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Where do you put clothes that 'have got another wear in them'?

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TheLemur · 03/02/2010 16:52

...you know, like big winter jumpers and cardis that you can wear more than once before washing.

I drape them over the linen basket (which occasionally collapses under the weight) and DH stacks them up in a teetering pile on the bedroom carpet

Other people must have this issue too so is there a tidy/elegant solution? Maybe I should dedicate a drawer to them but if I can't see them I'm unlikely to wear them. Hmmm, maybe this is what those smelly drawer liners/sachets were invented for

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displayuntilbestbefore · 03/02/2010 16:54

On a hanger hung on the outside of the wardrobe usually...or draped on the banister if I really want to annoy dh

Cyb · 03/02/2010 16:55

I hang them back up with the others. Doesn't everyone?

notsurewhat · 03/02/2010 16:55

I wear until I wash, hate having piles of clothes everywhere. I will wear one jumper say 3-4 times then wash it

ThingumyandBob · 03/02/2010 18:50

In the wardrobe, or on the end of the bed?.or, very liberating, lately I have given in and taken a leaf out of DP?s book and have been known to throw them on the bedroom floor?

It's a clean floor, no one wears shoes upstairs....

Booyhoo · 03/02/2010 18:51

back in the wardrobe, if they're clean enough to wear again, they are clean enough to go with the rest.

ThingumyandBob · 03/02/2010 18:52

...sorry, I thought I was just posting in housekeeping....just re-read, I see it actually says 'good housekeeping'?.oops

overmydeadbody · 03/02/2010 18:53

back in the wardrobwe or folded in a drawer or (more often) draped over the big armchair in my bedroom who's sole purpose is to have clothes draped over it.

shonaspurtle · 03/02/2010 18:54

I drape them over the bedpost but have been thinking that I should really just put them away as if they're not clean enough to put in the wardrobe/drawers then they're not really clean enough to wear again.

overmydeadbody · 03/02/2010 18:55

but they don't smell theLemur, or they would go in the dirty washing, so I think it's fine to put them back in the drawer.

ExplodingBananas · 03/02/2010 19:02

I think if they've been worn they will have sweat on them, not sure I'd want them back next to clean stuff.

I have a draw under the bed dedicated to once worn clothes, do tend to forget about them though.

Booyhoo · 03/02/2010 19:30

when we get undressed at night OH and i swap clothes and sniff for any odour. if there is any we put it in the wash, if not it's hung in the wardrobe. i never have any problems with fresh clothes smelling afterwards.

SixtyFootDoll · 03/02/2010 19:33

Put them back into drawer wardrobe for next time
Erasing mentsl image of Booy sniffing her husbands socks for odour.

nancydrewrocks · 03/02/2010 19:38

Mine get draped over the slipper bath in the ensuite - it is too small to actually bath in but makes a very fine clothes horse!

displayuntilbestbefore · 03/02/2010 21:07

nancydrew - not for a long time has a post been so beautifully worded.
I salute you for so effortlessly using the phrases "slipper bath" and "very fine clothes horse" in the same sentence!

ja9 · 03/02/2010 21:13

back in wardrobe. dh refuses to do this and so has produced an avalanching mountain of clothes by the end of the week.

(this doesn't annoy me AT ALL) [gritted teeth emoticon]

fruitstick · 03/02/2010 21:20

My DH most bizarrely lays them flat on the bedroom floor, like some kind of crime scene.

I put them on top of the ironing basket nestled by the radiator.

If I had a slipper bath, they would definitely drape there.

nancydrewrocks · 04/02/2010 12:06

fairybubbles · 04/02/2010 12:10

usually on a hanger on the bedroom door, then worn again within a day or two, so not there long. Otherwise back in wardrobe.

nickelbabe · 04/02/2010 12:14

as it's "good housekeeping" i probably shouldn't say, but I do the heap on the floor thing.

good housekeeping, though, would be to have a drawer that's just for things that have been worn but can be worn again.
or at the end of the wardrobe on a hanger.

maybe you could have a chair that they sit on? (i think that's not "good" housekeeping, though)

Buda · 04/02/2010 12:16

Draped over chair in the bedroom. Then they stay there for ages with other stuff dumped on top so they get all creased and then I end up washing them anyway!

bumpybecky · 04/02/2010 12:22

we've each got a chair in the bedroom for worn clothes

sarah293 · 04/02/2010 12:27

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ConnorTraceptive · 04/02/2010 12:27

either draped on a chair in the bedroom or I rehang them in the wardrobe but just put them at the other end away from clean clothes

DH's ijust scoop off the floor and shove in the bottom of his wardrobe until he can be bothered to distinguish between what is clean and what is dirty

Crapweasel · 04/02/2010 12:31

at Thingummy. Do you think we should campaign for a "Housekeeping" topic?

I generally do the floor chair thing but have just invested in a valet stand that I'm fully expecting to change my life.

elliedodger · 04/02/2010 15:30

I have a row of pegs on the back of the bedroom door so I hang them there. I don't like the thought of putting them back in the wardrobe. I know they're not dirty, but they're just not 'fresh' so I like to keep them away from the fresh clothes

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