For some reason, I find it a bit distasteful to fold the clothes I’ve worn once and put it back in the drawer. However, if I’ve worn something just once and did not do anything funky, I don’t think it merits a whole new wash. So these things go on a chair in the corner of the room. I have an aunt who has a stationary bike that serves this same purpose. How 'bout you?
If not, do you put worn clothes back in the dresser or closet? And, most importantly, do you have a more better way of dealing with I-can-wear-this-again clothes?
I have a wooden peg board on the wall between my Dresser and a bookcase. Also 3 hooks over the door to our bedroom. Pants almost always get multi-day use. But I also hang up 5 clean t-shirts for the week when I do the wash.
Well, it’s not a chair. I have a sewing table that gets next to no use for sewing, but I put all the clothes that need dealt with there, and I end up draping the clothes for rewearing there as well.
In fact, it is a chair. But it’s a chair I use pretty often, so what I actually have is an “I can wear this again” pile that migrates from horizontal surface to horizontal surface, whichever surface isn’t being occupied by my body. Usually alternating between aforementioned chair and a corner of my bed.
The footboard of my bed hangs stuff that is good enough to wear around the house a day or two more. Sometimes it good enough for a trip to the store. When it gets too much cat hair on it I put it down into the hamper. I never get stuff out of the hamper.
I have what was sold as a tie / belt rack accessory that clips to the wireframe shelving. About like this:
Mine is installed in my part of our master closet and right now is holding zero ties, 3-5 belts, and about a half dozen pants or shirts or sweatshirts. If I change into fancy slacks to go out to dinner, wear them 3 hours, then come home and take them off again I’m sure not running them to the dry cleaners to be expensively abused until they’ve been worn to a couple more fancy meals. Many days here have shorts part of the day & long pants other parts, or include sweatshirts in the pre-dawn cool, but not during the day. Etc.
My late first wife and I each had one in our part of the closet. We called it the “half-worn rack” and the stuff on it was “My half-worns”. Which is really the point. Stuff should be re-worn until it’s been worn enough to need laundering whether due to outside dirt or personal sweat/stink. For nasty sweaty work that might not even be an hour. For indoors in a cool or cold winter pants might be good for 5 full 12+ hour days.
My new wife is Simply Appalled at the very idea. But tolerates me doing it. With some genteel shuddering from time to time in case I get any ideas about expanding the practice.
I have a set of hooks on the bedroom door. Everything goes on a hook and then once a week, most of it comes off and is laundered or dry cleaned, so it never gets unmanageable. (though I’ve had a hoodie on one hook for about 6 months- not dirty enough to clean, but no occasion to wear)
Weirdly, I was just thinking of how I re-wear clothes today, and then saw this thread. I have an extra dresser in my closet, and the clothes I deem re-wearable get piled on that.
Thar’s what the floor around the hamper is for.
Definitely stinky/dirty stuff goes into the hamper. Things useable in an emergency hang over the edges, halfway out, halfway in. Things worn, but not that much, are on the floor around it, so they will be gathered into the next laundry event, but can be used, if convenient.
It’s not a chair, but yeah. Pants and skirts get reworn several times before getting tossed into the hamper, and at the same time I don’t like to wear the same thing day after day. So I have a few out and they get alternated. Topwear, not (armpit smellies), nor sox or undies.
I have a beautiful old chest-of-drawers that has two doors which close over the top four drawers. I drape wear-it-again stuff over the door if it’s hang-it-up stuff, or fold it neatly on top if it’s fold-it-stuff.
I have a hamper in my bedroom for lightly worn clothes that i plan to wear again before washing. They are piled loosely, so they get air. And if it happens to be laundry day, that stuff usually goes in along with the stuff in the dryer clothes hamper.
Hooks in the closet. I change out of my work dresses into my barn clothes as soon as I get home. Barn clothes are good all week, if nothing heinous happens to them.
Ditto on hooks in the closet. One whole wall of closet is hooks (because it is a walk-in closet but too small to have hangers on both sides. I hang my sleepwear, my lounge wear, my grungy yardwork clothes, and my current pair of trousers, and the ones in the back are where I’ve stuck things that I don’t know what to do with. The back of the bedroom door has hooks for hanging things to dry that don’t go in the dryer.
I wear my my shirts several times, because since I retired I don’t wear shirts all day but only for an hour or two when I’m out. Between wearing, I always hang them on hangers with dust covers over them, because I don’t know when I’m going to wear them again and I am allergic to dust.