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How do you store clothes?

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mrsmopp Thu 09-Oct-14 23:33:04

Do you take out all your summer things now and just have autumn and winter things in your wardrobe? I would have a lot more room if I did that. We have so many clothes these days don't we? The time was when a double wardrobe and a dressing table held the lot! That's before we start talking about all those shoes!!

Grannyknot Sun 23-Nov-14 15:51:54

Crikey. My "summer clothes" would fit into a backpack, so they stay in the wardrobe. Our shared built in wardrobe is two thirds full of husband's clothes and the rest is mine.

And: pompa shock ! smile

janerowena Sun 23-Nov-14 17:08:15

I have a room just for my clothes.

There. See how simple it is? grin

Actually it's not that simple, I have quite a few functions every year where I have to dress up. I have specific types of outfit that I have to wear for two different choirs. Each demands different outfits again for xmas and Easter concerts if held in churches. I have gardening clothes for all weathers. And a very active social life.

However, DBH has even more outfits than me (dress shirts and djs for concerts, loads of outfits for athletics and hockey, cricket and what have you) and keeps his clothes in our bedroom. This is because if I let him have the dressing room, it would be one giant floordrobe. At least I can glare at him if he gets into bed without putting away his teetering tower-of-Pisa-like mound of clean clothes. One day though maybe I will have had enough and he will come home and find that I have swapped them all over.

crun Tue 09-Dec-14 13:18:17

"I leave them on the floor and they magically appear in my wardrobe."

I need a wife, I leave them on the floor but they just stay there. smile

Tegan Tue 09-Dec-14 13:40:16

Mine tend to gather on the floor and I have to turn them inside out and shake them for fear of spiders lurking shock. I'd love a walk in wardrobe. Perhaps if and when my kids move all of their stuff out of my house one of the rooms will become one. I'm a messy person that longs to have everything colour coordinated and arranged nicely.

MargaretX Tue 09-Dec-14 15:32:32

I put expensive wollen jumpers and jackets in one spare wardobe and put something in against the moths. Mainly I refuse to buy another wardrobe just like we won't buy another Billy(IKEA) bookcase. If we buy new then we have to throw something away. Some say if you've not worn it in 2 years then turf it out. Apart from Black. You can always wear that again sometime even if its for a funeral.
When I came to Germany over 40 years ago with a trunk and 3 suitcases, the summer was very hot. I had one dress on and another in the wash, my DD1 aged 3 wore nothing but little shorts. Such an uncomplicated way of life, which I didn't appreciate.