Staying in the closet

A lot of us have this issue, the problem does exist, and no matter how hard we try, the inevitable always happens.  Whether it is a chair in your bedroom, the foot of your bed, a pile on the floor, or for my mom---her treadmill, it's a big issue that people have a hard time resolving.  When you get home and change, or when you can't decide what to wear and try on different outfits, or when you get ready in the mornings and don't have time to hang up your discarded clothing---they all end up piling up on some piece of furniture in your bedroom or get piled in a designated space on the floor or on your bed. 

Working in retail for many years, I am an avid believer in hanging all of my clothes and I can fold clothes with the best of them, but I still battle with this same issue of keeping my clothes in my closet and drawers.  When I worked at Macy's we would call the clothes in the fitting room that people tried on and needed to be put back: "dump"---wasn't just a clever name.  No one liked putting away "dump".

I have come up with some options to help resolve this never ending cycle of clothing congregations on whatever your designated pile space is:

1.  Wherever your pile is leave some hangers there to help remind you to just hang it up right away to avoid the pile.

2.  Move your pile collection into your closet by putting a hamper for clean clothes in your closet where you can toss your discarded clothing and once the hamper is full---you know it's time to start hanging and folding those bad boys. 

3.  Train yourself to take off clothing---hang clothing, remove pants---fold pants.  We all know how difficult it is to teach an old dog new tricks, so if you know you are untrainable to do this---skip this option. 

If you are thinking that it takes too much time to hang up my clothes right away when I am in a rush to leave to work and I am switching outfits and it is easier to just throw it in a pile and do it "later"---if you think about it---it takes a mere amount of seconds to put a piece of clothing back on a hanger.  As opposed to letting it collect under a pile, which creates more wrinkles, and having to not only hang it up later, but chances are the item will have to be ironed as well which consumes much more time.

4.  Get a small clothing rack on wheels and fill it with hangers.  Instead of creating a pile, hang it on the rack and deal with putting it back in the closet later.  The purpose of this rack is to hang clothes on it, which might make you more inclined to want to hang it on the rack right away instead of having to find a spot in your closet for it.  Also, these racks work great to hang-dry clothes when you are doing laundry or if you are one of those people who like to lay out their clothes the night before you can use this rack to pull your outfit together for the next day.

5.  If you are absolutely unable to do any of the above options and just cannot avoid throwing clothes into a pile, consider joining a nudist colony---you'll never have to worry about clothing again.  Haha. 

The infamous pile chair

Clothing rack on wheels

                           A folding chair that looks like a hanger...function versus form, very clever.