Hooks over the back of closet and bedroom doors for things like sleepwear, exercise wear, jeans and t-shirts that are getting daily-ish use. For other clothing that’s been worn but not dirty enough to need washing right away (i.e., pretty much everything but socks and underwear), there’s a system.
Namely, worn-since-last-washing clothes occupy a designated end of the closet or drawer row. When I grab a shirt or skirt or pants out of the closet in the morning, its empty hanger is moved to the far end of the row. When I take it off and hang it up, it’s in “most recently worn” position. Folded shirts, tops, sweaters etc. likewise go into “most recently worn” position in their drawer (after hanging up to air out overnight).
Then when it’s time to do laundry, I collect everything in the dirty-clothes hamper and on the frequent-use hooks, and check everything in the worn-since-last-washing area at the end of the rows. Some of those items are still fine to be worn some more before the next laundry day comes around.
(Yes, I understand that a lot of people don’t have space or time to air-dry clothing, or need to wash their clothes more often because of skin issues or sweat levels or because it just feels icky to do otherwise, I sympathize with your constraints and you should stick with whatever laundry practices you personally feel best about, don’t @ me bro)
Being retired and not particularly social, I almost only go out for doctor appointments, grocery shopping, and the occasional errand. As a result, I only wear my “outdoor” clothes for a few hours at a time, and that only once or twice a week at most. Between wearings I drape them over a bookcase near my bed. When they become stained or in other ways acquire “funk” they go into the wash, but this can take as long as a month.
My usual “bumming around the house” clothes are pocket t-shirts and drawstring cotton pants. Obviously these get changed and washed more often. but I’m a lot less fussy about staining and “funk” for them because I’m the only one who is exposed to them.
When I read the thread title, I thought the OP was literally wearing chairs on their back.
Anyway, I do, yes. If an item of clothing is too dirty to wear to bed, but still clean enough that I could wear it for something like jogging, exercise, yard tasks, I’ll keep wearing it so as to not keep adding new loads of laundry.
Feels like I’m being whooshed. Isn’t that normally just called the floor? I’m having trouble visualizing that, so you keep your somewhat clean cloths on the floor?
I do not judge, least I be judged. But at least now I can go back to bed without wondering about ground level shelves the rest of the night. TY. I too utilize my ground level shelves and have learned a new term for them.
The one in the bedroom is technically an ottoman. The one in the great room is called a couch and my wife is getting tired of telling me not to leave my shirts on it.
I have a small dresser with very small drawers. In it are socks and dainties.
I put reusables on top of that. It’s usually my hoodie and PJ bottoms or shorts. Tshirts and undies and socks worn that day go in the dirty clothes hamper.
Unless I spill my hoodie is worn for about 3 days.
Pet hair can be a problem some days.
We have a chair that we hang stuff on. I’m wearing some previously worn sweats right now! (I didn’t actually sweat in them.) Mr Rebo also has a small table that he puts shorts and jeans on. I rehang work clothes if I haven’t spilled food on them. I’ll re-wear pants several times, shirts a couple of times. Washing just wears clothes out faster.
Of course I have a clothing chair. I’ve always had one. The current one is a nice wooden chair, the sole survivor of our previous dining room set.
The only problem is that clothing seems to pile up on there. Every three months or so we just dump the entire contents of the chair into the washing machine, to start a clean slate.
the cat sleeps on the bedroom chair. clothes go on the wall or door hooks, mostly jeans and hoodies. i usually wear a blazer/jacket or hoodie with my jeans.
jackets go on a hanger on a piece of furniture my grandmother made to air. after a day or two the jackets go to the chifforobe from my aunt. newly laundered item go in the closet.
i keep an emergency sweatshirt and jeans on the door for wee hour evacuate emergencies.
Yeah, I fold (sort of) my jeans and my outer shirt (almost always a fleece pullover) and leave in the corner in the master bath.
I work from home, so don’t care that I have the same ‘look’ for 4 or so days in a row.
I wear my jeans a few times so they go on a hook on the bathroom door. Shirts usually are only worn once and go in the hamper. If I wear a sweater or flannel shirt over another shirt that goes back on its hanger.
We are approaching the multiple outfits in one day season here in MN. It happens in the spring and in the fall on days off. It’s chilly in the morning so I put on jeans, sweatshirt or long-sleeved T. By noon it has warmed up so the original top I put on is replaced by a short-sleeved T. Within a few hours it might get warm enough for shorts and a tank. Sometimes I can start changing in reverse order as the day wears on. Those clothes will end up on the bathroom door hook. Sometimes because it stays cold or warm for multiple days, certain items might not get worn again for days or weeks. Eventually I get sick of looking at them and they end up in the hamper to be washed.
Treadmills are for bags and boxes of clothes my wife doesn’t wear anymore but doesn’t want to get rid of. The recumbent bike would work for I-can-wear-this-again clothes if the treadmill wasn’t in the way.
