To ask if you rotate your clothes?

[Pigtailsandall]

When I was small, my mum used to pack winter clothes away in the spring and bring out summer clothes - and vice versa in the fall. I'm from up north (way up north), so it made sense as we had proper snow gear etc.

My DH (from London) and friends (mainly Londoners too) think this is really odd behaviour. Obviously I have some stuff for all seasons but knitted dresses, thick scarves and woolly socks get boxed up around Easter, and strapless dresses and sandals brought out. It means everything gets looked at too in case it's no longer needed/liked, and aired outside. Is it just me?

(I've also just packed away most of my work clothes as I'm only going in once a week and a few smart outfits suffice. I like a fairly empty wardrobe)

I do what u do op and my fiancé (who is from up north) thinks it's weird!

I have a VERY large wardrobe system so no need to pack away. I do however have it organised into evening, summer, winter etc....

No. I don't have enough clothes for it to be worth it. They all fit in my wardrobe.

I don't pack them away but the non-seasonal clothes get moved to the top rail which I can't reach.

I never used to, but I do now since we moved near MIL and she told me to! But there's quite a variation in temperature, minus figures in winter and 30's in the summer.

Yes I do that too, and my children do. Who needs shorts and strappy tops in their wardrobe in January 🥶

I do this too because I have a very small wardrobe. At the moment my summer clothes are in a big plastic box.
Sadly, due to my chronic yo-yo dieting, I also have to rotate between wardrobes in several sizes. At the moment I am a size 10-12. Sizes 14 to 20 are in the basement.

We have a big bag where kids shorts, sandals and summer hats live from October to Easter. At Easter I take them out and put away gloves, hats and scarves from winter. I always have some thin gloves available for chillier summer days.

I rotate my clothes. In Autumn/Winter I wear trousers, long sleeve tops and jumpers. When I get warm in these, usually early to mid May, I get out the Spring/Summer clothes. I wear 7/8 trousers, no socks, nice sandals, short sleeve top with a light cardigan. I keep a few pairs of socks and a pair of walking shoes out for wet or cool weather.

I keep one skinny knit jumper out for evenings. I have shorts and dresses out but rarely wear these unless we have a heatwave. I like wearing light coloured tops and mushroom trousers in the summer even if weather in only 17c. I feel as if I have had a summer. We are in southern Ireland and I work in an office with smart/casual dress code.

Thermals and waterproofs are packed in boxes at the side of the wardrobe. Swimwear and holiday clothes are in boxes in the bottom of the wardrobe. Everything else is hung up or in draws as Normal.

I do this. Summer/ winter stuff goes in a vacuum storage bag

Yes, every year. When my DCs were small it was a weekend's work in late September/ early October. Then I did it all again in May. I still do it but just for myself now.

It's a chance to wash everything and sort out what's to be donated or thrown out. Also means I have only seasonal items in my drawers so no rummaging around on dark winter mornings. When the DCs were small it meant they only had seasonally appropriate clothing to choose from so we had fewer battles over tshirts in December, etc.

I live in a place where there's an enormous difference between summer and winter temps.

I used to and have split the wardrobe but now they are all out all of the time as the weather is not set in stone.

I have a small wardrobe and a large loft so yes, I do this.

Yes, sort them at end of season, decide if keeping or not, wash dry and put into vacpacs on top of wardrobe or in roof.
VacPacs are brill, we discovered them when we lived in a shoebox in London.

I don't have the space to put winter coats or jumpers anywhere except the wardrobe. Otherwise i would.

I do my own version, which is that I rotate clothes depending on how fat I am at that time. So if it a size 18 season or a 16, or the (almost mythical) size 12 bag I need to bring out?

@Pigtailsandall I'm the same as you and like a limited wardrobe (and I'm from Canada too). We pack summer clothes away and vice versa. Most of my formal workwear is away too.

My mum used to do this. It make a bit of sense, not to have ALL the clothes stuffed in the drawers all the time.

I might start again. Thanks, OP, for the suggestion.

Summer, winter and holiday clothes all kept separate and boxed up in the loft when not required. Also another box of nice things that are too big and which I hope will not fit again but which I hang on to just in case they do

We live in the UK. The weather is slightly changable.

What the fuck is the point in doing this when every Feb there is the wonder week of glorious sunshine and every Aug there is a week where you need a great big wooly jumper to stop your tits from freezing off.

Don't get this at all.

PS I wear christmas socks all year around. In fact I think virtually all my socks are christmas socks.

When the dcs were small, I used to do this because they had sooooo many clothes of varying sizes as they were in the process of outgrowing them with bigger sizes on standby. Now they are older, they have fewer clothes and are more selective in their choices. The volume in their wardrobes and downstairs cloak room is enough and I don't need to rotate for the seasons.

Same with my clothes. I am mostly WFH anyway, so might selection of clothes has gone right down.

Its not such an issue these days as most people have central heating and if they're at work (when we worked in offices not at home) the office would be heated too. In my younger days I worked in an old building with poor heating that got cold in the winter (well any time other than summer) so my boyfriend (now husband) bought me thermal under wear, hardly romantic but I was thankful once I tried them .

These days its thick jammies and fleece gown for winter and lighter jammies and dressing gown for summer.

@Pigtailsandall

When I was small, my mum used to pack winter clothes away in the spring and bring out summer clothes - and vice versa in the fall. I'm from up north (way up north), so it made sense as we had proper snow gear etc.

My DH (from London) and friends (mainly Londoners too) think this is really odd behaviour. Obviously I have some stuff for all seasons but knitted dresses, thick scarves and woolly socks get boxed up around Easter, and strapless dresses and sandals brought out. It means everything gets looked at too in case it's no longer needed/liked, and aired outside. Is it just me?

(I've also just packed away most of my work clothes as I'm only going in once a week and a few smart outfits suffice. I like a fairly empty wardrobe)

Yes, I do the same.

I did this as a child in southern England.

Now my wardrobe doesn’t vary massively so I don’t. Jeans and t-shirt all year round except a few very hot days. It doesn’t seem worth going up into the loft twice a year to swap two pairs of shorts for a winter coat.