Should You Fold Clothes or Hang Them for an Organized Closet? | Clutter Video Tip

http://www.ClutterDiet.com Get organized with home organizing tips from professional organizers at The Clutter Diet. Some childhood fears are rooted in reality- sometimes there really is a monster in the closet. That fashion minded monster is made of sweaters, jeans, t-shirts, and other assorted clothes. How do you tame that monster on the shelf (or hanger) and make way to get dressed with ease? In today's video Lorie Marrero shares her tips for what to fold and what to hang. Quit living the nightmare and have sweet dreams of simplified morning routines. These Clutter Video Tips are posted frequently here on our clutterdiet organizing channel. You can search Twitter for #ClutterVideoTip also to find comments on our organizing tips. Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com and the author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. Lorie also serves as the national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International and ambassador of the Donate Movement.

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Hi I'm Lorie Marrero, creator of the Clutter Diet book and online program, and today we're going to answer another one of your questions on our "Ask Lorie" portion of our You Tube channel. Today's question is from Greta Johnson. She wants to know what things to fold vs. what things to hang up in your closet.

The answer to that is that there are three different considerations you have to think about for your situation. First, you want to consider the material, the fabric that that particular item of clothing is made of. You want to do something that is not going to damage the fabric. This is why most people like to fold sweaters. Usually sweaters are too heavy to hang up because it's going to stretch out the shoulders and damage the fabric of the sweater. You also want to think about conversely things that might wrinkle if you folded them. If something is very wrinkle-prone, you really might want to hang it. Remember that you can always use padded hangers if you're having trouble with hanger marks on the shoulders. That can be a solution for some garments. But really the fabric is the first thing to think about. People also ask me a lot how to fold things, and you know what, I have this principle of "good enough," right? I don't want to tell you that there's this one perfect way to fold things. The most important thing to do is to fold it to where it minimizes wrinkles, and you also want to fold things consistently so that when they're in a stack they have more of a uniformity to the stack and they will stay in the stack better and you can manage that stack. It's not doing it just because it looks pretty, it's really more about doing it for the stability of the stack. Whatever you do, do it consistently and you'll be fine.

The second thing to consider is your closet configuration. My personal preference is to hang everything as much as possible. And the reason is, we have this rule about visibility. The goal of any organizing project is visibility. And hanging is the most visible method of storing clothing. You can flip through it, you can see what you have, you can see all the colors in an array in front of you. It's a really nice way to do it if you can. But your configuration may vary if you have a lot of shelf space & very little hanging space you're going to have to make that adjustment & fold more things & hang fewer. Look at your own particular closet, what you have to do.

The third consideration is personal preference. Some people just have pet peeves based on the way they were raised, or, you know, they love hanging their T-shirts, or they hate hanging their T-shirts. Think about your preferences in terms of laundry. When something comes out of the dryer, are you more excited about standing there hanging up every item on a hanger, do you have hanging space in your laundry room to hang those items, or is it easier for you to take a big pile and fold it up and put it away? Think about all of those personal preferences & make the adjustment based on your own closet, fabric, & the way things run in your house in your laundry room. I personally like to fold sweaters & jeans because they make nice stacks. They are very manageable & visible that way. I fold T-shirts, shorts, workout clothes, underwear, & socks, and those are in drawers. The sweaters & jeans I prefer on open shelving for the visibility factor, the rest of those items in drawers because they're shallow enough & you can manage them easily & still have that visibility.

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See you next time, and may you always be happy and grateful for having more than enough.

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