Tights

kacie

How does everyone store tights, I have loads of pairs that I use throughout winter, but they just keep getting spread out everywhere, do you have a method that works for keeping tights in one places and easy to just pull out one pair?

grunnie

I roll mine up and fold over the end so it looks like a little ball. Then i put them into a box in a drawer. Neat and tidy.

PasturesNew

I just keep them up one end of a drawer.

An alternative for you to consider might be what I do with my assortment of hats, gloves, scarves, neck warmers and lightweight kagouls/pack-a-macs. I found I never had anywhere specific for them, so, having got home and taken them off they could be in many places. I solved that by simply having a "winter bag", which is a 40p Aldi bag for life. Any hat/scarf/gloves found round the house has a place to go - in that bag. And, as it has a place to go it's easy to then put things where they belong. The bag can be kept anywhere out of sight/handy.

If I know I am going out and it's wet, or cold, I go to the bag and can easily paw through to drag out the bits I want that day.

kacie

PasturesNew wrote: »

I just keep them up one end of a drawer.

An alternative for you to consider might be what I do with my assortment of hats, gloves, scarves, neck warmers and lightweight kagouls/pack-a-macs. I found I never had anywhere specific for them, so, having got home and taken them off they could be in many places. I solved that by simply having a "winter bag", which is a 40p Aldi bag for life. Any hat/scarf/gloves found round the house has a place to go - in that bag. And, as it has a place to go it's easy to then put things where they belong. The bag can be kept anywhere out of sight/handy.

If I know I am going out and it's wet, or cold, I go to the bag and can easily paw through to drag out the bits I want that day.

I have one of those bags, hats gloves and scarves are in it.

Rolling up tights might work, guessing you roll toe end up and have the waist part to fold over?

Janey3

I use the bottom half of a shoe box for my tights and socks, rolled into balls as mentioned above. Luckily the box fits into a dressing table drawer, but you could put it on the wardrobe floor.

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I fold the toes up to the top and then fold again a couple of times and fold in half then stick them in a drawer one behind the other, I do the same sort of thing with my knickers, pull the clean ones to the front and then put the newly washed ones to the back.

Siebrie

My tights and stockings are folded three or four times, and then the waist is pulled over the legs, so that I have a nice flat package. These are stored in an ikea skubb (those little cubby holes) hanging from the rail in my wardrobe. Tights with tights, stockings with stockings.


My ikea skubb holds (top to bottom):
panties
handkerchiefs
socks
tights
stockings, pop socks, knee-highs, cotton ankle socks

maman

I'm not a huge lover of tights but I do wear opaques when it gets colder. First I'd say keep 'current' tights to a minimum. Store brand new pairs or those worn occasionally (like sheers for special occasions) separately from those you'll need every day. Make sure you regularly discard any tatty ones. I roll mine and keep them in a basket on a shelf in my wardrobe. What I have done is sew some coloured thread inside the waistband of my navy ones so I don't confuse them with black on dark mornings.

Most of our gloves, scarves and hats are in a chest of drawers in the hall near the front door rather than in the bedroom. I did a Marie Kondo on the scarves and roll/fold them and then stand on end (difficult to describe) so they can all be seen, gloves and hats are in large mushroom punnets (washed of course;)). Folding umbrellas are in there too.