What do you do with pair of jeans that you could wear a couple more times?
How about a tee that you donned for only an hour?
A sweatshirt that isnt quite dirty enough to be laundered, but isnt pristine, either?
These, as it turns out, are burning questions onAsk Metafilter, and people have strong opinions.
Everything that has touched your skin, even for an instant, gets washed.
This is for clean freaks.
You tossed on a pair of jeans to run out to the store and then took them off?
A bra you wore for the ten minutes your neighbor visited?
In the sink with the other delicates.
Everything goes back in the drawer or closet.
For these people, there is no in-between.
There is no purgatory, just heaven or hell.
The disadvantages, though, are manifold: For one, moths.
Clothing moths are hard to eradicate; this system would not work for me.
How will you know when it reaches your own personal threshold for dirty?
Everything gets tossed on the chair.
The chair is only one level better than its close cousin, the floor.
This is the worst possible plan if you have pets and only marginally better if you dont.
Even if you dont have pets, your clothes will get rumpled and wont air out between wearings.
Everything gets tossed on avaletor other freestanding rack.
This solution is fine if you have a bedroom that will accommodate another piece of furniture.
(Mine wont.)
In-between clothes get placed in a dedicated in-between drawer, shelf, or hamper.
The problem of clothes moths remains.
And a dedicated extra hamper is too much furniture for my room, plus things will get rumpled.
6. you might employ an arcane system of your own.
And again, moths.
7. you could hang them over the hamper or on the dresser.
This is fine, but they dont get aired out and will stay rumpled.
Also it looks messy.
You dont want damp things to molder for a week.
Although in an ideal world you would hang them out of sight or wash them immediately.)
8. you’re able to hang them on hooks or a door rack.
In my experience, this is the only thing that works.
But its our best solution for now.
All in-between clothes have their own rack, and elves come daily to run a load or two.
And I dont have to think about a system at all.
