How Much Clothing/Bedroom Closet Space Do You Have?

I have a walk-in type closet in my bedroom that is big enough to have 2 entrances. Some people have compared the closet size to the size of their bedroom. However, I rarely use it. I may go weeks without entering the bedroom closet.

Living alone, I find that it makes more sense to instead use my laundry room as a clothing closet. In the morning I take the clothes I’d like to wear out of the dryer. At the end of the day, I put the clothes I am done with in the washer. When a clothing type in the dryer nears empty, I do a load of laundry and move from washer to dryer.

I keep several different shirts and shorts that I like in the active rotation of washer → dryer, so I might repeatedly rotate through the same 8 short-sleeve shirts. If one of those shirts becomes damaged or worn down, I discard it and may (or may not) add a replacement.

My closet serves more as long term storage of clothes that I do not actively wear, which could be used as a replacement. For example, I have long-sleeve shirts in my closet, which I haven’t worn since before the summer. When the weather cools, I’ll add a pair or 2 to the active rotation clothes in my washer → dryer. By winter, the rotation will have all long-sleeve shirts and no short-sleeve. I also keep older clothes that don’t fit well in the closet, which could theoretically move to active rotation if my body dimensions change, but more likely is I will never use them.

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