please help this messy person organize her bedroom (papers, clothes...)

[Anonymous]

Please help! My room is a mess! Mostly, I just end up with different clothes all over the floor that aren't dirty but were already worn. I also need some kind of table for all the bills, etc. I'm short so not sure over the door hooks would work for me. Any other suggestions? Thanks!!

[Anonymous]

Get a coat rack for, what you say are, clothes that have been worn but aren't dirt. You can throw a few things on there (and you really should not have more than a few things in the category - if so, you have too much that needs washing) Get a filing cabinet with at least 2 drawers - metal kind - like a serious filing cabinet. You will need to buy *) hanging files and *) file folders.

[Anonymous]

http://www.containerstore.com/shop/storage/drawers?productId=10033494&N=62561

Filing cabinet.

[Anonymous]

I read somewhere about a radically awesome idea -- a shelf or drawer for clothes that are "clerty"...not clean but not dirty. It has totally changed my life! No more clothes draped over chairs or sitting on top of the dresser because I don't want them touching the totally clean things but I can still wear them. I just throw them into the clerty drawer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read somewhere about a radically awesome idea -- a shelf or drawer for clothes that are "clerty"...not clean but not dirty. It has totally changed my life! No more clothes draped over chairs or sitting on top of the dresser because I don't want them touching the totally clean things but I can still wear them. I just throw them into the clerty drawer.

This is very strange.

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read somewhere about a radically awesome idea -- a shelf or drawer for clothes that are "clerty"...not clean but not dirty. It has totally changed my life! No more clothes draped over chairs or sitting on top of the dresser because I don't want them touching the totally clean things but I can still wear them. I just throw them into the clerty drawer.

This is very strange.

Why?

Not strange at all - I re-wear things regularly and don't want these clothes
contaminating" my clean clothes, or confusing me as to which will need washing and which will not.
I have a clothes horse, but pile my sweaters on top of my dresser.

[Anonymous]

Get the bills out of the bedroom. Even a corner of the dining room or living room is better. There are lots of inexpensive desk options at places like horchow, crate and barrel, etc. If you are messy get one with cubbies and a front that closes. If you can corral things in bins then maybe one of those leaning shelves with a desk shelf since they don't take much space and can be decorative.

Agree with the coat rack idea for the worn clothes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read somewhere about a radically awesome idea -- a shelf or drawer for clothes that are "clerty"...not clean but not dirty. It has totally changed my life! No more clothes draped over chairs or sitting on top of the dresser because I don't want them touching the totally clean things but I can still wear them. I just throw them into the clerty drawer.

This is very strange.

Why?

Not strange at all - I re-wear things regularly and don't want these clothes
contaminating" my clean clothes, or confusing me as to which will need washing and which will not.
I have a clothes horse, but pile my sweaters on top of my dresser.

How will clothing worn for several hours or a full day at most "contaminate" clothing adjacent to it in a drawer?

And what will happen as a result of that contamination?

[Anonymous]

I would go through your clothes and thin out what you don't wear. I've read some place that we wear 20% of our clothes 80% of the time. The less you have, the less you need to keep tidy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read somewhere about a radically awesome idea -- a shelf or drawer for clothes that are "clerty"...not clean but not dirty. It has totally changed my life! No more clothes draped over chairs or sitting on top of the dresser because I don't want them touching the totally clean things but I can still wear them. I just throw them into the clerty drawer.

This is very strange.

Why?

Not strange at all - I re-wear things regularly and don't want these clothes
contaminating" my clean clothes, or confusing me as to which will need washing and which will not.
I have a clothes horse, but pile my sweaters on top of my dresser.

How will clothing worn for several hours or a full day at most "contaminate" clothing adjacent to it in a drawer?

And what will happen as a result of that contamination?

Original clerty drawer PP here. I like to know that all of the clothing in my dresser is freshly laundered. There are a few kinds of clothes that I will wear twice or even three times (like, clothes I put on after an evening shower before bed, or sweaters I wear over a shirt) but I want to keep track of the fact that they've already been worn so I will know to toss them in the laundry the next time.

[Anonymous]

I love the clerty drawer idea. Do you fold them in there? Or what?

[Anonymous]

If you hang all your lightly worn clothes on a coat rack, they will pile up, and then they will be dented by the hook of the coat rack. They'll also get wrinkled and saggy looking. Better to fold them into a drawer.

[Anonymous]

I put "clerty" things folded on a bench at the foot of my bed.

Why are your bills in your bedroom? Put them in your LR or designate a kitchen drawer.