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Original poster

Is it just me who has a bedroom chair with a mountain of clothes on it?

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ggirl · 18/04/2015 16:51

I am tempted to get rid if it to make me put clothes away straight away but I know I would end up with a pile on the floor.

Tell me Im not alone in my slobbishness

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gonetrekking · 18/04/2015 17:11

Mine are on the washing basket too! I have a clothes chest as well which is full of linen but completely impossible to access due to the clean clothes on top of it which haven't reached a home yet.

mrsdavidbowie · 18/04/2015 17:11

No I have no chair in my bedroom.
(Can't fit one in!)
I am very methodical .
Ex h used to put his on the floor. It annoyed the hell out of me. One reason for divorcing him Grin

MyArksNotReady · 18/04/2015 17:12

Putting worn clothes back in the wardrobe encourages those insects that eat clothes.

Worn clothes hang on the back of the chairdrobe.

fairnotfit · 18/04/2015 17:13

Or the wardrobe could be replaced with a sofa, Faded? Wink Lots of room for lots of clothes... Grin

Luciferbox · 18/04/2015 17:13

Another one with a cot full

goodasitgets · 18/04/2015 17:13

I have a bedrobe Grin spare bed has the wardrobes in, clothes go on bed either before being worn again or before I put them away

BigRedBall · 18/04/2015 17:15

Oh man, I got rid off the chair and now how a lovely pile on my Chester draws and hanging off the cot. I stupidly thought no chair meant no piles of clothes!

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ggirl · 18/04/2015 17:15

What I need is a dressing room , with a big chair.

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WiIdfire · 18/04/2015 17:15

I used to. I solved the problem by purchasing a hat stand. That holds all the clothes from the chairdrobe plus towels and dressing gowns. Much neater.

Lweji · 18/04/2015 17:16

We all need one of these, but I suspect it still wouldn't be enough...

Is it just me who has a bedroom chair with a mountain of clothes on it?
Mintyy · 18/04/2015 17:17

A chair, a wooden chest at the foot of the bed and a large chest of drawers. I am like one of those hoarders you see on tv Grin almost.

Lweji · 18/04/2015 17:18

Or, even better...

A chair that knows it's really a hanger.

Is it just me who has a bedroom chair with a mountain of clothes on it?
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ggirl · 18/04/2015 17:21

like those Lweji ! Good idea.

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iHAVEtogetoutofhere · 18/04/2015 17:21

Yes, we all have a bedroom chair.
It is for:
putting the days outerwear on if it can be worn again.
So, kids take off clothes, undies in wash and then top/trousers/skirt on chair. I will have a look and decide if it can manage another wear or needs a wash.
Ditto adults - I will dump my jeans etc on chair. Next day I'll prob decide they need a wash...
also useful for sitting on to put socks on etc.

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ggirl · 18/04/2015 17:21

I prob wouldn't even use the hanging bit on those chairs

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PunkrockerGirl · 18/04/2015 17:21

You are not alone. DH commented on my clothes pile the other day. I pointed out that out of 8 drawers in the bedroom, 6 are his and 2 are mine. Also the top of my wardrobe is used for spare duvets/bedding whilst the top of his is used for his stuff Confused
After 25 years of marriage he had only just cottoned on to the fact that I need some of his more drawer space and that the clothes pile will never diminish until this is rectified Grin

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ggirl · 18/04/2015 17:22

can't sit on mine , too full

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jaynebxl · 18/04/2015 17:22

I absolutely do not have a chair in the bedroom to put clothes on. This is because the clothes piled on the floor are most definitely only there as a very temporary measure, and have been since we moved into this house two years ago.

Crocodopolis · 18/04/2015 18:24

There must be two chairs in my bedroom otherwise the pile of clothes would be resting directly on the floor. Mind you, I can't actually see the chairs - I'm just guessing that they are there.

redcaryellowcar · 18/04/2015 18:36

You are not alone, I'd see the silver lining of this particular cloud that you have space for a chair, if I had a chair my clothes would be on it (most of them) but as it is they are on the floor.

cigarsofthepharaoh · 18/04/2015 18:39

In our last house DP had a clothes sofa. It drove me barmy I like to put them straight on the floor

Mind you, my parents had a whole wall full of chairs (they were all too old to sit on but too had too much "sentimental value" to chuck) which were all piled high with clothes - most of them from when they were in their 20s. So maybe my DCs will be even less slobby...

Elledouble · 18/04/2015 18:42

I did but then found that everything on the chair had weird little white mite things on it Shock so I now put everything back in the wardrobe or in the wash or shove it up on the top shelf of the wardrobe.

nooyearnooname · 18/04/2015 18:44

I have a solution...buy a house where the bedrooms are so small there is no room for a chair! I was just saying to DP this morning how much tidier our bedroom is in our new house than our old house. And then I realised it is because there is not actually any room to make a mess.

The banister rail on the landing on the other hand.....

catnipkitty · 18/04/2015 18:46

Not a chair, but I have 2 piles of clothes, 1 on the floor, 1 on the chest of drawers... If I had a chair it would become a chairdrobe.

BeaufortBelle · 18/04/2015 18:48

Nope. I have a bedroom chair. I put my clothes that will be worn again on it every evening. On Monday it is empty by Friday it is full. It serves the useful purpose of "airing".

My DH puts his stuff away immediately. Funny how his wardrobe has a faint whiff and mine doesn't.

That's because clothes need to be aired before they are put away Grin

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