I find it so difficult to tidy clothes

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Aibu for finding it so difficult to tidy clothes. Not my child's, but my own.

I've got three big piles and ample wardrobe. I actually find it so difficult to put things away, I often have to get help from mum or friend. We usually make piles but I get a feeling - I don't know, being overwhelmed with throwing things away or saying bye or maybe just knowing I can't find clothes to fit. Big 34L boobs and c section fat inactive belly from 2 year old.

Aibu. Rest of house is ok.

YANBU. I absolutely hate it. I used to make myself so it daily but I've really let it slip, and I'm a pretty tidy person. I don't like clutter or mess at all but clothes....argh. And I think once I've put all the kids' clothes away I just can't be bothered to do my own.
I often don't have time put washing away off the airer so I started a 'clean' basket, which has helped. When it's full I try to put it all away in one go.
I also got rid of any chair or stool or anything that would just end up piled with clothes.
I feel like maybe my system is all wrong and that's why I hate it.

It’s soooo boring isn’t it?!

Are you me? 🤣

If the clothes in this house were tidied away, thered actually be very little to do and very little mess. I spend so much time picking up scattered clothes, washing, hanging up/ out/ putting away, that I don’t get to much proper cleaning. Yanbu!

The Japanese T shirt folding method. Revolutionised my life.

I have to label the drawers in the hope.., and shelves in wardrobes make it easier .. and Graham Norton podcast.. and I keep all family socks downstairs in one drawer so they eventually find their way back to each other.. tedious boring work.. lots leaning over the banister upstairs right now🙈

Same here! My clothes are so messy but on the rare occasions when I get them organised I feel so great about it. U r not alone

I've got three big piles

So, where did the piles come from? Do you mean piles of clean clothes that are yours? Washing to put away?

Do you wear them all?

If there is something you don't like - get rid of it.
If you do like it but it doesn't fit-bag in the loft.
Otherwise, hang it in the wardrobe.

Or so you mean there's no room in the wardrobe as it's full?

What gets me are the clothes that have been worn for only a short period that are good enough to be worn again. I blame my mother's post-war upbringing for this habit 😁 I know most people just bung everything in the wash willy nilly but I just can't bring myself.

What do people do with their not clean enough to put away/dirty enough to wash clothes?? It's them what starts the whole pile thing going off in my house 🙈

It’s way harder to tidy them when there isn’t enough space, and all the “different sizes of my body” wardrobes are mixed in together.

I fluctuate between 14/16 and 18/20. I’m at the top end at the moment. I finally got it together yesterday and went through my wardrobe and drawers - I made 4 heaps:

Keep in wardrobe,
Keep but stash elsewhere as they’re too small,
Send to charity shop - it was always a mistake,
Bin.

The “keep but stash elsewhere as they’re too small” pile was what made it easier. I’m ok with knowing i can’t wear it right now, but not ok with getting rid of them. I strongly suspect I will want to chuck most of it eventually but it’s easier to get rid if I can put it in a safe holding bay for a while - otherwise every time I go to the wardrobe, I’m confronted with the “don’t like or don’t fit” options and I can barely see the good stuff.

It’s way easier to put my stuff away now cos there’s a lot more room, and the clothes I actually wear are in the wardrobe/drawers, as opposed to being out on a chair, with the stuff I don’t wear permanently in the wardrobe/drawers.

I USED to be like that, now I love seeing neat wardrobes and drawers

What my problem was, my mental block with it all - I had piled the weight on and as it piled on, I just got bigger clothes and shut the doors and drawers on what no longer fit me

The clothes I actually wore stayed in the clean washing basket

I finally dealt with the weight and after about 8 months I finally got the courage to deal with the clothes that hadn't seen the light of day for around 5 years

I went through everything, discarded all that were too big, so obviously dated, didnt suit, didnt like - cleared so mush space that now things were hung up or folded and put away and I wasnt pulling a pile of clothes out getting what I wanted. Learning how to fold and stack was also needed

Now every couple of months I go through the same process - everything out, everything really considered and Im brutal - I cull - even stuff Ive bought, loved , but only worn the once - out it goes

So Im not always in a rush to get my clothes put away, I did it today for the first time in 3 weeks - two baskets of ironing and folding - but the putting away was so easy because there is room

DH's wardrobe it tight as well. I hang his ironing on the door and let him fight for space because its just too overwhelming for me

It's really tedious.

Followed closely by putting shopping away.

I think it's because it feels like you've done the job (laundry, shopping) but you still have to do this final, fiddly, annoying bit!

I've tried on, worn, got out for whatever reason, washed etc.

I have a lovely big Ikea wall hook with 5 double arms which rotate. I don’t have much space and this has resolved the floordrobe issue. I still have issues with my clothes not organised or put away properly, but can at least hoover 😂

Ooh I'm liking the sound of that @Studyunder !

I just put them away in the wardrobe / drawers. Nothing bad happens. I do sometimes put them on the chairdrobe. But they can just go away with the cleaner ones.

It’s the worst I agree.

I have a chair. If I get more than half a dozen things on it, I wear them so they can go in the wash. I always wear clothes more than once, especially jeans.

Their are new unique experiences are there? 🤭 I despise my pile of clean clothes so much. I loathe putting them away more than washing up and I don't know why.