Who hangs t-shirts?

I hang t-shirts. I don't like to search through folded clothes so I hang everything I can.

@Mid-C Frank

Retail stores.

People who are on crutches and find it difficult to get into the closet so they take what they can get from the dryer for a photo shoot :)

I hang my 'good' t-shirts that aren't for working out or painting. But I don't like stretched out neck holes so I always go in from the bottom.

I always though you shouldn't insert a hanger from the neck opening because it stretches it out.

Could we have gotten better pictures with this description?

This sounds more complicated than it probably should ... Imma need to see a video!

i always roll up my tshirts and put them in an under the bed box in a single layer. that way, you can see what the design is.

downtowncook - probably, but unless I can train the dog to snap the photos for me, it's trickier than you think. Once you load your arm up with shirts, the rest will come naturally, don't worry!

Next month on Apartment Therapy: How to Train The Dog to Snap Photos.

I would read it!

Thank you so much.

It looks like this would work with other types of shirts as long as you can get the hanger in from the neck (which I have always done because I'm lazy and feel it can't stretch them out any more than going over my head does.) Hanging shirts is always my least favorite laundry task and I often leave it too long because I hate it so much and have wrinkled shirts.

I can't wait for laundry day to come again so I can try this out!

i hang everything except undies and socks. so i'm really excited to try this. :) i have a lot of shirts that need to be hung up.

I can't tell you how much I love that there is a site like this that devotes attention to these little improvements in efficiency and homekeeping. That comes off as sarcastic, but I mean it, this is very entertaining.

That said, it seems like the setup takes substantially longer than ten seconds, negating the time savings. (Same feeling about the fold-in-two-seconds method.) I do have a question, do those plastic rectangles make folding any easier or are they just for uniformity? My husband folds shirts in quarters and my attempts to get him to fold in thirds have come to naught. (I know I should be glad he folds at all.)

I learned this backwards.

if you're a righty put your left arm down through the neck holes of the T-shirts out the bottom, line them up on your left arm so all the fronts of the shirts are facing the same way. grab the top of the hanger with your left hand and slide the t-shirt off your arm using your right hand and onto the hanger (which is held in your left hand) one at a time. pass the hanger to your right hand flick your right wrist that's now holding the hanger so the T-shirt settles squarely and hang on the rod.

if you are a lefty then reverse the order.

this only works with slide-y hangers (non-flocked) the flocked ones require 2 hands as the shirt sticks and if you are AR like I am and like all your shirts facing the same direction make sure you grab the hanger the correct way for the orientation in your closet.

this along with the Japanese technique of T-shirt folding makes quick work of a pile of laundry. plus keeps everything relatively crease free.

larchgirl - Excellent addition. I forgot to mention that if you're left handed, put them on your right arm, if you're right handed put them on your left! Thanks for the reminder!

tasterspoon - I pull my shirts out of the dryer and they go directly on my arm, I walk to the closet, hang and I'm done. It sounds like it takes more time than it really does.

T-Shirts and sweaters should be folded and placed in a drawer along with your jeans - never hung.

And who uses plastic hangers anymore?

Who exactly decided that T-shirts (or sweaters for that matter) HAVE to be folded? That's just silly. I hang up my "nice" T-shirts and fold my cruddy ones. I would never have enough drawer space to fold all my T-shirts, all my sweaters, all my jeans, all my shorts, and all my workout pants.

Heavy sweaters should be folded to prevent them from stretching under their own weight. T-shirts are lightweight. They can be hung up with no danger of stretching. As can lightweight sweaters. These dogmatic clothing-storage attitudes are just bizarre.

I personally don't hang my t-shirts, but fold them, and place them in the drawer. I have way, way too many to hang. Its an inefficient use of space. I easily have over 100 t-shirts and could never hope to hang them all in my closet. However they fit nicely into 4 drawers. I use the Japanese folding technique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5AWQ5aBjgE

I don't dry most of my t-shirts, so I hang them in the closet to dry and they usually stay on the hangers until I wear them. I have t-shirts that are 5 years old and look almost new. No, it doesn't stretch them out, but I think this method on wet t-shirts would. Still if I were one to dry and hang my t-shirts, I'd try this method.

I fold my t-shirts like I do my sweaters and have very little creases.

Lay flat fronts side down, fold the ends up to where the under arm of the shirt begins, fold each sleeve across the back of the shirt, for long sleeves they will overlap and will need to fold the ends (flip back), then take the bottom fold up once more, then fold entire shirt across to the left or right.

This is the best fold for travel too and I wrap my t-shirts and sweater stacked in a dry cleaner bag keeps from wrinkling.

I folded t-shirts until I moved into a house that had much more closet space than our available drawer space. My husband loves having his t-shirts on hangers. Plastic hangers, actually.

This reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons where Marge becomes a police woman. She is in a book store and goes for her usual "Sponge Monthly" Magazine... LOL and realized how lame she really is.

emilyj67 I know how you feel, she does that to me all day. And it's hard to keep it to myself some days, with all the choking on my coffee and all.

Alright, if you're going to make a post on the front page and the last line is See how after the jump! then there should be an accompanying video to go with it.

I can read these instructions a million times, but if I don't actually see it in action, then I can't believe, nor can I figure it out.

i only fold old tees because i don't care if they get jammed into my drawers, and sweaters are folded and placed in sweater boxes to preserve their shape. the flip'n'fold makes folding super quick, and leaves everything in a uniform size. i always hang newer tees and knits, though, after ironing.

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Even if I wanted to hang my t-shirts (which I never would) I couldn't afford the closet space.

Could it be that you t-shirt hanging people have way more closet space than floor space or drawer space? I envision you all hanging your underwear up on those pants hangers with the clips now too.

I don't hang anything, anymore, except for coats.

Wrinkles fall out by the time I get to work, and folded clothes take up A LOT LESS space.

Plus I'm really, really lazy.

Re: "Wrinkles fall out by the time I get to work..."

Makes your last sentence redundant.

really - do we need to be condescending to people who hang their t-shirts, people?

i know it's shocking but not everyone does everyone the same way you do. and no - that doesn't make them wrong or you right.

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bepsf-

about 99% of humans i come in contact with. I must live in some horribly backwards and ignorant place!

i don't hang my t shirts but was struck by your comment. You seem to like making comments like this and come off VERY preachy, self-righteous, overly self confident in yourself and your impressive eco awareness.

do and say say what you wish, i could care less. i find it annoying.

ohjodi--

That was meant as a joke, in case that wasn't clear.

I asked this question earlier and surprisingly the post seems to have been removed! Why is this considered a "home hack"?

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Video, please!

1) Starting off this post with a photo of nicely folded was probably not the wisest choice. I don't care which leg you put in your trousers first (that's the old expression isn't it? or is it something about buttoning your trousers?) or whether you fold or hang your T-shirts, but it seems to me once you've done one, you should move on to something else.
2) Also, under "materials needed", you say only "one arm", but in the instructions I counted two! (Insert a winky-faced emoticon right here!)
3) @Jose A -I speak Japanese, and I couldn't quite follow that. I can't wait till I get home to try it out, though.
4) I'm shocked that a women have a sufficient number of similar shirts to make this worthwhile, I feel like I have to launder most of my clothes differently; I never just leave everything in the dryer to the end of the cycle; and my tops all have such different necklines I don't think this would work.
Finally,
5) If this is how retail brick-and-mortar salespeople are hanging clothes, I just may buy all my items on-line, thank you!

Homonym goof in Step 3! "Taut." Not "taught." Happens a lot around here. AT needs a copy editor.

I was picturing it 'wrong' but I think it would be more 'right' to insert your first hand down through the neck so you pull the hanger up through from the bottom. This will avoid stretching the neck, as jessicamc mentioned. Love this technique! I have a sheet folding technique for the bottom (fitted) sheet. Turn the first corner inside out, hold one hand inside the corner, then run the other hand along an edge (doesn't matter which one) until you get to the next corner. Spoon snuggle the second corner over top of the first. The third corner will also need to be flipped inside out. Continue adding layers of corners adding each to the top of the last. Shake out the folds so you get nice corners, then lay flat and fold it down as you see fit. I try to do it so the first center fold line runs the length of the bed. The top sheet is folded the same way, lengthwise fold first. That way I can match up the folds and get the top sheet centered. This method sounds tedious but I've been doing it for so many years and I love the way they look when stacked, nice and neat. I love a well made bed and neat stacks of cotton sheet sets at the ready.

I think this is kind of like the over-or-under toilet paper roll debate. For me, hanging space is at a premium and I dislike hanging more than folding anyway, so I'd rather stuff my t-shirts in drawers and stack my folded sweaters on shelves in my closet.

Honestly, even reading about putting away clothes stresses me out--I hate it that much. But I am happy to pick up a few helpful tips. If I really could make my wardrobe management less onerous, maybe I wouldn't dread it so much.

OK. Next time you run a marathon, start your timing when you're near the end.

Guinness.

This cracks me up, but I noticed the commentors wondering if T-shirt hangers have tons of closet space and nothing else. I hang most of my clothes for exactly this reasons (well, "tons" is relative). I haven't owned a dresser since grad school, and I realized early on that my husband was a visual person and disinclined to dressers. Rather than fight about dressers, I got a bunch of those snap together crates from Target and a few organizer boxes. We put gym clothes, undies, and sweaters in the cubbies, and hang all the rest. All our clothes for all seasons go in the closet, and our floor in our smallish apartments is kept free of clutter and unneeded furniture.

It wouldn't work for everyone, but it works for us. Though I prefer when I have my own closet!

I don't hang my tshirts because I wear size XS & if I do try to hang them, they end up w/ these awful hanger points in the shoulders that never disappear, no matter how long I wear them. Plus, I've got exactly 32" of closet space, compared to three full dressers. I'd fold my dresses if I could figure out a way to keep them neat & tidy in the drawer!