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Clothes that are neither clean nor dirty. Where do you keep them?

43 replies

IrritableBitchSyndrome · 15/12/2013 15:01

Clean clothes go in the drawers and on hangers. Dirty clothes go in the wash. Jeans that have been worn once and can be worn again - where do they go? Our current solution - on the bedroom floor. Not ideal. I'm curious, fellow MNers, what do you do?

OP posts:
2cats2many · 15/12/2013 15:02

Back in the drawer. If they are too dirty to go in the drawer, they should be in the wash.

BreakingGood · 15/12/2013 17:07

Back in the drawer or the hanger - if they don't need washing then they aren't dirty.
The only issue I have with this is that I fold DH and DS T-shirts a certain way (so that they can see them all at once when they open the drawer and get the one they want out without disturbing the rest) and there is no way that they will do the same. The solution is pretty much to wash those whether they need washing or not, if they aren't going to be worn later that day/the next day. Not ideal I know...

bellablot · 15/12/2013 17:08

Back where you would usually store them, if they aren't clean enough then they need a wash.

StarsUponThars · 15/12/2013 17:11

On a chair.

MinesAPintOfTea · 15/12/2013 17:13

Hook on the back of the door. If not worn the next day they are folded and put away but I think they need that airing first.

FergusSingsTheBlues · 15/12/2013 17:14

Floordrobe!

BrownSauceSandwich · 15/12/2013 17:23

Floordrobe here too. Apparently, storing used clothes (which will contain traces of sweat, salt and moisture) in a confined space is a recipe for moths. This is NOT why my clothes are on the floor... I am just a lazy hussy.

My granny and grandad always used to have a dressing mirror... It was a full length mirror, attached to a low drawer unit, and which concealed a hanging rail. My grandad would take off his suit at night, and hang the trousers and jacket behind the mirror, so they were tidy, but aired.

StarsUponThars · 15/12/2013 17:25

I have one of those BrownSauce! But the Futon Company call it a lifestyle station Grin.

Yika · 15/12/2013 17:27

Either hung over the end of the bed or on a hanger somewhere outside the wardrobe (door handle, radiator, free standing clothes rail etc)

iggymama · 15/12/2013 17:29

BreakingGood please tell more of your magical folding system?

BrownSauceSandwich · 15/12/2013 17:36

Good god... A lifestyle station sounds like something else altogether Confused. Well anyway, I think they're a good idea, but I bet I'd still throw stuff on the floor... Like the queue of shoes waiting to get back into my wardrobe. I mean, how hard can that be?

DurhamDurham · 15/12/2013 17:38

The bed in our spare room, it has become my unofficial dressing room much to the disgust ( jealousy) of my two teen girls Grin

LaFataTurchina · 15/12/2013 17:44

clothes over the edge of the bed

work uniform over my desk chair

theDudesmummy · 15/12/2013 17:46

I have a chair in the bedroom. I agree that if they don't need to go to the wash they could theoretically go back into the cupboard, but sometimes too tired lazy to do that when I know I am going to wear them again in the morning eg a pair of jeans...

theDudesmummy · 15/12/2013 17:47

I also have a queue of boots and shoes in front of the wardrobe...

ZingChoirsOfAngels · 15/12/2013 17:49

same, bedroom floor.

DH hangs his jeans on the hooks on the back of the door.
I leave my bra wherever (hate bras,they come off as soon as I get home).

stuff id everywhere. I need a maid!Grin

Bubbless · 15/12/2013 17:50

Clean clothes hung/ in a draw, worn clothes on the dressing table (il normally just wear them again and again and again until they need washing) and dirty in the wash!

varigatedivy · 15/12/2013 20:18

Everything goes back in the wardrobe unless it really needs washing.
I keep my longing clothes- jogging bottom type stuff and a T shirt on a chair ready for the next day.
I'm afraid I don't understand people who feel the need to wash clothes after 1 wear- maybe tops if you get really sweaty - but not trousers, jumpers or skirts.

Original poster
IrritableBitchSyndrome · 16/12/2013 09:50

Ooh. A lifestyle station. If we had a bedroom big enough that would be fab. I am relieved that it's not just me that goes with the floordrobe approach, but I feel a bit old for this now. I'm nearly 40 ffs... surely I should be organised in a grown up way?

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Weelady77 · 16/12/2013 11:42

Hang up to air then back in drawer

QueNoelle · 16/12/2013 11:50

I put mine away in drawers/wardrobe. DH piles his on a chair in the bedroom. When I've got sick of looking at it, I put it either in his drawer (jeans, tops) or in the wash (socks!). Then I moan at him.

It seems to work for us.

Mrswellyboot · 16/12/2013 11:57

I have coat hooks in the ensuite or use a chair if I will be wearing something again. Try to use the next day so clothes aren't hanging around. Dh has an underbed storage box he uses.

MinesAPintOfTea · 16/12/2013 12:04

Get yourself some hooks seriously. Either a coat stand, or some mounted on a wall or door.

ShatnersBassoon · 16/12/2013 12:13

I have a tri-fold mirror thing from the Futon Company. The middle section is a full length mirror, one side has hooks at the top and canvas storage pockets down its entire length (I use them for make-up, hair stuff and toiletries), the other has hanging rails and hooks for clothes that can be worn again. It's my favorite piece of furniture, and I've never seen anything similar.

Is it a lifestyle station?!

Selks · 16/12/2013 12:17

On the chairdrobe Grin