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?

@HairyFanjoBanjo

Doesn't everyone has a clothes chair?

Of course not!!

I have a floordrobe

@Ethelswith We rock the floordrobe as well

Wooden ladder thing and basket underneath here.

Washing every single item every day if they aren’t dirty is ridiculous for time, environment and clothes longevity. Generally if it’s an outer layer it gets worn several times unless actually dirty.

In Ds nursery I have a small basket also.

We have 2-3 washes per week atm just for re-useable nappies. Which I think is far better than disposable to landfill.
But I am really trying for everything else to really reduce the amount of laundry, ie I use to wash bedding weekly, now aiming for more like every 10 days.

@Hoolihan

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 do like the terminology used here Floordrobe Chairdrobe Clothes chair Chair of despair Nobody has mentioned Skyhooks a term for just abandoning worn clothes.

@Hoolihan seems to have the same method as I do but I am culling my clothes and as I have more space to put things away easily the piles of clean washing are not precariously piled as much.

Everyone has a space for their not-clean-but-not-dirty clothes on this house. DH has a basket on top of his chest of drawers, I have some hooks on the side of the wardrobe, one child has a divider at the end of their wardrobe with a couple of hangers. Other child used to have a basket, but they never ever rewore basket clothes and it drove me a bit mad so we're still working on a new solution there!

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,

No once the wardrobe door is shut they don’t get much airing. If clothes are out, they are also visible so remind you to wear them again. If they are in the wardrobe, you can easily forget and wear something else thus increasing the number of worn but not dirty clothes.

I do this. Huuuuge pile on the trunk. I wear clothes multiple times if they don't get dirty.

YABU. There is a middle ground - particularly if you do a lot of stuff outdoors. I have a ‘level of clean’ clothes that I wouldn’t necessarily wear out to meet someone but I’d rather put them on to take the dog out/do the garden etc than take something clean out of the wardrobe.

I don't like putting worn-but-not-dirty clothes away in cupboards or drawers, so I have one of these.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01BBPG70Y/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_4SSPT0S79Z5ERDKX0XKS?tag=mumsnetforu03-21