Organization and stuff
Aug. 27th, 2013 06:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rusty76I like putting together cute outfits, and I have a surprising amount of clothes for someone who hates to shop, but I hate hanging up clothes. Thus, most of my wardrobe ends up strewn across the foot of the bed/end of the chaise in the bedroom, which is impractical to say the least. I have a walk in closet that currently isn't, because in my brain it's basically a room to shove crap to get it out of sight of the main rooms.
It doesn't help that the way the bedroom/bath/closet is laid out one has to walk all the way through the bedroom and bath to get to the closet, via a narrow door at the far end of the bathroom. Plus, it has poor circulation, so anything not perfectly dry gets musty, and everything gradually picks up a funny odor. Thus leading to more laundry...
So maybe this is an obvious solution, and maybe it's a childish one, but I love it so much I can't believe I didn't do it before. It is progressively reducing the clothes-crazy to beautifully manageable levels.
Because it was so inconvenient to dress/undress in the closet area, everything built up in the aforementioned '(in)convenience area' of the foot of the bed/over the chair. Clothes coming out of the dryer than needed hanging got strung on hangers in the dining room (no room in the laundry area, b/c basically a closet with machines and litterboxes) and carried into the closet later, if at all.
You guys, this is a really long way of saying, I bought a small rolling rack to hang clothes on, and no joke it is changing my life. I wash clothes. I damp dry them. I pull them out of the dryer and hang them on the rack, which I then roll back to the bedroom and stage into outfits for each day of the week, with the drip dry stuff on the end.
It is a thing of practical beauty and reminds me once again, that the right damn tool will make your life so much easier.
log: 1.0M, 30m
It doesn't help that the way the bedroom/bath/closet is laid out one has to walk all the way through the bedroom and bath to get to the closet, via a narrow door at the far end of the bathroom. Plus, it has poor circulation, so anything not perfectly dry gets musty, and everything gradually picks up a funny odor. Thus leading to more laundry...
So maybe this is an obvious solution, and maybe it's a childish one, but I love it so much I can't believe I didn't do it before. It is progressively reducing the clothes-crazy to beautifully manageable levels.
Because it was so inconvenient to dress/undress in the closet area, everything built up in the aforementioned '(in)convenience area' of the foot of the bed/over the chair. Clothes coming out of the dryer than needed hanging got strung on hangers in the dining room (no room in the laundry area, b/c basically a closet with machines and litterboxes) and carried into the closet later, if at all.
You guys, this is a really long way of saying, I bought a small rolling rack to hang clothes on, and no joke it is changing my life. I wash clothes. I damp dry them. I pull them out of the dryer and hang them on the rack, which I then roll back to the bedroom and stage into outfits for each day of the week, with the drip dry stuff on the end.
It is a thing of practical beauty and reminds me once again, that the right damn tool will make your life so much easier.
log: 1.0M, 30m
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Date: 2013-08-27 11:55 am (UTC)Side note: I have to know what the damp-drying thing is about! Is it to save energy? Not have the dryer running all day? Why not put things in the dryer?
(Granted, I basically only read the washing instructions when I buy something, to see if it can go in the dryer, and then never again. And we've already established that laundry is not one of my strengths).
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Date: 2013-08-27 02:22 pm (UTC)