What do you do with 'only-lightly-worn-not-ready-to-be-washed-yet' clothes?

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Have decided that these are at the root of all our bedroom clutter...and think we need to 'manage' them differently..

You know when you wear a top for a couple of hours or something, and think, "that's not ready for the wash again yet" - so, where do you put it?

In our house, both DH & I, and the kids seem to have a 'pending' clothes pile in each bedroom which just gets bigger and bigger, until in a fit of peak I wash the whole damn lot again .

Problem is I have an aversion to putting 'half-clean' clothes back into drawers or the wardrobe....

Is this mad?

dump them on a chair in corner of bedroom and then wear the top few thing again and eventually put the stuff at the bottom in the wash anyway when its got too crumpled to wear. My excuse is that I'd get confused between clean and half dirty stuff if I put it away.

I have a set of hooks for everyone in their own rooms. Next time I'm choosing clothes I first choose from there (mine or kids).

Every now and then I just take them all and wash them.

I've been wondering about this too lately! It's not such an issue in the summer when I can dry stuff outside, but in the winter I'm trying to make sure that I only wash clothes that are actually dirty. So bottom layer stuff only gets worn once, jeans/jumpers can be worn until they have visible dirt. Both DS's wear vests which are changed daily, but I'm trying to get them to wear their PJ's at least twice. However, I have similar issues to others about putting 'dirty' clothes in the wardrobes/drawers! I worry that somebody else might go in them for some reason, and think that I've not washed them properly or something!

For the DS's I'm considering a worn once box to store things... currently it is the coffee table overnight! I need to put a system in place though as otherwise DH just throws any clothes lying around the lounge (which is where the DS's usually get dressed/undressed) in the washing bin.

Yes- it's mad! If it's not dirty enough to wash it goes back in the drawer, if needs washing it goes on the floor in the laundry basket.

A woman after my own heart! I just couldn't put any worn clothes back in a drawer/wardrobe. Just couldn't.

I have a theory. Tidy people are dirty. When I see pristine houses with no clothes strewn around, and bedrooms just so, I know that they put their dirty clothes away, so I can feel superior and smug knowing that my upstairs may be a total tip, but my drawers and cupboards are grime-free zones.

I too am the not-so proud owner of a towering heap of worn once clothes. As some days I work (uniform) others I am SAHM, and others still I may out with friends etc I end up with several different categories of worn once needed to be worn again before washing.

DS has a pile on his bedroom stool, but his idea of what can be worn again needs refining, as he will come down in filthy clothes if I do not stop him!

An interesting quandry.

Like the OP, I can't bring myself to put lightly-worn things away, but the pile is hideous too and can soon multiply into a tangled jumble of lost/forgotten items.

As a sahm I will wear until needs washing, then I only have minimal stuff on the proverbial chair.

Good theory, fircone! But I am untidy and dirty, I fear.

I change clothes everyday, and wash them so dont have a pending pile. But I am a CM and I would be lucky to have any 'lightly worn' clothes.

Plus I am really anal about having clean clothes on, I dont think I could stand to put on clothes that have already been worn.

I think it comes from growing up in Singapore, where clothes where often changed twice a day.

I have this, I have my outdoors clothes and my indoors clothes, so the first thing I do when I get home from shopping or whatever is change. I fold up clothes and put them in the airing cupboard

Some people (eg my mil...) put coats back in the wardrobe. Coats! That have been worn on public transport, round shops... How gross is that?

We have a coat cupboard but wouldn't put them in wardrobe!

I have separate drawer in my wardrobe as I do school run then come home change into jogging bottoms and hoody to do housework/paint with ds2 aged 2 1/2 /

put nice clothes back on to do school run

Ds1 who can keep his PJs clean stores his in drawer under his bed so he can wear them twice.

I would NEVER put a coat back into the wardrobe with clean clothes. It's the same reason we have shoes off in the house policy -child at school walking on dirty school toilet floor, also husband who uses work's toilets eugh eugh eugh.

Back in the cupboard, on a hanger.