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More closet breakthroughs- foldig vs hanging jeans

unfrumped

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I've been hanging most of my jeans in closet because," I'm a hanger", and I hang all my pants . I do fold my gardening jeans in a drawer.

Recently i was more aware that the jeans seem more unruly on hangers and I don't like to put them back. Maybe it's because they are rough and tend to grab each other. Also they take up more room per item. And, I don't even wear jeans every day.

I know that to store them in a drawer, I'd want one of my bigger drawers so
as to not have to cram them.
Recently, with the Tidying phase I'm in and paring down or rethinking what goes where, I've seen a way I could move the jeans out of the closet and into the dresser.
Because I don't wear them every day, it's less likely I end up needing to " stare" at them to think of an outfit. It's either weekend jeans which are sometimes on my casual- wear hooks anyway, or maybe going out and I have time to pull them out.

What about other Fabbers? I know a lot of folks fold jeans , but for some reason I never approached it from a frequency of wear angle instead of " pants go on hangers "angle.

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Karie

(website)

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My jeans get folded on hangers and hung on the top hanging rack in my closet. It's much easier for me to get to them there than if / when they were in drawers. The dresser drawers are taken up with DH's clothes, my undies, socks, and nighties, so there isn't much room. I used to have them in "under the bed" drawers, but it was kind of a pain to get to them. When they're hanging, I can easily see which pair I want to wear just by moving the hanger rather than digging through a drawer.

I wear them only a few times a week - on weekends when I go out, and on dress down Fridays.

Mander

(website)

Veteran

I don't have a proper dresser so I hang mine. Also, I wear jeans almost every day, so I might keep them in the closet even if I had a dresser. But I can see that your thinking makes a lot of sense!

kkards

Veteran

i'm a folder, but they go on a shelf in the closet not in a dresser. true confession, back in the mid 80's i worked for the gap, so i'm both a superb folder, and a true believer that folding is the best way to house a lot of clothing with minimal space.

Staysfit

Veteran

I used to fold mine and store them on the shelves in my closet. Now they are hung by category on the bottom tier in my closet. I like them hanging, but I have lots of jeans, and wear them almost every day.

Diana

Veteran

I fold on shelves (I don't like or own a dresser) but I would prefer to hang if I had the space. It seems like I inevitably want the pair on the bottom of the stack and getting it out messes up everything else!

Anonymous

Folded in a dresser drawer.

Anonymous

I hang all of my pants, including jeans.

Style Fan

Veteran

I fold my jeans on a shelf in my closet. My dresser is full of Yoga clothes, undies, socks, camis, etc. I could use another dresser and more shelves. I am very neat and organized so it all works for me.

Tania

Veteran

I fold mine and place on a closet shelf.

Anonymous

I hang all my pants, that includes jeans. It is a good system for me, but if I lacked closet space, I might consider folding them in a dresser or on the top shelf of the closet.

Meredith

Veteran

I fold my jeans and store them on a shelf in my closet. They don't look particularly tidy, though. I suppose i could put them in an opaque box if I wanted a cleaner look, but closet clutter doesn't bother me. What about an alternate method of hanging? Is this too messy?

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Dee

Veteran

Mine are folded in a dresser drawer for ease of access and putting them away.

deb

Veteran

I hang mine because if they were folded I cannot seem to see everything.

Aquamarine

Veteran

I hang all my pants, including denim. They stay neater and seem to get less wrinkles as long as they are not squashed in.

Adelfa

Veteran

I wear jeans a lot, as they are important to my smart casual work wardrobe. I've been gradually moving towards folding (by that I mean I went from hanging, to hanging some and folding others, to folding all), and now all of my jeans are folded on a closet shelf. The key was a youtube video that showed me how to fold them neatly--it involves folding in a long thin triangle to get rid of the extra material at the crotch point, thus making a more rectangular block. I'm loving it--the stack is neat and pretty, I feel I can see the jeans all at a glance, and I don't have any trouble getting a pair from the bottom of the stack. I found a lot of videos on folding that aren't necessarily Konmari but that are very helpful.

This is the jeans folding video that I used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyalSuBIS_M

Janet

(website)

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Mine are folded on shelves in the closet. I wear jeans so frequently and have so many, that they would take up a huge amount of hanging room. I am quite content with them that way. One pile is skinnies and straights, one is bootcuts and boyfriends, and one is patterned and colors.

Firecracker (Sharan)

Veteran

I'm like Janet--fold mine on a shelf. My two piles are 1) blue denim and 2) all others (black, coated, cords, white, etc.).

Greyscale

Veteran

I don't have a closet, just free-standing racks. Jeans are kept in dresser drawers, even if I've worn them. I wish I could hang them on hooks to air out if they've been worn, but there's nowhere to do that. I suppose I could put a row of hooks somewhere and display all my jeans on the wall...

Suz

(website)

Veteran

Folded. I have some of them in my closet on a shelf, and some in my armoire on a shelf.

Lyn D.

Veteran

Mine are folded side-by-side in 3 wire baskets on my closet shelf.
I might try the folding method Adelfa linked to today!

unfrumped

Veteran

Well, I
May try the drawer and see what I think. I only have about 6 pairs and each is kind of specific and 3-4 are worn less than once a month. So I wanted more " breathing room "
for more frequently worn items and for the work- morning rush.

But, at the same time I'm exploding one long- time practice , I noticed another dysfunctional system.
I've used one of those over- rod " valet" hooks, that braces on the back
wall , as s hook for an extra day outfit or new items or such. I've moved it around to a couple of different sections of closet rod.
We, I finally figured out , heck, anything hanging on it blocks part of the upper and lower rods and caused far more visual " clutter" than any benefit of staging something there. I could easily hang next-day outfit items just at a front section of rod. Currently it was partly blocking my jeans area.
I just don't have the space in the closet to use an item Lind that in a convenient way.
I've take that out and liberated my brain from trying to make it work and that may improve other things as well.

MTBGirl

Veteran

Yay for you Unfrumped! Just yesterday I moved my folded jeans from the drawer into a shelf on the closet. I also used to hang staging items perpendicular over top the hanging items and like you did not like the blockage. I now have two coat hooks for staging mounted on the wall next to the closet. I screwed them into the studs at a distance apart about that of my body. (I secretly always wanted a mannequin of myself for staging! haha)

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unfrumped

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Donna, waving to my epiphany twin! Funny how inertia takes hold and it takes something to shake it up.

DonnaF

Veteran

I hang my jeans and other pants on coat/skirt hangers that hook/stack so that I hang four or five pairs at a time vertically. It, umm, allows me to hang more in the same amount of space. I hang toppers and shirts by twos. I don't do this as much with skirts because I have enough room for them on my lower rod. I'm short with correspondingly short clothing.

trekkiegirl

Veteran

Am I the only one that rolls jeans? I have a very small space to hang things, so trousers are in there but not jeans. They don't seem to wrinkle when rolled. I roll other things too - sweaters and sometimes tshirts.

minigrrl

Definitely folded a la KonMari method...

Jeanie

Veteran

I don't have much closet space or drawer space for bulky jeans so I only hang dressier pants that wrinkle. At one point I tried folding jeans in stacks in the closet but I couldn't see them well and the stacks would always get messed up so now my jeans are folded and kept in a laundry basket. I just pull out the basket, find what I need and hide it back away. If the stacks get messed up it is all contained so it all stays in the basket.

Sal

Veteran

I hang mine, not always that successfully to be honest. They often fall off the hangars. I could fold....

Joy

Veteran

Most of my jeans are folded and filed vertically in a drawer, but some ( white jeans and coated jeans) are hung in the closet. Sometimes I iron jeans and then hang them. Jeans that I've worn once and are not yet ready for the laundry get folded and put on a shelf in the closet or hung on a hook rather than put back with clean things.

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