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

[TheLemur]

...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

Sprawled artistically on the floor.....takes me ages to arrange them for that 'just thrown look'.

We have a little wicker sofa at the end of the bed which is festooned with an enormous pile of DH's once-worn clothes, and a much smaller pile of mine.

Booyhoo i hope your sniff test doesnt include underwear

For those who hang them back in the wardrobe how do you know when they need a clean but are not visibly dirty? I can't always "smell myself" as much as others can IYSWIM, so the sniff test can't be trusted on my own clothes. I like to know that things put away are being worn for the first time after a wash, and things out have been worn before.

Well I actually have a drawer designated for such items . (This has got to be the only time I will ever be able to do that with regard to housekeeping - good or otherwise ). Big think winter cardis do tend to adorn the banister tho.

I do, however, long for a chair in the bedroom but DH says it will become said clothes horse and is being a meany.

A designated drawer! Genius.

I thought that's what the exercise bike was for!

Love this thread. I am not alone. We have a blanket box at the end of the bed. DH folds his nicly. I have an untidy pile at my end. DH also folds our stuff into a shelf. Every 6 months I discover things that I thought I had lost on this shelf! cardigans, fleeces woolly jumper soemtimes on the hooks with the coats! Often I have screwed them up sopn much they end up back in the wash!!

I tend to lie them flat on the floor next to my bed. Then I step on them when I get up, toddler DS carries them around a bit and they end up crumpled and in the wash a few days later without being worn again . I keep telling myself that if I don't put them in the wardrobe then it will end in them being useless, but somehow when I'm knackered at the end of the day it just hardly ever happens.

I'm currenty PG so my wardrobe is packed full with maternity clothes as well as normal clothes - once I've cleared the materniy out, I'm liking this idea of a special end of the rail for worn-once stuff - will I ever hang it up though?!

DH tends to put everything in the wash even if he has hardly had it on - which adds to my laundry levels, but at least it is tidy.

Am I alone in being too tired to start getting coathangers out etc at the end of the day? I am not trying to be funny just genuinely interested. Perhaps I am a slattern as often the clothes are put on the floor by the bed overnight, but the next morning I have a tidy up of any left out from night before back into wardrobe. It's the same with the children's clothes. If you are not careful it can get very messy/time consuming to deal with a buld up of partially worn stuff.

I have a cream folding magazine storage thingy - from ikea cost about £4similar to the biggest one in this link

Mine sits by in my room and I chuck into it any and all clothes that have another wear in them - as its cream it sits unobtrusively in the corner

What's a slipper bath? Is it a bidet?

Booyhoo - I have this lovely image of you and dp routinely passing clothes to each other mid conversation, sniff, yes or no, placing them down, into bed, mags out, passing each other the relevant water etc etc. Like a film of a perfect marriage. There is a film that has this kind of scenario in (minus the sniff test) - I think with Meg Ryan.

I'm with Buda. They pile up either until they all need washing or until the chair falls over backwards.

I think I would put them back in the wardrobe, in a dedicated section of course, except that currently our bed is downstairs and the wardrobe is in the arctic upstairs and I refuse to go up there last thing at night.

And I am so glad it's not just us. I thought we were being horribly skanky, but I refuse to waste money and energy by washing everything after just one wear. Plus I'd run out of clothes.

I LOVE this thread, i have always wondered this myself without ever articulating it to myself or anyone else.

BTW I hand 'em in the wardrobe, and feel slightly bad about it..

I leave them on hangers on the wardrobe doorknobs for a few days overnight so they lose the body heat/humidity and then put them back in the wardrobe/chest of drawers.

At the foot of the bed I have a washing basket and a not quite washing basket. If there's anything in either at the end of the week it gets washed.

DP has a dedicated shelf in his wardrobe. He started using it when I shouted at him after the cable guy had to move a pair of his old jeans (complete with pants inside) of the office chair to work on the moden.

Also glad I am not the only one with this issue

Currently mine/H's are in a ginormous pile on a bar stool in the bedroom. ( I was sitting on the spare bar stool while pregnant and ironing (as little as possible) just to explain it's presence).

It is close to the toppling over stage now, even though I cleared it up put it all in the wash anyway just the other day.

H imagines a wee fairy comes along for his and abandons clothing on the bottom of the bed.

Sometimes I think it would be easier just to chuck most of it in the wash, but it seems so wrong when it's only been on for a few hours.