Plum Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Continuing the toilet paper and towel theme, what do you do with clothes when you take them off. If not ready for washing I'm at a bit of a loss. Tops if worn for an hour or so I hang up inside out. But what do I do with anything else, jeans etc., at present I have piles on the floor cos I don't want to put them with clean stuff. What do you do. I need sorting out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 I tend to leave them hanging over the back of my dressing table chair for when I want to wear them. Or over the foot of my bed. Or on the stool in the bathroom. Messy! Moi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riane Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 socks and undies in the wash bag. tops hung inside out and hung up if not worn for long. Skirts and trousers on radiator folded.Blazers and jackets on back of bathroom door, shower steam helps get the creases out. works for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmommasally Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Generally my t-shirts/blouses would only be worn once and then go straight in laundry bin but if I've only worn them for a couple of hours I would hang in bedroom doorway overnight and then pop back in wardrobe in the morning. Trousers/Jeans/Cardigans I will generally wear more than once before washing so again I hang in door way overnight to air and for creases to drop out then back in wardrobe next morning. The exception to this is my "chicken clothes" which I put on every morning & evening to do chickens/bunnies/torts in - these only get folded and then they're washed at weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Either a - work clothes hung up or shoved over bannister b - garden clothes in heap on floor or shoved over bannister c - casual clothes in heap on floor/shoved over bannister or hung/folded d - dirty clothes shoved in washing bin for the washing fairy (who better get back from holiday soon that thing is OVERFLOWING!) OR Any of the above classes of clothing - shoved over back of dining chairs when stripped off for a dip in the hot tub - underwear hastily moved if anyone drops in!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 If I've only worn something for a short time and it's still clean (i.e. I haven't spilled anything on it!) then I put it away, if I've worn it all day then it goes in the wash basket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Marple Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Either a - work clothes hung up or shoved over bannister b - garden clothes in heap on floor or shoved over bannister c - casual clothes in heap on floor/shoved over bannister or hung/folded d - dirty clothes shoved in washing bin for the washing fairy (who better get back from holiday soon that thing is OVERFLOWING!) OR Any of the above classes of clothing - shoved over back of dining chairs when stripped off for a dip in the hot tub - underwear hastily moved if anyone drops in!!! That's one hell of a bannister!!! Forgot to mention my clothes - pretty much as above without the hot tub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Chook Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 My teenage girls' clothing storage systems are known as the Floordrobes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedusA Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 If it's dirty it definitely goes in the washing basket. If something is "partly worn" it goes on a chair in the bedroom - sort of folded but not neatly. I do sometimes end up with quite a few items on the chair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 and I thought you would all come back with good ideas for me but you are just as bad especially after seeing photos of the inside of your houses that look so 'Ideal Home' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 If it's dirty it definitely goes in the washing basket. If something is "partly worn" it goes on a chair in the bedroom - sort of folded but not neatly. I do sometimes end up with quite a few items on the chair. Ditto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Hmm I have a little pile of clothes (fleece, jogging bottoms) next to my bed. Usually a pair of jeans on the stool at my dressing table ready to be worn again. These are things that have only been worn for a shrot time. My OH likes to use the banister at the bottom of the stairs, the top of the stairs, the floor on the landing, the bedstead, the floor in the bedroom, the towel rail in the bathroom...... you get the picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ana's flock Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Similar to most of you: Underwear, socks and dirty clothes: to the wash. Partly worn and not smelly or dirty: to the enormous pile over the bed rail, over what used to be the rocking chair in the bedroom, now known as Mount Everest, or over something else that I don't remember what type of furniture it was... Sometimes I even find the clothes again, I get some nice surprises when I realised it either fits me again or it's back into fashion... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Clean clothes go away into Wardrobe and drawers, clothes which can be worn again are laid out on my beanbag in my room and dirty clothes go in the dirty tub on the landing! The 'dirty tub' is and old dry rot powder barrel from my Mum's parents house, they're painted with weird birds and flowers and has a plastic bag in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 ... I thought you would all come back with good ideas for me ... Yes I read this thread with hope, but have ended up instead with reassurance! What I don't like is when I'm away and the bedroom has no chair for my still-useable clothes to sit on. Or not enough coat hangers so I can't let things air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Things that have hardly been worn get aired on hangers by the radiator ready for wearing again. I have small pile of jeans and casual top on a chest of drawers, I slip these on when I get in from work. Dirty stuff goes in the laundry basket for washing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty e Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I just shove them back in drawers. Almost nothing gets hung up in my wardrobe as OH has stolen most of the space and I have two large chests of drawers for my clothes. This does however result in the odd musty drawer if something gets shoved back worn into the 'not very popular the moment' drawer. When I stopped fitting into most of my clothes, I dug them all out, sorted them, washed them and put them away in the 'none of it will fit for the better part of a year' chest of drawers. But mostly, putting them away and getting them out again works fine for me. I have one drawer which is specially for tops and cardis that have been worn but could be worn again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I am hugely reassured by you all. I have a bannister too, there's no airing rail in the main bathroom so the lads sling their wet towels over the bannister. When they remember to pick them up off the floor, that is . Half-worn clothes get laid over the chest of drawers in the bedroom ready for a second half-wearing before they get washed. Dirty stuff straight in the laundry bin, along with all dirty underwear. Sometimes the laundry fairy visits and empties the bin, which then magically fills to overflowing within 3 hours . Clean laundry is usually put away if it doesn't need ironing (unless it belongs to one of the lads in which case it lives on whatever surface is available until needed or lost), or added to the ironing mountain, which never ever disappears. I love a pile of clean, ironed clothes. I just can't stand the process of getting them that way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I seem to be someone who puts on a clean outfit and spills something on it so not many clothes make it back for a second showing so to speak but languish in the linen bin or if any not spilt on but used - folded on the cupboard in the bedroom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Chook Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 When they remember to pick them up off the floor, that is . ...hence the name 'floordrobe' I mentioned earlier Caroline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little chickadee Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I have a shelf in my wardrobe for such things. I love my built in wardrobes (came with the house!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I just shake the straw off and dump it all on the back of the chair, ready to put back on again in a hurry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Either b - garden clothes in heap on floor or shoved over bannister c - casual clothes in heap on floor/shoved over bannister or hung/folded I'm glad I'm not the only shoved over the bannister girl! But only for garden/casual clothes. Everything else is hung up or straight in the washing basket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Umm, you wouldn't want to see my room at the moment there are clothes everywhere some still in the suitcase from Scotland, and revision strewn all over the floor Dirty clothes get chucked by the door ready to go in the washing basket when I can no longer get out. Blazer goes on the back of my chair, clothes that aren't really dirty build up on my other chair. And I have some clothes that I only wear to the farm/work experience, so when I get back covered in "muck" they go straight into the washing machine . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 DD has a laundry basket which is usually empty - clean and dirty clothes are always strewn around the floor (but she has got better lately as I refused to do any of her washing for a couple of weeks and she got desperate). DS has a cool box (don't ask) - his laundry basket broke ages ago, and all his dirty clothes are put in the box - clean ones are either on his bed or he actually hangs them up and puts them away. Took a while, but success. Ours - dirty in the laundry basket, not too dirty but good enough for cleaning and gardening hang on the side of our bath. Clean are hung up or in drawers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
