Just needed to be heard for a little while

System

tea_lover wrote: »

Floordrobe.... my OH has one of those.

Lol "floordrobe" love it

I will at some point get around to putting them away i just need to buy a load of hangers

jobbingmusician

My problem IS hangers! I have 2 wardrobes (and thinking of buying new ones to replace them. They are old, very yellow, pine.) I have been reasonably good, since we moved back in, at throwing out clothes. I now have wardrobes which are still full, because where there are no clothes there are clothes hangers quietly breeding. (Except the ones with clips, which hide when you want them.) What do others do with excess clothes hangers? how do you know how many you need?


(Perhaps I should also confess that I am allergic to the 'i' word, and my iron hasn't seen the light of day for a very long time. One way to dry jeans so that they never need ironing is to hang them up by the leg bottoms on 2 clip hangers. Many other things are improved, ironing wise, if they dry with a clip hanger attached to their bottom hem.)


PS Lots of shops will give you hangers if you ask for them.

tea_lover

Hangers do breed, I agree. But only the rubbishy ones that break when you so much as look at them.

You never find extra lovely padded ones appearing in the wardrobe, or the clip ones (where do they go??)

System

I really do need to organise my wardrobe at some point! Its on my list of "things i need to do but keep putting off"

codemonkey

jobbingmusician wrote: »

What do others do with excess clothes hangers? how do you know how many you need?

No idea. I seem to be permanently short of hangers. Perhaps they've come to visit you?
(Perhaps I should also confess that I am allergic to the 'i' word, and my iron hasn't seen the light of day for a very long time. One way to dry jeans so that they never need ironing is to hang them up by the leg bottoms on 2 clip hangers. Many other things are improved, ironing wise, if they dry with a clip hanger attached to their bottom hem.)

Another way to avoid ironing jeans is to buy skinny jeans and wear them with boots.

tea_lover

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

I really do need to organise my wardrobe at some point! Its on my list of "things i need to do but keep putting off"

Snap. I did actually do it not that long ago (well, probably 18 months or so, but it's not like it's been decades). I don't know where the huge amount of cr.ap in there even comes from!

I need to sort out all my clothes (two chests of drawers and a wardrobe) and be ruthless. The drawers aren't too bad but would benefit from a tidy up, but the wardrobe is shocking .

Solarjunkie

Wardrobe suggestion - each time you hang something up, put it on the far right. Eventually, everything on the left you haven't looked at for months or years, so perhaps you don't need it?

I also realised that less than a third of what is hanging up is in regular use. Well, I might need a royal blue silk floor length gown one day! It is gorgeous.

tea_lover

Good idea solarjunkie. Most of the actual hanging up stuff in there isn't too bad, it's the huge piles in the bottom of it that need sorting - eek!!

There's also a really annoying shelf at the top. I keep jumpers there, but it's too tall for me to reach, so everything ends up thrown in as I can't reach it to put things away properly.

I need to think of a better way of using the space. I could put things that get used less often on the annoying high shelf, but then where do the jumpers go??

The bottom is a mess of handbags, slippers, baskets of things like jewellery etc.

Solarjunkie

Tealover - get a step! Same here, high shelf, low me, my jumpers are up there. I have a step by the wardrobe door, I stand on it & I can reach the shelf - magic!
It's the same in the kitchen, we have a kickstep that we found in a bootsale which is a godsend as there is only one (specially installed lower) shelf I can reach otherwise.

codemonkey

I have a 6'4" OH. Who needs ladders? :rotfl: