What do you do with clothes that have been worn once been aren't dirty enough to wash yet?

The only clothes I wear which go under your category are jeans. I wear them out once, then decide that washing them after just one session out is a complete waste of water and detergent. But I don’t want to put them back into the closet with all my clean clothes which haven’t been soiled by the outside environment yet. So I usually just fold the jeans and chuck them somewhere.

I was wondering this same thing… I am recently married and used to just throw my stuff on the floor. For now I have just been stacking them in a pile. Our bedroom is too small, all the drawers and closet are full of clean clothes so I have no idea what to do with them

The only clothes I’ll wear multiple times before washing are my jackets and my shorts/pants.
I hang my jackets back up in my closet, but I let my shorts lay on a box outside so I know they’re not clean but not dirty.

Shirts are a little tricky cause sometimes they can get stretched out. I have this same problem though, I usually put them in random piles around my room but in theory they should just go back in the drawer/closet.

Mine go over the clothes hamper. That way my wife knows not to wash them.

Tinyfaery,
and where does your wife put her clothes so you know not to wash them?

The only clothes I do that with are my jeans and jackets. I’ll just fold my jeans up and set them on a chair in my room. For jackets or sweatshirts I’ll usually throw the over the back of the chair. I can never wear shirts twice, and I only wear shorts twice if I’m on vacation, because laundry facilities are usually limited.

I put them on the chair in my room. Wear them the next day or so.

I am not allowed to do the laundry or cook. Apparently, I don’t do it the way she likes. But I have my responsibilities too.

I will normally put it back in the closet if I’ve only worn it for a few hours, if I plan to wear it again in a few days I’ll just fold it and put it on my dresser. Most of the time I just wash my clothes regardless because I like them to smell fresh

Jeans, either folded on top of the dresser or over the back of the chair
jackets, dress pants, etc, go back in the closet
shirts usually get washed each time, if it’s a dry-clean only shirt and it can be worn again, I put it back in the closet or fold it back into the drawer

For a while I had a great system where I hung one of those hanging-shelf things that can go in the closet, and I would fold up anything gently worn but not dirty and put it in there. I wish I had enough closet space to put it back up in my new apartment… Now things just sort of pile up on my armchair in my room, and I occasionally go through it and either hang them again or throw them in the hamper if they’ve gotten too wrinkly from being piled there.

I just put em back in the closet.

I have two chairs in my room that get t-shirts, sweatpants, shorts, jeans and all kinds of other things hung on them for being in that in-between, not-dirty not-clean state. Sometimes I never get around to wearing them again, so I just throw them in the next laundry load.

I’ve wondered about this situation a lot and was hoping there would be some interesting or clever way to deal with it. I guess there isn’t.

I don’t put them back with my clean clothes. I fold them and hang them over an empty laundry basket.

it’s the dirty clothes pergatory area:) I have a “staging” area for clothes that can be worn again but that should be washed the next time I do laundry. In my closet i throw dirty clothes on the floor, and on the top closet shelf i stuff all the pergatory clothes ;)

Hang them on really good hangars that won’t crease them.

Jeans I always hang back on their hangers; shirts too if I’ve only worn them a few hours and plan to wear them again soon. I don’t feel (maybe I’m wrong) that the bad outside dirt will jump from my – still quite clean – clothes to other clothes in the closet. T-shirts that I have put on for play and plan to wear again the next day, I leave on the chair, and flannel shirts and play jeans hang from a hook in my closet.

Giant ever growing pile on the floor, on the chair, on the dresser, on the bed! **sigh**

Then I can’t find anything later… pick up random items and snif them. Smelly items go into the laundry basket and non smelly items get worn until they cycle into the smelly items catagory.

Mmmm, sexy :D

Thanks everyone. I was hoping someone had found a magic solution to this but alas no. I guess I’ll just keep tossing the stuff on chair and try to forget about the way it looks… or if I get a really big house I could have a special closet just for the ‘purgatory’ stuff.