Tidy Tips? How are your drawers or shelves or anything?

Knickers are thrown in the knicker drawer. The matching bras are sort of folded in the bra drawer. Haven't tried rolling towels, but I don't think it would work particularly well in our airing cupboard. The wardrobe is divided into skirts trousers and jackets. If it's co-ordinated it's only because a lot of my clothes are the same colour!

I think harrigran could give all us slobs a lesson on sorting our stuff into colour co-ordinated, size and season appropriate order. Now there's a thought.

Ana. You are definitely a girl (gran) after my own heart!

Life is far too short to be spent tidying although maybe if I were a bit more organised I would not have had to spend most of yesterday digging out the conservatory.
I think I am in the slobs group !

I'm always reorganising my methods of storage - Pinterest has great ideas. It drives DH mad.

I have a dressing room.

I throw things into it as I dash past.

I sort it all out about three times a year.

Two weeks later it looks just as bad.

I used to be very neat and tidy. Now that I have more time, I am less tidy. I think I just got fed up with having to be organised. I'm on a break.

I don't even have any face flannels, never mind ironing them!

What's all this rolling towels up malarkey? I just fold them and shove them in the landing cupboard (having only one bathroom to worry about )

OMG it is a slob's house here I think. Anybody fancy coming here for a couple of months to sort it all out?

I am a lost cause.

I am also queuing up to join the Untidy Mob. Every so often I have a bit of a blitz, but things never stay up to scratch for long. I make resolutions to keep on top of things, but then life has a way of coming along.

All I can say is Aaaargh!! I never iron or even fold my knickers, just dump them in the drawer and take out the pair that seems most fitting to my mood in the morning. They do not match my bras, which I do not change every day, I might add. My coat hangers are usually on the rail in the same direction because it's easier that way, but none of my clothes storage is colour-coordinated.

annodomini, my DD did that too at a very early age

MiniMouse, move over, I'm coming to hide too.

Oh anno you sound like me. I have a blitz on the kitchen cupboards every so often. My clothes generally hang in the wardrobe and my drawers are tidy. I loathe housework and only do it very grudgingly. As long as it's fairly tidy and more or less dust free DH doesn't seem to mind.

phoenix I must be a bit dense today. Please tell me what is the significance of 'Dagenham'?

Of course there's a place for everything, but sometimes I forget where that place is. When the DSs were little, if they saw me rushing around tidying and hoovering, they would say, 'Who's coming, Mum?' Oh dear, Plus ca change.

I'm just about to email people about the next Family History meeting - which has to be HERE.
Never mind, I shall panic next week. Not now.

There's great comfort to be found in the saying, "Tidy house, empty mind!" I'm going away to hide now . . . . .

Some of these posts sound Dagenham to me!

I start off with 'a place for everything' - so why don't they stay there?

I agree but then i realised that my chest on the landing has a drawer for the linens for each of the bedrooms and a spare deep drawer for extras! All towels are rolled (tightly like Mary's Swiss rolls) on shelves in their specific bathroom but I have been known to take my jewellery to a friend for her to unravel it!

Ah, but there's more to life than having tidy drawers, vampirequeen.

OMG I thought I was organised but I'm positively slovenly compared to you lot.

Teehee most of you tidy ones are like the dandy my husband, who says that I subscribe to 'chaos theory' (but I do know where my things are).

I like my stuff in fabric "baskets" that I take out and put on the bed and find what I need: t shirts, knickers, bras and vests are stored like that, also scarves. Most other things are rolled up in drawers or on shelves: leggings, slacks etc. What hangs up doesn't even fill one side of a wardrobe. I only ever own about 3 or 4 coats or jackets, which I replace after a few years when I get bored with them. Shoes I keep to a minimum too. You've only got one pair of feet!

Well, all I can say is,

I like to think I am a tidy person and have all my clothes hanging in colours that match according to season, shoes are kept in boxes they where bought with and boots have boot hangers to keep them in good shape.

I am very tidy - wont bore you and me with too much detail but I do have all the same hangers facing the same way in the wardrobes and all my underwear which is always matching bra and knicker sets (always wear underneath the same colour that's on top e.g. red dress red underwear) are folded together - knickers into bra cups and then lined up in colour order in the drawer. Clothes are all washed when taken off. everything except towels, socks and underwear gets ironed. Housework is done daily with a blitz twice a week. Golf clubs and shoes all cleaned each time we play.

Do you live in Beverley Hills, harrigran? I thin I've seen you on The Real Housewives.