aren't I?

Wardrobes and chests of draws are for clean clothes exclusively. It means freshly washed and unworn. Not worn a couple of times not envy.

The only footwear stored in bedrooms are slippers.

Do what you want in your own bedroom, but as above, get an alternative storage for your daughter's worn clothes.

I agree. My Dh keeps wanting me to put the clothes away, and he doesn't see my point that they are not clean.

Yep, because I big heap of crumpled clothing is so much more that clothes hanging with air circulating around them.

Increase air supply by opening door if required.

Chairheap = lazy bastard

OP are you my mother?
She wouldn't understand this use to make me put my not dirty not clean clothes away then bitch at me for not wearing clean clothes
Much easier organisational wise to have a chairdrobe

I have a mirrordrobe. It’s a freestanding ‘A-Frame’ mirror from next that has a little coathanger rail and rail to throw trousers over behind it. Stands in the corner of the room and you cannot see the carnage behind it!!

Your dd is right to an extent. I don’t put worn stuff in the wardrobe. I just have a hook on the bedroom door for worn stuff. My dh wears more stuff and has a mini clothing rail for worn stuff that’s going to be reworn. So stuff is hung on hangers nicely. I think it was originally a kids dressing up rail so quite small but enough to hold a few worn items and keep them tidy

Oh she is right, I have a wardrobe door-drobe that worn but not dirty clothes drape over.

Your DD sounds like a small genius.

I have a banisterdrobe at the top of the stairs groaning with 4 people's once-worn garments. Putting those things away in wardobes and drawers means a nasty shock when an occasion calls for crisp clean clothing and everything is rumpled and though not exactly dirty, isn't completely fresh.

I agree and have a chairdrobe myself HOWEVER it requires the discipline of only wearing things until they smell slightly and then putting them in wash. Ds’s chairdrobe basically just ends up with a pile of slightly smelly clothes draped over a chair which never get put into the wash basket and then start to make his room smell. I then have to go in and sniff it all to determine whether it needs washing. I usually just dump it all in the wash anyway!

I have a set of over-the-door hooks that hangs on the outside of my wardrobe door for this purpose.

DD is right. I have never in my life put unclean clothes back in a drawer or wardrobe - ick and an invitation to moths. (Except jackets, which I'd wear many times before considering 'not clean').

I've wondered how people avoid having a 'chairdrobe' and can only conclude they wash everything after every wear, which is way too wasteful.

The free-standing clothes rail idea is excellent, if there's space.

It depends how much stuff is on it though - one outfit left out for tomorrow is probably fine, if it's got a week's worth of stuff that she claims is going to be worn again but in reality is getting too creased in an enormous pile then no because it's going to end up in the wash/laundry basket anyway!

I looked long and hard for a naice chair

then why cover it up with crumpled clothes?

My teen has one of these, but it only works for stuff she doesn't mind creased a bit!

I love a chairdrobe! - I don't have one at the moment because my bedroom is too small, but I totally understand the need for one. I currently just have a neat pile on the floor. You need to know (IMO) what has been worn once or more and what's totally fresh. My floordrobe contains jeans and jumpers that aren't yet in need of a wash, but my completely clean things are hanging up /on shelves.

Agree though that you need to keep it under control - chairdrobe is no use if you just chuck everything there.

But, a big caveat - you do have to have the self-discipline to re-wear the chairdrobed clothes within a couple of days, otherwise you end up with a ridiculous huge heap.

Ikea poang chair is the perfect chairdrobe IME, if you have space, as it has a nice tall back and lots of space.

I have hooks on the back of the bedroom door for cardigans/jumpers that I wear a few times before washing.

Anything else either goes in for washing or is folded on top of the washing basket (ours has a lid) to be worn again. I generally live in work uniform or leggings though - I dont have piles of random outfits waiting to be worn again.

Even if not really dirty they’ll make the other clothes smell, like going into a charity shop

Then they need to go into the laundry basket not the chairdrobe.

Hang them outside wardrobe to air or in airing cupboard ( they won't air on a chair or the floor)

Then cardis, jumpers, skirts and dresses put away. Tshirts and blouses are one-wear only anyway.

How many items are we talking about? I only have a pair of trousers and maybe a jumper out. Underwear, tops, socks are going straight into the wash after one wear.

And the trousers are normally worn the next day or the day after, so hardly a huge amount of things on the chair.

I have a benchrobe for things I'm likely to wear again in the next few days. But if it's something, for example, a pair of jeans or a jumper that I only wear for going out, that's not going to get worn again for a while, then it goes back in the wardrobe. Otherwise, as others have said, how do avoid a big, crumpled pile building up?

I agree with her. I don't put worn clothes away with unworn.

I have a ladder type lean-to. Reasonably stylish