AIBU - clothes are either clean or dirty

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DP is currently decorating a chair with multiple items of clothing.

He says they're airing out and are neither fit to hang up or be washed again.

IMO clothes are either clean enough to hang up and wear or need to be washed. Where is the grey area??

He says I'm being ridiculous and it's totally normal.

AIBU?

Well I am shocked - shocked by this thread! I have never heard of The Chair before. There isn’t enough room in my bedroom for a chair anyway, it’s wardrobe or washing basket for me. Talk about a different world!!

Doesn't everyone has a clothes chair?

I have hanging rail I keep in my spare room. The problem with putting worn but not dirty clothes in the wardrobe is that, when seasons change or you start to wear other things, they will stay there for ages and get rather fusty.

I use the hanging up on the back of the door method -- it's indicative of clothes are good to rewear but should be kept seperate from clean clothes to indicate they've already been worn so that they don't go too many wears without a wash - a skirt is fine for a few wears if worn over leggings so no sweat from skin contact etc but if it goes back in the wardrobe I'd lose track of how fresh it was.

I have a chairdrobe.

I like the ladder idea though. Also the only useful purpose for those decorative ladders.

Yep, DH is right.

I have an ‘airing rail’! It’s great.

I hate this man habit of piling loads of clothes on a chair. I took the chair out of the bedroom now they pile up on the bedrail and over the dressing table mirrror. Grrrr.

I have a clothes chair too.

Freshly laundered clothes go in the wardrobe

Worn but clean clothes go on the chair.

Everything else goes in the laundry basket 🧺

Im with your DH. Clothes that have been worn once or twice and can be worn again I keep on an over the door rail. Laundered clothes go in the wardrobe but for some reason I feel once something has been worn that I don’t want it back in the wardrobe.

I’m with you op, but lots will be like your DH.

I dont like wearing clothes that aren’t fresh. I’m not a particularly smelly person but I would t wear the same clothes twice in a row unless I had to.

Team big pile of clothes.

@RobertaFirmino

You know that certain smell many charity and vintage shops have? That's the smell of unwashed clothes. They may very well be clean enough to wear again but they've still been worn. Whether you like it or not, worn clothes have bacteria. In time, this produces an odour.

I'm with your husband on this - keep worn and unworn clothes separate. Also make sure you wash clothes from charity/vintage shops before putting them away in your drawers/wardrobe unless you are certain they've been steamed.

But surely it’s really no different to having a pile of worn clothes on the floor or on a chair festering for weeks? At least if clothes are hung up in a wardrobe they get some sort of airing, I think it’s really unhygienic to keep clothes in a pile on a chair, really grim, like a village hall jumble sale.

I used to have a chair but I've downgraded to a radiator for now

I've solved this by putting coat hooks on the inside of the wardrobe doors. So the 'grey area' / floordrobe clothes now go on those.

It marks them out as 'clean enough to wear once more around the house but not actually properly clean' without them being on the floor / chair of doom.

I have a chair of despair.
But I also stack clean folded clothes on it and then I fling the half worn clothes on the floor.
I am going to treat myself to the La Redoute valet stand. It’s just what I need.
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I have specifically a basket called the ‘wear again pile’ that is for this exact purpose. Clean but worn clothes but that can go on again. I would probably put them back but my partner absolutely will not so this is a compromise… ie where he’ll find the clothes he leaves on the back of chairs etc

I'm not on board with the logic. If they're fit enough to be worn again they're fit enough to be put away. If he's worried they'll contaminate his wardrobe because he's worn them, get them in the wash. They'd be contaminating the chair anyway, it isn't airing them. I hate clutter and mess, any potentially dirty clothes on that chair would be fair game for the laundry basket.

Don't we all own a chair where we put our "worn once but not dirty yet not clean enough to go back into the cupboard clothes " :)?

We also have a chairdrobe, I thought everyone had one. And when the chair has actual clean washing on it waiting to be put away the in-betweeny clothes go in a heap on the floor.

I have a chair in my bedroom, and there is always a few items of clothes on it, either draped over the back, or the arms, or on the seat, and then I will invariably find any one of my three cats sleeping on there.

@TheGriffle

Ours get draped on the bannister. They are not clean enough to go back in with the clean clothes but they are not dirty enough to go in the wash so on the bannister they live.

^We do this!

#TeamDP

@Viviennemary it’s clearly not just men! I’m one of the many women here with a chair I am happy to rewear clothes but in the next day or two. I wouldn’t want to put it in the wardrobe worn and have it hanging there for weeks. Doesn’t feel right. I wear it a couple of times that week then wash.

Mine does the same! Clothes used to decorate the floor as well as the chair but now they have a special ‘clothes stand’ to air on. I can only think it’s because he wears shirts and jeans for leaving the house or working over Skype, but joggers and T-shirts when off-duty, so the jeans and shirts only get worn for half an hour at a time. And he has to alternate or it looks like he’s wearing the same shirt each day.

Whereas I’m currently at home so I wear the same clothes all day (usually leggings and a dress) as they’re suitable for school run plus any indoor activities, then they go in the wash at the end of the day.

I am just about to move and plan to reorganise wardrobe & chest of drawers so I have an area to put clothes which have been worn but can still be worn again without putting them with the freshly washed clothes.

@Twillow

It's a thing. Clean enough to be worn again in the near future. Not clean enough to go in the wardrobe.

Me too, DH too