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Tell me about your closet
Do you & your H share a closet? If so, how did you divide it up? Is it just 50/50 or did he allow you to take up more space (so 75/25) ? Do you have a storage system/organizer?
I currently have our entire walk-in closet for myself and H uses the one in the spare bedroom ( which will be the nursery). Even though the baby won't need a closet right away, I have a feeling I will eventually have to give up some of my closet space for H. I can't really give him a "side" since one side is a double pole (fits just shirts on each level) and the other side has shelves & just one pole ( for pants/dresses). He doesn't have nearly as many shirts/pants as I do so I don't want to say "You can have X space" and then he not need it all and me not have enough room. So, I'm just wondering what everyone else does.
Dx: Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism After 2 years TTC & failed IUs,we have our IVF baby born 9/24/11
LO#2 aka 'Miracle Baby' Orig. EDD= 9/28 EDD moved to 10/3/13
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." --Thomas A. Edison
Re: Tell me about your closet
Even the thought of a walk in closet is a pipe dream for me. We have 1 closet in our whole house and it is the width of a standard doorway, and barely deep enough for a large suitcase on its side.
I'd say I have 2/3 of it- and he has 1/3. His suits take up a lot of room, but I have a larger variety of coats and accessories.
I'd start by going through your stuff and deciding if it is something you're ever going to wear post-baby (like, you probably don't need to hold on to a bunch of club clothes, for example), and if not, give it away. See how much room that leaves, and then if you need to pare down more, do it seasonally and put some things in storage. We rotate wardrobes once a year because there's no room for sweaters in the summer or sandals in the winter in our closet.
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Guy and I share a closet, I'd say it's about 65 me, 35 him. We keep off-season clothes in the spare bedroom closet. We are currently on the hunt for a chest of drawers, because we were folding his t-shirts and putting them on a shelf above the closet pole, but they keep falling down.
ETA: If you have a girl, your baby will need that closet right away. Trust.
I have the closet in our bedroom and he has a nice big wardrobe in there. We share the closet in the Guest Room for things like formal dresses, suits and coats.
The nursery has its own closet that we hadn't used yet (it used to be the office), so thankfully we didn't have to rearrange much stuff.
Is it an option for you to get a wardobe or even a bigger dresser for your room?
We went from having a huge walk in closet at the apartment to share, to a tiny walk in at the house. Actually we only have 2 closets in the entire house and the spare bedroom has our winter clothes, and my dresses in it.
We have a top shelf, then hanging bar for his clothing. Below that another shelf and bar for my clothing. It works for us right now, but when we get new clothes we try and clear out things that don't fit or we dont wear anymore.
You must have a sweet wardrobe to have a whole closet to yourself!
ETA: Here is what the closet looked like before all of our stuff. Is it possible to do a double hanging mount like this?
Wait, what ?!?!?
(j/k)
I am definitley going to "hard-eye" all of my stuff. There's some things I know I will never fit into again or if I do, I will look like the crazy 30-something year old wearing something I shouldn't.
Dx: Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism After 2 years TTC & failed IUs,we have our IVF baby born 9/24/11
LO#2 aka 'Miracle Baby' Orig. EDD= 9/28 EDD moved to 10/3/13
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." --Thomas A. Edison
Anwar has about the same amount of clothing as I do. Maybe 10 less pairs of shoes.
We have our own closets, neither are walk-in. His is in his man-room. This room will eventually be the nursery, so he'll just switch to the guest bedroom. Mine is upstairs which is bittersweet. It is really cold upstairs in the winter.
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We have a walk-in closet and it's about 50/50. We don't have any type of organizer (we just have one long shelf that has a rod attached to it to hang stuff) since we don't really have enough clothes that it can't fit into the closet. I think what might help is to pack away your out of season clothes if you have space somewhere else. There isn't a reason to have winter clothes out when it's not cold.
I like looking at apartmenttherapy.com for ideas on small spaces.
Congrats to both my TTC buddies, Amberley18 and sb2006 on their beautiful babies!
We have a walk in in our bedroom and we share it 50/50 but I fill it more. Above the rod is a shelf we each put jeans, sweatshirts, and sweatpants on and I switch it out for winter/summer stuff. Under the rod, I have a couple 4 drawer rubbermaids that we keep like baithing suits, I keep my work out clothes/dance clothes, etc in. Then we each have a dresser. He has the 9 drawer short dresser so each drawer is small and I have the 4 drawer tall dresser and the drawers are larger. We keep the shoes in the garage in laundry baskets and I keep my summer sandals in the basement and get them out as needed.
We have a coat closet so that helps reduce what needs to be upstairs.
The spare bedroom closet houses my wedding dress and a few random things that will eventually get thrown out once Nate moves to that room when we have another.
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We have a very small walk in...I don't even think we could both be in there at the same time. I would say it's about 75% my stuff, 25% his.
We have one high rod and one shelf that goes around the whole closet which is on top of the rod. We have shelves below that for shoes. Josh occupies 75% of the shelf space but I occupy 75% of the rod:/
I guess he just doesn't have as much stuff to hang as I do. I'm sure once I'm super pregnant and even after the baby, I will probably get rid of lots of stuff that I won't wear anymore...like my work clothes and really dressy stuff...which will free up some space for him.
What will be the nursery closet only holds suitcases and extra pillows, both of which can be moved.
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C'mon, let's not impose society's gender roles on a baby. :-)
I think Ames meant more that there are a lot more clothes for baby girls than boys. At least, that is what most moms have told me. They find way cuter things for girls, in their opinion, and buy more because of it.
I could be wrong about Ames meaning. But that is how I took it.
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This is what I assumed as well. When people hear you are having a girl, they tend to go nuts shopping for frilly outfits for it.
Dx: Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism After 2 years TTC & failed IUs,we have our IVF baby born 9/24/11
LO#2 aka 'Miracle Baby' Orig. EDD= 9/28 EDD moved to 10/3/13
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." --Thomas A. Edison
This is very true. I think we would have gotten way more clothes from people if we were having a girl. Just knowing my friends and family, this would be the case.
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Exactly!
This is my point, society says girls should have cute clothes, should have more clothes, etc.
Why is this?
SW2B, last time I checked, you've never met my daughter. Even at this young age, she is all girl. No one has ever mistaken her for a boy. I'm not imposing anything on her. If later in life, she decides she'd prefer to live her life as a male, then so be it. I love my child unconditionally.
How dare you imply that any of us imposes any sort of social stigma on our children. How dare you assume that you have ANY idea of what it's like to be a parent. HAVING PETS DOESN'T COUNT. It's completely different.
How dare you imply that I would do anything other than love my child unconditionally, care for her, provide for her, and try my best to lead her down a path in life that will make her happy.
I don't want to hear ANY more bullshit out of your mouth about mine or anyone else's parenting skills. You have NO right to judge.
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