What do you do with clothes that are worn but don't yet need washing?

[MyNameIsInigoMontoya]

If you don't automatically wash everything after one wear (assuming they're not stained or smelly obviously!), where do you put them in the meantime? Especially things like cardis that might be worn a few times before they need a wash?

I haven't got a good solution for this yet - I don't like putting things back in the cupboard, in case they get mixed in with the clean things or get forgotten and go smelly, also DH is usually already in bed when I go up so don't want to wake him clattering around in cupboards. So I usually end up hanging stuff over the end of the bed as a temporary thing, but that means it's a permanent messy pile of clothes! Especially as I'm now back to two separate sets of clothes (work stuff and home stuff), worn on different days... Any ideas for managing it better please?

DH has a chair, I have a small wicker basket (like a pretty dinky washing basket) where I fold a pile of stuff like this which sits in the gap between my chest of drawers and the wall

Actually I quite like Elliptic's idea, being a bit anal myself when I can summon up the energy but would have to practise doing it without waking DH as he is typically in bed before me. And would have to get a bit less lazy than currently!

Dunno really why I don't like the worn things getting mixed up with the unworn ones, but I have a feeling my mum used to mutter darkly about it. Think there was something about clothes that had got deodorant on going yellow after a while if not washed or something?