Gaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Need I say more? Never enough hangers, never enough space. Drives me mental.
Anyhow, last weekend took the first steps towards wardrobe switch-over for winter. Sweaters out again, summer dresses packed into boxes. Drawers of socks and tights and long-sleeved t-shirts seeing the light of day for the first time since last March.
Before Nog moved in – and before we started our clothing biz – I had closet and drawer space galore. Never even had to do the switch-over, just used a different closet. But now the closets in our spare room are full of ‘product’ and the second closet in the bedroom is now Nog’s … well okay, mostly his š .
So any day now I’m going to do my annual purge … do you do this too? Any general rules? Like, if you haven’t worn it in two years then out it goes? Or what?
All I know is I need more space and I don’t want to look at another hanger!
casa azahar 
PLEASE let me know if you find some good storage solutions. I do have one tip … put some stuff that you know you should get rid of, but can’t seem to do it, in a green garbage bag. If you go looking for it in the next three months, then you can keep it. If you’ve forgotten what’s in the bag … you have to give the whole bag away.
Good Luck!
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I tend to give anything I haven’t worn in two years to Goodwill. We have only two closets in the whole apartment (the third closet in the hall is where the furnace and the A/c ducts are located), and three dressers, so storage space is a premium. We also have a few little plastic storage bins with drawers and a cardboard chest of drawers in our bedroom closet, for socks and dainties and stuff.
The lack of closet space makes the changeover a real nightmare, as the only stuff hanging in the second closet is suits and dresses and our actual coats- all of the sweaters and fleece tops and flannels and stuff are stored in large plastic bags stacked in the back of the spare bedroom closet.
It drives me insane.
And where DO the hangers go? I wind up buying a set at the dollar store every three months or so. I know we don’t get that many new clothes!!
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My solution is surely not practical for a person who has to be presentable in an office environment. I just don’t have many clothes. There is no real switchover in my closet, either. In the winter I add a layer or two, wearing my usual “uniform” black cotton slacks with a tshirt, only under the slacks I put a set of polypropylene (used to be silk) long johns, over the tshirt a sweater or sweatshirt. I do have winter boots, which live on the shoe rack in the utility room all the time, I just wear them instead of my birkenstocks. I’m sure I’m not much help to the rest of you. My good dresses, I have two, I wear winter or summer. they are both silk, classic styles that are never “in” style and never “out” either. If it is cold, I wear a coat. If it is summer, I bring a stole because the air conditioning is probably going to make me require it. Jim has a LOT more clothes than I do.
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I wear silk long johns! (When long johns are needed- hasn’t happened in chicago in at least ten years, though…)
Indeed, part of my problem is having to look “presentable” in the office, at least Mon- Thurs (Fridays are jeans & gym shoes days).
But I do have to say that I am really uncomfortable in anything linen, and in pants with elastic waist bands. Blue jeans or cords for me, thanks!
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Hmmm…was that last sentence meant for the other blog? ‘Things to do …’? š
Hi L&S, nice to meet you. Your suggestion is a good one and probably applies to about half the clothes I own.
It’s definitely time for another purge. Last one was two years ago when Nog moved in – at least four big green garbage bag’s worth (also ‘purged’ most of what Nog brought here with him).
I’ve got four of those plastic storage boxes on wheels under the bed and I have no idea what’s in one of them (one has the aforementioned summer dresses in it and the other two are used for storing sheets and towels). Perhaps I should go out for a couple of hours and let Nog get rid of what’s in the mystery box as well as all the stuff I’ve stored in his closet.
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That might be a good idea. I “accidentally” gave away a box of work clothes a couple of years ago, when K moved in, to make room for hsi stuff. Other than one or two short-sleeved turtlneck shirts I’ve since been unable to find and wish I still had, I have no idea what else was in the bag, and don’t seem to have missed any of it.
Once I peek inside the bag/storage box, I say “oh, no, I can’t get rid of this!”. Then back into storage it goes, never to be seen again…
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(Sorry about the typos. Why the heck would it make any difference that I’m typing in the dark, when I touch type?)
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