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4 months ago

OT hacks - weekly clothing rack

My OT gave me this idea to manage getting dressed, selecting outfits and managing my clothes washing. Clothes rail in bedroom so you don’t have to open your wardrobe and be overwhelmed. 9 complete outfits hanging and labeled on the clothes rail. In order of anticipated wear. Assess whether outfits are sensory friendly and seasonal. Swap out any items with your wardrobe that don’t feel 100% desirable to wear. The idea is you won’t have to open your overwhelming wardrobe again until washing day. My rail looks like this: 3 x Office outfits (x how many days in office. Have two coat/jacket options depending on the weather) 2 x Work from home outfits (x how many days WFH) Comfortable bottoms, corporate top, slippers/socks underneath rail ready to go 2 x Days at home/weekend outfits/or for after work. Can often be worn multiple times. In a box underneath 1 x backup errands outfit 1 x exercise outfit PJs Print a label (e.g Monday - Office) that you can tie around each coat hanger to see the outfits easily. You can have another box underneath the hanger with essential accessories like an umbrella, backpack, lunch bag, reusable shopping bags etc. You can hang your clothes back on the rail when you get home even though they are dirty and hang a new a label on them “to be washed” or just remove the original label. This eliminates a huge washing pile that’s overwhelming. Have a set day, mine is Sunday, to remove the items that need to be washed from the rail. Spray jackets and coats with fabreeze to get extra wears out of them. Please keep me updated on how you go with this system. I will take photos of mine soon once I’m happy with it.

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KatyMc
4d

I’m reaaally struggling with sensory clothing at the moment… I didn’t even realise it was a thing until I saw it on your post! I just know that I don’t want anything tight or restrictive.. which usually means I’m looking frumpy and blegh 😕 which makes me feel terrible as well..

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dopaminegeek
2w

Hello all I’m super brand new here … literally just opened the app and was wandering around. ••••Just got a floor to ceiling double rack to get rid of my previous wardrobe rack that had cubbies and I just stuffed everything and anything in them. Currently using it to hang my hoodies since it’s hoodie season but *this!* I’m going to have to try… everything but the hoodies are currently piled up in random areas of my room… once folded in a laundry bag (was so surprised I folded directly after drying) but never made it to the drawers. They are sorted of course LMAO - 1 laundry bag of just tops, 1 laundry bag just of bottoms, another of just underwears and not matched socks :))))) writing it on my “Hope To Do” List for today and bumping it up to the top **wish me luck**

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Sam ZT
3mo

Omg, can you please be my best friend and describe the rest of your hacks?! 😅 this. Is. Amazing!

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voxysounds
3mo

I can’t seem to get started..I’m so overwhelmed with the amount of clothes now all in piles. By the time I can get myself to start putting them away, I have to re-wash some it because they’ve been on the floor! How do y’all “get started” when frozen??

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