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AimlessWanderer
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I sorely underestimated the number of shirts needed. One polo, one short sleeve, and one long sleeve between each pair of trousers, was fine for summer sun, but not for when longer sleeves are required. Doubling that to two long sleeve shirts made it more sensible, and created space for gettting the white shirts back in.
I was eager to get this done for the first of June, and I think I have it sorted now.
As planned, on the hanging rail, are the trousers running down the formality spectrum, and the shirts between, can be worn with the trousers at either side. There's more than I was originally aiming for, but I think this is a sensible minimum for doing laundry up to two weeks apart.
It looks a lot, but not when it's broken down. I don't want to be that guiy who always wears the same trousers and shirts every time I meet up with friends and family (when lockdown ends), so this allows a few sensible options
The bottom group is an overlap with the daily decent, as they don't all need saving for best. The daily decents are quite a small group, considering they might need to run for two weeks. However, as the reason it would run to two weeks would be bad health, I'll likely be in loungewear for several days anyway. So for summer, the line up looks like this.
They're what I'll be trying to limit myself to as of Monday. Of course I can "borrow" from the group either side if I need to. Rather than wait for cooler weather before sorting the other clothes, I decided to try and do them all now. That's equally lean for daily clothes.
Of course I have the walking clothes, and the scruffs for doing dirty work in too. I also have set aside three pairs of shorts to double up with the daily decent in summer, and three pairs of jersey shorts plus three full length legwear for use as loungewear. There's about a dozen T-shirts in the drawer, which are for loungewear/sleeping in, doubling with shorts, or wearing as an undergarment in cooler weather. I'm also going to leave a couple of extra pullovers and a fleece as additional throw on layers should they be needed.
Everything else (discards and reserves) is all in one big pile at the moment, and still needs sorting through. I'll be sure to hang onto a few reserves in case this doesn't work out for any reason, but hopefully this will do away with the feeling of having way too much, and yet still be functional and sensible for daily living and health restrictions.
I was eager to get this done for the first of June, and I think I have it sorted now.
As planned, on the hanging rail, are the trousers running down the formality spectrum, and the shirts between, can be worn with the trousers at either side. There's more than I was originally aiming for, but I think this is a sensible minimum for doing laundry up to two weeks apart.
It looks a lot, but not when it's broken down. I don't want to be that guiy who always wears the same trousers and shirts every time I meet up with friends and family (when lockdown ends), so this allows a few sensible options
The bottom group is an overlap with the daily decent, as they don't all need saving for best. The daily decents are quite a small group, considering they might need to run for two weeks. However, as the reason it would run to two weeks would be bad health, I'll likely be in loungewear for several days anyway. So for summer, the line up looks like this.
They're what I'll be trying to limit myself to as of Monday. Of course I can "borrow" from the group either side if I need to. Rather than wait for cooler weather before sorting the other clothes, I decided to try and do them all now. That's equally lean for daily clothes.
Of course I have the walking clothes, and the scruffs for doing dirty work in too. I also have set aside three pairs of shorts to double up with the daily decent in summer, and three pairs of jersey shorts plus three full length legwear for use as loungewear. There's about a dozen T-shirts in the drawer, which are for loungewear/sleeping in, doubling with shorts, or wearing as an undergarment in cooler weather. I'm also going to leave a couple of extra pullovers and a fleece as additional throw on layers should they be needed.
Everything else (discards and reserves) is all in one big pile at the moment, and still needs sorting through. I'll be sure to hang onto a few reserves in case this doesn't work out for any reason, but hopefully this will do away with the feeling of having way too much, and yet still be functional and sensible for daily living and health restrictions.