Piles of once-worn clothes - help

[Justinepants]

What does everyone else do with the clothes that they've worn but aren't dirty enough to need washing? Especially children's ones.

I've got a chair in the bedroom full of them but at least I go through them and make sure I do wear them again - and occasionally even fold them up to look tidy - but the kids end up with big piles which they always forget to put on next time.

I get fed up every so often and wash everything just so I can put it away but it doesn't really need it.

Any suggestions?

stop washing the stuff? Just throw it back in their rooms.

Rehang?

If dirty or smelly, wash. If not, put away.

My younger children follow the rule of "wear twice, then put in the wash, and get clean clothes out".

The eldest knows that if she puts clean stuff in the wash it will get thrown back in her room. And if she runs out of clothes, she will have no clothes!

put away again.

Gosh, really? Do lots of people just hang stuff back up again? I really never knew that.

Don't you just end up with cupboards and drawers full of not quite clean clothes?

Pegs in the back of the door for a day to air, then folded/hung and Bach into wardrobe.

Does it matter if they're not fresh from the machine if they are basically clean and don't smell? Presumably you keep dry clean only jackets in there which haven't been washed...

Hang it up on the front of the wardrobe to air. If you still don't wear it again after a day or so then wash.

Or, hang it in the wardrobe once it is aired. But, you have to have cleared out your wardrobe so that clothes are not all bunched up.

I have a similar chair full of unclean- undirty clothes. My DC are too smell to keep their clothes clean though!

Knickers, socks and undershirts go straight in the wash basket. They know this. Trousers, skirts and over-tops get washed when properly grubby. They know this too.

DTD1 isn't very good at it though.

I have one of those poncy "distressed" painted towel ladders propped against the wall. Trousers on one rung, jumpers on the next, etc. It's great. Very handy and looks intentional instead of a mess.

I have actually roped it to the wall at the top, to a convenient weird cleat that was on the wall anyway, because before then it just fell down all the time, which was not so great.

Hang them outdide for a bit if you want a freshen up.

Thanks everyone.
I'm still not sure I can put even slightly dirty things back in drawers (although I'm really interested that so many people do) so I think I'll just have to be more disciplined about getting the kids to wear them again or keep them folded neatly on the chair. Or perhaps get more dirty the first time they wear them

Poncy ladder sounds interesting. I shall google, though there's not a lot of wall space left their room.

For things like your outer clothes (cardies, hoodys and jumpers over t shirts) then yeah just hang or fold - I probably wouldn't put back in wardrobe for fear of attrating moths. For things like t shirts/anything that is directly on your body - absolutely not, even if not stained, you will have body oils/sweat on them - worn once then washed. Especially in this lovely heat wave we're having :)

*nothing against anybody who does. But I also think fabreeze is a filthy idea, it's basically covering up smells with yet another chemical that will be on the clothes that you're wearing.

What's wrong with a good old fashioned floordrobe? Folded neatly down the side of the bed. I only have two outfits worth of clothes at any one time. My DH just seems to want to keep all his clothes on the floor in a chaotic array of 'but it's only got a small bit of ketchup on it, it doesn't need washing yet' type way. I think he thinks washing clothes might hurt them...

Also febreezing worn clothes, might I politely say ew. If it needs to be artificially scented it needs to be washed.