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Loomis

07:58 / 11.10.04

If someone could invent a perfect place to put those not-dirty not-clean clothes, they'd be rich....

I find that the ideal receptable is a little chair or footstool in the corner of the room. You can place items on different points about the chair to indicate different stages of cleanliness, or lack thereof.

Many years ago I had a good system for this. I had three hooks on the back of my door, each one used for a different stage of cleanliness, or for different items which can be worn more times than others. Once it got to the point where just about everything I owned was hanging behind the door, and then all the hooks broke off. Then I had to start all over again ...

I eventually refined this system by owning less clothes and just wearing the same thing over and over.

Ariadne

11:18 / 11.10.04

top of the laundry basket. Then you can just make the 'ooh, grubby' decision and bump things into the basket.
For supposedly quite tidy people, our flat is a pig sty at the moment. Newspapers and strange Ikea tools are scattered all over the floor. Being half-moved-in is a strange situation.

Triplets

11:47 / 11.10.04

I am the crawling chaos. On the rare occasions when I go and do a proper tidying up of my place it doesn't take long for it to start looking like the second coming of Hurricane Jesus. I'll need a DVD, but of course it'll be behind two other DVDs, so I'll move them and not put them back and then I'll have to move other stuff to make temporary [read 'permanent'] room those two DVDs, which in turn moves more stuff. And more.

The center cannot hold!

Triplets

11:49 / 11.10.04

Idea though: to avoid the 'where the shit did I leave XYZ' panic, I'm going to go home today and get myself a Key Item box to store all my important stuff in (wallet, keys, passport, work swipe card, loose change), and to make me feel like I'm a character from Resident Evil.

Axolotl

12:06 / 11.10.04

With regard to the not clean/not dirty clothes storage I found at university that a old fashioned expandable clothes horse is superb for this, as not only can you hang your clothes up to dry the different levels can be for different levels of cleanliness, so with me the loweer down the clothes horse the cleaner it is. This sounds counter-intuitive but that way you can take your once-worn but not dirty clothes off and put them direct onto the clothes-horse.
As for general levels of tidyness I have lots of clutter and therefore don't dust shelves and the like very much but dining areas, kitchens and living rooms are kept medium clean. No more than 2 days washing up not done and a general clean up once a week.
I can keep things super-clean due to my time as a chamber-man (or whatever the male equivilent of a chambermaid is) but I don't really find it necessary to do so for my own space.

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