Tell Me About Your Clothes Closet

In My Humble Opinion
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  1. Neat or chaos?

  2. Do you have old clothes you never wear (nor fit), or only what you wear regularly?

  3. How many pairs of shoes; and are you male or female?
    4 Feel free to add any additional info.
    Me:

  4. Neat or chaos?
    Tight, but fairly neat and organized

  5. Do you have old clothes you never wear (nor fit), or only what you wear regularly?
    I should probably throw out, or donate, about half.

  6. How many pairs of shoes; and are you male or female?
    Male, about 15 pairs, of which at least 10 pairs have not been worn in ages and probably also should be tossed, or donated to Goodwill.

  7. The closet was large when we moved here, but as happens, suddenly it is getting full (of crap) that I should start getting rid of.

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  1. I feel a bit silly and anal when I hang up my clothes, but they are very organized. All the way at the end, dresses. Next, long sleeved tops. Then short sleeved tops. Then (you guessed it) no sleeve tops! Finally, skirts and pants. Behind the door where I never see them, jackets and other rarely worn things.

  2. I only have one item of clothing that doesn’t fit: a skirt with a pattern of roses that looks as if it was done by the illustrator of one of my favorite childhood books.
    My wedding dress fits and I could wear it again if I ever had occasion for a long dress, though it seems unlikely.
    I also have a couple of shorter formal dresses which get out of the closet maybe once a year, and I hate both of them anyway.

  3. I’ll say fifteen pairs of shoes, about nine of which get worn with regularity. The three pairs that I use for work live in my car at all times. (I’m female, but you knew that by now).

  4. I am the opposite of a hoarder and love nothing better than to take a load of stuff to Goodwill. I’ll hover over the children and say, “That T shirt seems a little small for you, don’t you think?” with a gleam in my eye. I usually have a bag hidden behind the closet door, slowly filling up with clothes.
    I also love getting bags of hand-me-downs. There’s a lady at work who is a compulsive shopper, and about my size, so once in a while I’ll get something interesting. And if it doesn’t work out, I get to take it to Goodwill.

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Somewhere between neat and chaos. My closet is weird in that it doesn’t have a hanger bar that runs left to right, it has two that run front to back. I guess that’s good in that I can fit twice as many clothes that way.

The clothes in front are things that I wear all the time. The clothes in the back? No idea, but obviously I never wear them. So don’t fit, some are not my style anymore, but at least I don’t have anything in there that’s horribly worn out.

The bottom of my closet is my hamper. That’s 100% chaos except on laundry day. The top of my closet 110% chaos. It has everything from blankets to hats to holiday decorations.

I own maybe 6 pairs of shoes. They don’t go in the closet. They’re scattered about the floor.

Interesting topic. I now have the urge to rearrange the way I do everything in my apartment.

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  1. Neat or chaos?

Chaos. I’ve recently moved and my new closet is too small to fit everything, which doesn’t help.

  1. Do you have old clothes you never wear (nor fit), or only what you wear regularly?

Threw out almost everything I never wear when I moved.

  1. How many pairs of shoes; and are you male or female?

3 pairs. Male. I need new sandals, though.

4 Feel free to add any additional info.

I’m just wondering why I can’t find a decently priced, study, nice looking clothes closet. They’re all either flimsy and ugly or old (second hand) and overpriced.

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I have a huge closet all to myself, one half of it is used for storage of bins that hold clothes for Goodwill/ebay, boxes of pictures and the kids school portfolios(writing/art samples). In the other half I toss my clothes. Slacks and jeans folded on the shelf, shoes on the floor and a few things on hangers. I usually stare into it, seeing nothing to wear except for shoes.

I prefer not to have closet doors, I don’t like the way the look. So I hung up some red silk curtains with colorful embroidery instead from The Company Store

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My hallway closet looks like this. You may be wondering why I have a picture of my closet handy. I took it to show how small my super awesome, high-suction, 100% badass vacuum cleaner is! The only reason the hallway closet looks half decent is because I don’t use it for much. I mainly store coats and laundry stuff in it. Since it’s summer, I don’t have much use for coats these days. Now the closet in my bedroom, on the other hand, which I actually put stuff in and use… well, it’s a complete clusterfuck. I don’t have clothing in it that I no longer wear, and my shoe count is too many.

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  1. Neat or chaos?
    Neat. I have two closets. One has one hanger bar and a high shelf, so dresses go the the right, and blouses go to the left. There’s a shoe rack under the dresses, and a small chest under the blouses for bathing suits, rarely-worn lingerie, anything I don’t want to have to dig through on a regular basis. Boots and handbags go on the shelf.

The other closet has two hanging bars, so suits go on the top and skirts go on the bottom.

  1. Do you have old clothes you never wear (nor fit), or only what you wear regularly?
    I recently did a huge purge, (fourteen big boxes full of clothes!), so at the moment I’m down to what I actually wear.

  2. How many pairs of shoes; and are you male or female?
    Again, big ol’ purge, so I currently have about 30 pairs of shoes.

I also keep most of my daughter’s nicer clothes in my closet, since hers is teeny tiny.

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  1. Neat or chaos?
    Somewhere between.

  2. Do you have old clothes you never wear (nor fit), or only what you wear regularly?
    I’ve been diligently removing things that I don’t need, so the answer is nearly “No”. I realised I had way too many clothes and that lots of them were the wrong size or just not being worn so I have forced myself to be ruthless and throw out what I don’t need. The exception: I do have a shirt that I’ve had for 15+ years that I will never wear again but can’t throw away because I’ve had it for half my life. It doesn’t make sense to me either, but there it is.

  3. How many pairs of shoes; and are you male or female?
    I was going to say two, but then I realised I have other shoes that I hardly ever wear because I hardly ever dress up. Errr… maybe 8? Maybe a couple more than that? Once I’m done with the clothes, I think I need to move on to pruning my shoes down to what I actually use.

  4. I’ve only just moved about eight weeks ago so some things are still finding their homes. Some of my clothes are still packed in a box, which is a great argument for pitching them when I finally do get around to unpacking it.

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Very neat. I don’t have much in the way of clothes. The only thing hanging in my closet is shirts and jackets/coats. If not for the outerwear, my closet would probably only be about 1/3 full. Hoodies and fleece jackets take up a bit of space. I also have a winter coat and a dress coat in there. I still have at least 1/3 of the room left. Most of my shirts are t-shirts and I actually need to get rid of most of them because they’re work stained and I’ll never wear them any more. So, after the next trash day, my closet will be even sadder looking.

Shirts on the right. Jackets/coats on the left, hoodies in the middle.

I clean out the stuff I don’t use regularly. Just this past weekend, I got rid of my 11 uniform shirts because as of tomorrow, I’m unemployed. Other than that, I wear every shirt I own.

I have about 6 or 7 pairs of dress shoes. These are the shoes I rarely wear anymore since I’ve been working in factories for a few years. The dress shoes are packed neatly in a box, under my bed. I just threw out my steel toed boots and sneakers. I have 1 pair of sneakers and 1 pair of flip-flops which I wear all the time.

I have one pair of jeans I never wear, because they don’t fit. I keep them because I bought them and then gained some weight before I ever wore them. One day, I plan on fitting in them again. So, they stay in the drawer with my other pants.

I have two pairs of jeans which I rarely wear anymore - because I haven’t been to work in 3 months. I have a pair of cargo pants and cargo capris and a pair of cut offs which I wear regularly. Other than that, I wear pajama pants (at home - not outside).

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Fairly neat and very organized. Clothes are sorted by type: tops, pants, skirts, dresses, suits, jackets. Then they are sorted by color: Black, white, gray, blue, red, etc. Then, within each color set of shirts, for example, they are “filed” on the rack from lightest weight to heaviest: tanks, t-shirts, long-sleeved light shirts, sweaters, hoodies. It’s a little sick, I know, but this enables me to get dressed in the dark. I do not keep the navy blue section right next to the black section for this reason. Similar colors are separated by contrasting colors.

I try to clean this out at least twice a year, but the hard part is getting all those old clothes to Goodwill. So the give-away clothes (not sorted by color or weight) are neatly folded in stacks in a bin on the floor of my closet. Whenever I buy something new, I pull something old out of the same section.

I have this shoe rack thingy that is completely full, and it holds, IIRC, 30 pairs of shoes. Whenever I buy new shoes, I make myself throw away a pair of old shoes that I don’t wear anymore. Then I don’t have overflow spilling out of the shoe rack. I think I would be surprised at the number of black shoes I have.

I am female.

I should be noted that I have very little bureau/dresser space. I have an antique chest of drawers and a dressing table, so really only about four drawers. Consequently, I hang things in the closet that most people do not hang, such as t-shirts.

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  1. Neat or chaos?
    Not hyper-organized or anything, but the stuff I usually wear and is in season migrates to the middle, while the other stuff moves to the ends, so it is functional. My suits go on the left end, until the bar ripped out of the wall. I moved them to the closet of my left home kid to provide maximum weight reduction before I fixed it.
  2. Do you have old clothes you never wear (nor fit), or only what you wear regularly?
    When my bar came down, and I had to move all the stuff, I started a clothes donation bag for the stuff that no longer fits, or which I decided not to wear. Whenever I run into something like this, it goes into the bag. My problem is more the rarely worn items, like dress shirts.
  3. How many pairs of shoes; and are you male or female?
    5 pairs. Good black shoes, good brown shoes, my boots I wear everyday, and two pairs of athletic shoes, one good and one I use for dog walking. Plus a pair of moccasins. So, clearly male.
    4 Feel free to add any additional info.
    Small metal things on the left for my belts, and I have a couple of tie racks that hang on the bar for the large collection of ties I wear a few times a year at most.
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Female.

  1. Neat. Very neat. My clothes are categorized into dresses, skirts, belts/scarves, short-sleeved shirts, long-sleeved shirts, shorts, pants. And a section of my husband’s clothes. He does not sort by type, and I do not impose my sorting system on him … but they must be neat.

  2. I do have clothes that do not currently fit, but they are in the closet in the spare room. I sort through them twice a year (spring/fall, when I change out the seasonal stuff in my main closet) and give up on a few more each time. They are not totally unrealistic - almost all of them are about a size below where I am now. In addition to not liking to store clutter, I am also pretty frugal, so I have to find a balance between not storing stuff unrealistically and not having to buy a whole new wardrobe if I lose 15 pounds.

  3. I have between 15-20 pairs of shoes. I wear all of them at some point during the year, though I only buy a pair or so a year. I buy very good shoes, not very often, and wear them a long time. They are not very trendy. :slight_smile:

  4. There are currently a lot more clothes in my closet than usual (I am not a clothes horse and usually keep a few quality basic pieces of each kind of clothing and a few interesting shirts from Target or something) because a good friend is losing weight and giving me bags of stuff. I am beyond delighted. Free stuff!

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  1. Neat or chaos? --Neat. I have other things besides clothes in there (suitcases, bed linens, giftwrap) but they all have their place.

  2. Do you have old clothes you never wear (nor fit), or only what you wear regularly? Only what I wear regularly, with the exception of my Suit which is worn almost never but should stay hanging up.

  3. How many pairs of shoes; and are you male or female? My shoes get kept in the mudroom; I’m weirded out by leaving them near clothes. About 15 pairs for summer and 15 for winter. I’m female.

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Neat but misleading.
The sliding door has been broken for quite a while, so I don’t go into the closet. The stuff there is hanging neatly, mostly suits I seldom use and winter coats.
Everything I wear has been snagged out and is in piles or draped over the bedposts.

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People keep clothes in their closets? My closet contains a dresser (mostly empty), a couple of empty boxes from computer peripherals, a small ceramic flower pot shaped like Buddha (?), empty hangers, and dust.

My clothes never make it out of the laundry room in the basement unless I’m wearing them or they’re in the hamper. I wash them, fold them, place them in the laundry basket, and then when I’m ready to get dressed I go downstairs and pick out the clothes I want, take them upstairs, and get dressed. I keep my shoes, all 4 of them, in the closet by the front door.

I once dated a guy who ironed everything, even his shorts and t-shirts, and everything had to be hung facing the same direction, grouped by type and color. It was not a long-lasting relationship.