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

Mine get hung in the airing cupboard

It's never occurred to me to keep things out of the wardrobe after 1 wear. Bacteria is everywhere, it can't matter if worn clothes are touching washed ones. Obviously I'm in the minority but this has never occurred to me.

Coat hooks.
If your boy's room smells, it's not 'worn once' clothes, it's dirty clothes that should be in the wash.

This.

Room gets cleaned on a regular basis. Everything is washed including the bedding once a week. I am strict on this.

The smell remains.

Why would you need to keep track of how many times it's been worn? It either needs washing (because it smells or is visibly dirty) or it doesn't, surely? If it doesn't need washing then it's fine to wear again however many times it's been worn. Unless it's underwear, of course, but that goes straight in the washing basket anyway.

Completely agree! I hate having clothes draped over furniture but I also don't like over-washing. I have a separate rail for clothes that have been worn without washing. I don't was knitwear after every use so air and then hang on my re-wear rail. Same with jeans and sweaters that I've worn a vest top under. I wash jeans and sweaters every few wears and knitwear more rarely but air them fully instead.

They may be clean enough to wear again, but still need airing so draped over a chair or on a hanger, but in the room rather than the wardrobe is better.
Couple of chairs in the room and hooks over the door?

"It either needs washing (because it smells or is visibly dirty) or it doesn't, surely?"

No, it's not necessarily all or nothing.

YABU. My mother has done this for years. Her wardrobe STINKS. There will always be a very slight odour even after a short wear. Over years this smell adds up in the confined space of a wardrobe.

Worn once outer clothing goes on one end only of my clothes rail.

So if his clothes smell to that extent after being worn once, does putting them in the wardrobe somehow magically stop them smelling or would it simply stink out the wardrobe and the freshly laundered clothes in there?

You would sit on public transport / chairs and then put the clothes back with clean clothes? I could never!

What do you think is going to happen?

I don't think anything is going to happen. It's just bad practice mixing clean with unclean. Same way as I wouldn't put dirty dishes in with clean ones. I don't trust other people's hygiene

Yabu because I want to keep "worn once" clothes separate and put them in the laundry once they have been worn twice.

But no need for a floordrobe. I have 3 sturdy chrome hooks on the wall next to the wardrobe and worn things go there.

Are you intending to show your DD this thread op?
I wouldn’t, you will never hear the end of it.

What does 'bad practice' mean though?

With dirty dishes, you presumably aren't going to use them again. That's why you don't put them away with clean dishes.

Whereas with the clothes, you are happy to wear both kinds again, so why distinguish in this way?

I tend to wear the sane set of clothes for about 3 days running (clean undies and socks etc obviously) and then I wash them. In-between times I hang them up to air on a rail in the spare room.

Suits, blazers, skirts definitely in the wardrobe/drawers. Scarves live in a basket near bedside for currently wearing ones and in a stored away basket for those not currently wearing/seasonal. Hats are all winter woolly kids stuff here and have their own storage space with gloves in the hall.

I can't see how anyone can have coats, jackets and blazers on a chairobe or dry clean them more that monthly at the very most.

My kids have a specific drawer of their chests of drawers set aside for clothes that have been worn already but are good for another day. That way they don't get mixed up with their clean clothes but also don't end up on the floor.

On top of the laundry basket= wear again*
Inside the laundry basket = to be washed
In the wardrobe/drawers = clean

(*this rarely happens. My t shirts seem to have as much dinner as my mouth!).

Then she's got too many clothes that are being put back and left for too long in between washing. Fabrics will smell if left unused for long enough, including ones that were freshly washed and unworn to begin with. They pick up moisture from the air.

The point is, having a floordrobe rather than putting them away doesn't automatically mean it won't pong like a dead badger.

On the floor or banister = not ok.

A chair in the bedroom = absolutely fine.

FWIW I rotate my clothes for work and wear them twice.

So I will wear them and then over layers like trousers and cardis that don’t need washing after one wear, are put the other end of my wardrobe.
Once I’ve been through all of my work clothes, then I rewear the others and then they’re washed.

So I do put them back in the wardrobe but purely for space reasons and they’re separated from the other clothes.