Storing off season clothing

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And even someone as stupid as you should have noticed that killfiles work without announcing their content.

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I guess I am guilty of making assumptions. I have a family of six and a shortage of closet space, so off-season clothing is stored. I did the same as a child under my mother's direction.

Time usage is not a major factor for me. The clothing will be stored somewhere anyway, so I use the time normally used to hang it in the closet or put it in a drawer to put it in the trunk.

I attempt to keep up with the mending as the damage occurs. (Six person family, some work away from home, some attend school, and I work at home as a combination farmer/ seamstress/ mother/ wife/ housekeeper.) Not always possible and loose buttons can easily be missed, so I check garments before storing for the next season. ;^)

I do something similar. I put clothing into the closet on the right of the rail, pushing existing clothing left. Garments on the left of the rail, come season change that I have no memory of wearing at all, are the first candidates for the donation box.

Really!?!?! LOL Please forgive an attempt to help folks organize a task that need doing in most temperate climates. ;^o

In your world, what is the meaning of the letters OCD?

Agreed. Though I often wish I was as organized as these symptoms listed above. If you can not find something, then it is the same as not owning it. In the long lost ten years of living alone, I knew where everything was because I was the only person using the tools or what ever. Now I have a husband and four children, rules are being made about suitable locations to leave tools and other items.

Another disorder possibly in your world would be my habit of trying to pick up something from the area I am leaving that belongs in the area I am going. For me, this is a way to attempt at keeping order in the house and on the farm. It is also a way to keep from making more trips than necessary, walking is a problem for me. Too many trips back and forth are a waste of time and energy for anyone.

OP?

The 'elaborate organization' was described in order to be clear in intent. These newsgroups are read by folks all over my country and other countries. I am well aware, having moved from the Mid-West to the Old South, that there exist variances in use of language. I was attempting to be very clear.

Vandy Terre snipped-for-privacy@tanglewood-destiny.com wrote

Absolutely classic OCD.

You'll get one hell of a surprise when you discover who gets to pick your nursing home.

Or you could actually get a clue and realise how much time and energy you keep wasting with your OCD.

Original Poster. You.

All you made clear is that you have one hell of a problem with OCD.

Vandy Terre snipped-for-privacy@tanglewood-destiny.com wrote

No it doesnt. Anyone with a clue has enough closet space so they dont have to fart around like that every time the seasons change.

I lose things regularly. I'm dyslexic, and one of its manifestations for me is a short term memory problem: I put things down and my brain edits them off the planet. If I and others in the house don't put things away properly when they are finished with, I cannot find them and hours are wasted looking. Unfortunately I live with two untidy blokes, one of whom is my similarly afflicted 12 YO son! A certain level of obsessive putting away of things and periodic blitzes of the corners helps keep things under control, but if anyone knows where my Victorinox vegetable peeler is, could they please send it home?

I also try to do this because we have so much stuff lying about that if I didn't, we'd lose the furniture in the mess, never mind the carpet... I don't worry about the number of trips made: my fibro means I really have to keep moving regularly, even when it urts, so an extra trip to fetch something or put it away is a good excuse for a little more exercise...

I think you were. OP means Original Poster - the one who started the thread. Personally, I need to be a lot closer to that level of organization than I am now, but without getting anal about it. It's just nice to walk all round the dining table without tripping over STUFF left out by other people, or to be able to hoover the living room without a marathon 3-day tidying event first! Part of the trouble is over 3000 books, nearly 20 sewing machines, and 56 boxes of sewing stash...

I take it that you are at odds with the idea of 'a place for everything and everything in its place' at the end of the day. Poor you - you must waste a hell of a lot of time looking for stuff that, if you kept the place tidy, you could put a hand to without even thinking about it. This is how I like to be, but I don't always achieve it. I don't belittle those who are as I would like to be. I don't have enough clothes to bother with the storage problem for them, but I do exactly the same sort of thing with my seasonal use items like the jam cauldron and the jelly straining bag, the fish kettle and the Christmas pudding bowls, my mincemeat jars and other seasonal kitchen items: when not in use, they go 'away' in the high cupboards, the back of the overspill cupboard, and 'up the shed'. When in use, they are right there in the kitchen being used. They go away in their proper places when finished with so I can find them again.

I do the same with the sewing machines I take into schools for lessons, the 12 pairs of dressmaking scissors, all the threads and ribbons and laces and see-through stuff and beads and irons and pressing cloths and paper scissors and wotnots that go with teaching classes. When done, I tidy them all away, being sure they have been cleaned, oiled, and have all their kit with them. The one machine I neglected last time lost its bobbin case, costing me a tenner to replace it. Silly error on my part

- a little more obsession with tidying up the kit properly would have saved a shedload of time hunting for it and some hard earned dosh.

I taught in schools for many years. At the end of the day I had the room perfectly tidy, the work for the following day set out on my desk for all the classes, the books marked and the paper boxes filled, equipment such as videos and TV booked where necessary, and everything right there so my classes ran smoothly, and, should I not be there, whoever took my class for me had everything from paper and pens to textbooks and worksheets right there for the students to use. Does this level of organization make me ill? Or did it mean I was a better teacher than the one down the hall who never remembered to book the telly, who's desk was such a heap he could never find his register without hunting for it, and who wasted so much time getting stuff ready IN class rather than before class that his students switched off and behaves badly while they waited for him to catch up?

I no longer have a desk that tidy... I will in a couple of days when it gets sorted again. And when I finish in the sewing room, that too will be equally tidy. These are my work spaces, and must be clean and clear for working. I'd like the rest of my house to be that tidy too, but I ain't gonna fuss if it isn't, so long as those two blokes tidy up their stuff for me to clean when I want to. And so long as it's respectable enough for customers of mine to come to the house.

I'm a very disorganized person, but I always sort the cash in my wallet--even to make sure they all face in the same direction. Probably a carryover from the summer I worked as a bank teller...

Ahhh, you have your hands full. As someone who also had 4 children and a husband - a case of his, mine, and ours - I can tell you that there will be things you will never find again. Gone. *poof* No matter what rules and regulations. On the other hand, you will get memories to treasure in your golden years.

That one I like. If I'm going that way, why not tote something along, especially if it's something small. My problem is more the one of "why did I come in this room?"

Original Poster or Original Post

Kate XXXXXX snipped-for-privacy@diceyhome.free-online.co.uk> wrote

Yep, its always been the mantra of the pathetically anal and those with OCD.

Wrong again. I happen to have a very good memory for where stuff is, and have one hell of a mess that amazes visitors who see me put my hand on what I am talking about or what they want to borrow effortlessly, even when it hasnt been used for 30+ years.

More fool you. What matters is how much time you waste obessively moving stuff to its 'place' even if you do have a poor memory.

Its completely stupid to consider just one side of the time/effort equation.

Only those with a severe mental problem do.

You clearly dont have a clue about what real efficient use of your time is about.

Makes a hell of a lot more sense to have adequate storage for what you do use so you dont have to waster your time like that.

And even you should be able to find them when you need them if you had enough of a clue to have adequate storage where they are used.

Another pathetic OCD.

Pity about the time you have wasted all these years that didnt produce any useful result whatever.

Yep, and the evidence that you are to stupid to be able to work out what efficient time management is about.

There might just be more than those two extremes.

Only if you're a pathetic OCD.

You'll discover that one of them will be likely be picking your nursing home too.

If you're any good, it wont matter what they 'think' of the state of the house.

That's "criterium".

Joy Beeson

That's a bike race. There's the "Criterion Stakes" for horses, but I'm also almost positive that there was a famous horse by that name, although googling for it found nothing.

and Cat wrote:

I sort and face my bills. Leftover from street sales. $20s and bigger ones go in the zipper pocket on the body side of the belt bag. And always start with a set amount of change; mine was $50 in coins and small bills.

Hang my keys on a hook by the front door as soon as I walk in, too.

--Karen D.

hmmm, anybody wanna go for 40+ years? We're talking Guinness here...

Forty-year-old Guiness? I think I prefer my Scotch aged, not my beer.

Some beer needs ageing, but I'm not sure it needs that long... Must re-read The Drawing of the Dark by Michael Scott Rohan. My lovely Matusalem Very Old Sweet Oloroso is aged for 30 years in the cask. Yummmmmmm...