How to Make the Most of Your Wardrobe and Time with Organization
Set aside a distinct space for each functional category of clothes., Use hangers for items that need to hang to avoid wrinkles, such as cotton shirts. , Use any space for items that do not need to hang., Make a habit of removing clothes to wear from...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Set aside a distinct space for each functional category of clothes.
The clothes in each category should be essentially interchangeable.
For a man in a white-collar job, the largest categories might be dress shirts, dress pants, suits, ties, briefs, socks, t-shirts, casual pants, and casual long-sleeve shirts. -
Step 2: Use hangers for items that need to hang to avoid wrinkles
, Hangers are effective but consume much space and, depending on one's proficiency in folding versus hanging, time.
A deep shelf or drawer with a tilt-up front is better than a regular drawer because items can be slid out of the bottom rather than requiring an entire stack to be lifted to access its last item. ,,,, Clothes on shelves do not stack well on end.
Instead, make a series of short stacks and move the stacks from one side to the other as earlier stacks are depleted. , Small items such as socks and underwear can go in a single-purpose bin.
A bottom-emptying hopper would be better, but the bin can simply be mixed or its contents turned over from time to time. (If the general public is commenting that you wear the same underwear too often, the belt or suspenders queue has gone wrong
-- check on it.) , Belts can be taken off one long peg or loop to be worn, and returned to another.
When that peg runs out, take them off the other one and return them to the first as they are gone through., Ties can similarly be moved from one side to the other of a multi-tie rack. , Clothes that can be worn more than once should be worn a day or two apart, with new clothes in between, not twice in succession.
Once-worn clothes should be kept in a different area to air out without transferring volatile dirt to clean clothes. , The precise order of washing, sorting, folding and returning clothes to queues does not matter so long as all of the clothes are washed and folded at once, or the dirty-laundry and unfolded-clothes piles are periodically inverted to retrieve items lingering at the bottom of stacks.
A suspended clothes net, bin, or other bottom-opening hopper could solve this problem more elegantly. , -
Step 3: such as cotton shirts.
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Step 4: Use any space for items that do not need to hang.
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Step 5: Make a habit of removing clothes to wear from the same end of any given queue (such as the right side) and adding freshly cleaned ones to the other end (such as the left side).
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Step 6: If an item in position to be used is somehow unsuited to that particular day's wearing
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Step 7: take the next one from that end that is suitable.
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Step 8: If a closet rod has obstructions that prevent clothes smoothly
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Step 9: simply return hangers to the side they were taken from and move the clothes in the closet over only when clean clothes are added.
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Step 10: Make short stacks.
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Step 11: Find places for small things.
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Step 12: Hang belts.
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Step 13: Hang ties.
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Step 14: Maintain space between unwashed clothes wearing.
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Step 15: Find your own washing and storing method.
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Step 16: Repair or remove from duty any item of clothing that appears worn out or badly damaged.
Detailed Guide
The clothes in each category should be essentially interchangeable.
For a man in a white-collar job, the largest categories might be dress shirts, dress pants, suits, ties, briefs, socks, t-shirts, casual pants, and casual long-sleeve shirts.
, Hangers are effective but consume much space and, depending on one's proficiency in folding versus hanging, time.
A deep shelf or drawer with a tilt-up front is better than a regular drawer because items can be slid out of the bottom rather than requiring an entire stack to be lifted to access its last item. ,,,, Clothes on shelves do not stack well on end.
Instead, make a series of short stacks and move the stacks from one side to the other as earlier stacks are depleted. , Small items such as socks and underwear can go in a single-purpose bin.
A bottom-emptying hopper would be better, but the bin can simply be mixed or its contents turned over from time to time. (If the general public is commenting that you wear the same underwear too often, the belt or suspenders queue has gone wrong
-- check on it.) , Belts can be taken off one long peg or loop to be worn, and returned to another.
When that peg runs out, take them off the other one and return them to the first as they are gone through., Ties can similarly be moved from one side to the other of a multi-tie rack. , Clothes that can be worn more than once should be worn a day or two apart, with new clothes in between, not twice in succession.
Once-worn clothes should be kept in a different area to air out without transferring volatile dirt to clean clothes. , The precise order of washing, sorting, folding and returning clothes to queues does not matter so long as all of the clothes are washed and folded at once, or the dirty-laundry and unfolded-clothes piles are periodically inverted to retrieve items lingering at the bottom of stacks.
A suspended clothes net, bin, or other bottom-opening hopper could solve this problem more elegantly. ,
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