To say that if clothes are clean enough to be worn again then put them in the wardrobe or drawer

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No need for "chairdrobes", "floordrobes" or over the bloody bannister.

Please help settle an argument between me and DD by saying I'm NBU

Nope. Long live the chairdrobe.

YABU! If they’ve been worn they’re not totally clean are they? You’re picking the wrong battle here. A better approach might be to suggest she wears those things again sooner and doesn’t just keep building up the chairdrobe.

Wtf? Seams like I'm in the minority Ialways put stuff away. If it's grim it needs washing surely???

I have cardigans I've never washed they can't livening a chairdrobe indefinitely

Yeah, these days I sling them back in the wardrobe. Who's going to know? Only the Clothing Police. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.

Blimey, how smelly is everyone? Especially in this weather. I’ll put a pair of jeans or a jumper back in the drawer if they’ve only been worn once or twice. Obviously not underwear and probably not t shirts though. I am a stickler for cleanliness and will only put clothes on after showering.

So does mine including underwear and socks. Gross.

There's a significant difference between clean enough to go back in a confined space with other clothes and 'grim'.
It's putting partly worn clothes away which is grim, imo, although cardis which have been worn over something else may possibly be ok for a while.

So does mine including underwear and socks. Gross.

Well obviously that's grim, those are wear once and put in the laundry basket items.

I think it depends on the item. Jeans or cords I put back in the wardrobe. I have lots of nice knitwear that needs hand washed and that I wear a t-shirt under, so that gets hung out on the wardrobe handle for a day or so, then put back in. I wear joggers round the house after work and the same pair does two/three days, so they get put on the floor-drobe when I take them off at night to put my nightie on, worn again the next day.

Anything worn next to my armpits gets washed after one wear, whether that’s a dress or a top.

You know that certain charity shop smell? That's the smell of worn clothes. You could be the cleanest, least sweaty person ever but you'd still leave microscopic skin flakes in whatever you had worn. After a while, a collection of such clothes would start to smell. This smell will permeate anything else hanging close by.

I believe the best thing to do is to hang worn items outside for the day to give them a good airing.

Things that don't touch the skin much, like jackets, jumpers, skirts, fair enough to air them 24h and then put them back in the wardrobe. But things that touch the skin a lot pick up skin flakes, sweat, and other body fluids. You may not notice that they smell bad, because they smell of you. But after being left in a wardrobe with no air circulation, you may find that when you take them out again they smell stale. Worse, the clothes touching them also smell stale.

There is a middle ground within the triangle of laundering/floordrobing/wardrobing everything after one wear,

Yabu, chairdrobe all the way

YABU, over the bannisters or on a hanger on the back of the door or wardrobe handle until I wear them again or wash them. I might eventually put something in the wardrobe that’s only been worn briefly after it’s had a squirt of antibac and aired for a while.

The only thing I put back in the cupboard are jumpers. Everything else is on the chair or hung from a standard lamp on a hanger to be worn again. If it stays unworn fo two weeks, it gets washed and put away.

I hang over the wardrobe door as I like things to air
The world won't end if they're back in the wardrobe of course

Why is it grim to put away but OK to wear again?

I don't get the logic.

Team chairdrobe! I even purchased a ladder back chair for my bedroom so there's more than one 'rung' to hang stuff on.

Perhaps some people here might appreciate Simone Giertz's invention 🙂
Haven't posted a link before - so fingers-crossed!

Clothes need airing

I will concede on the airing. Hence I have a couple of hooks on bedroom door. So knitwear will get worn, aired overnight then put away. Same with jeans.

I know there are some loons who wash knitwear and jeans after each wear.

What about a hookonthebackofthedoordrobe? (Take that autocorrect!)

During the week I hang everything on the back of the door and then replace it in the wardrobe at the weekend. My drawers are for lingerie and nightwear and t-shirts so they don't usually go back in drawers before they're washed.

(I have the run of the wall-length fitted wardrobe which also has shelving for sweaters etc.)

I put trousers/jeans, skirts and jumpers/cardigans and blazers back because all of these things barely touch my skin and no sweaty areas (obviously if I had sweated excessively or got dirt on them I'd put them in the wash). T-shirts and dresses I hang on the door if they're OK to rewear. I then try and rewear what's out so I don't end up with too big of a pile! I WFH so often haven't dirtied my clothes and therefore it would be wasteful to wash them all after one use.

I have this mini valet next to my wardrobe for such purposes: www.futoncompany.co.uk/shop-by-product/organise/bathroom/oak-mini-valet.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqPr6JC8lmNMgtNBEP9W6puI0AHBeoAkWATTj453Mfp2cKDDMrN

It feels like a week rarely passes on MN without me finding out another way in which I am disgusting. Anyway, I never thought not to do this. If my clothes are dirty I wash them, and if clean I put them back in the wardrobe. No one in my entire life has ever said or suggested I smell. No one backs away from me.

Yanbu. I put most clothes away after laying them on the bed until I can be bothered to put them away. Apart from summer dresses because they usulally want washing. I'm lucky in that I rarely sweat
My home is not big enough to have clothes strewn everywhere.
If your dd wants to do that they should be in her room.

A LONG time ago went for a Colour Me Beautiful ‘style’ day with a wonderful french stylist. She advised to hang stuff outside the wardrobe for 24 hours then put them away. There was discussion of how to make clothes last in good condition. Ever since then I have had a set of hooks in my bedrooms (several house moves since then) where I hang my clothes for a day before putting them back in the wardrobe.

No need to count how many times something is worn either - does it look dirty? does it smell? If not then fine to rewear.