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–Useful Ways to Store Your Winter Clothes
–Tips for Storing Winter Clothes
The weather is changing and so is your attire. Now, you may not feel the need for an outer layer of clothes, such as jackets, hats, coats, scarves, and gloves, which basically protects you from the cold weather. Synchronising your wardrobe with the seasonal change is the best thing you can do in this regard. To do so, start sorting things out in your wardrobe and stow away the knitted, warming clothes somewhere safe so that they may look as good as new in the next winter season. So, to help you in this regard, we are going to discuss some useful ways to store your winter clothes and give you some tips to make them last longer.
Let’s get started!
Useful Ways to Store Your Winter Clothes
Here are some of the easiest tips for storing your winter clothes that will allow you to free up some space in your wardrobe for summer apparel.
- Wash or Dry Clean Your Winter Clothes
- See If Any Item Needs to Be Mended or Repaired
- Give Items In Charity That You No Longer Fit You
- Store Them In An Organised Manner
- Keep Your Winter Clothes Smelling Fresh
- Care For Your Winter Footwear
Wash or Dry Clean Your Winter Clothes
Storing dirty clothes in your wardrobe for longer periods can attract pests and bacteria, making the storage place unhygienic. Moreover, unclean items having the residues of perfumes, oils or lotions can also cause the fabric to get permanently stained. So, before you plan to store your winter weather clothes for the upcoming months, make sure that they are clean. To do so, you simply need to hand or machine-wash all the non-delicate clothing items. And get winter items made from natural materials like silk, cashmere, and wool dry cleaned.
See If Any Item Needs to Be Mended or Repaired
As you dry clean and wash your winter wardrobe, keep the damaged or torn items aside, for example, jackets with missing buttons, sweatshirts or pants with minor rips, or look out for shoes that are in need of new soles. Once you have separated the damaged items, give them repairing or mending service either by yourself or by taking them to a professional like a tailor or a cobbler. If you think they can’t be repaired or fixed, look up ways of recycling them.
Store Them In An Organised Manner
Store your winter apparel in an organised manner so that it will be easier for you to unpack the items when the cold weather arrives. Fold your sweaters and coats since letting such items hang throughout the summer and autumn seasons may distort their shape. You can store the folded clothes in a cotton or plastic storage bin. However, for dresses and other clothing items that need to be hanged, you can make use of a hanging garment bag, which is either made of plastic or hanger.
The Takeaway: Having a tidy and well-arranged wardrobe is considered one of the best ways to store your winter clothes.
Keep Your Winter Clothes Smelling Fresh
Clothes that are stored for longer periods in a wardrobe may start getting an odd smell, which is mostly due to the moisture and precipitation in the environment, resulting in dampness. However, you can keep the wardrobe with your winter clothes smelling fresh by making use of air fresheners, homemade potpourris as well as scented cotton balls or tissue papers. Furthermore, vinegar can also work wonders in terms of deodorising your clothes due to its natural acidic qualities. So, spraying your clothes with a mixture of water and vinegar is among useful tips for storing your winter clothes.
Care For Your Winter Footwear
When shoes and other footwear items are haphazardly thrown into a storage box or shoved in the back of the closet, usually it causes them to lose their shape. However, to keep your winter footwear items in good shape, you can stuff them up with cotton or tissue papers. Make sure they are properly polished and cleaned so that they will look as good as new whenever you take them out to use.
Pro Tip: You can also carefully stack your shoes in a large storage container, for example, a plastic bin, a shoe organizer or a basket, similar to the ones you use for laundry.
Give Items In Charity That You No Longer Fit You
While sorting through your winter apparel and accessories, set aside the clothing items are no longer wanted. They may include clothes that no longer fit you or the ones that you didn’t wear the entire last season. If you don’t want to reuse or recycle such items, you can simply give them to a friend if they desire to take any of the pieces. Otherwise, you can charity them to a person or take the items to a donation centre.
Things you need to take care of while storing your winter clothes
Some of the key tips for storing your winter clothes include:
- Keep your clothes stored at a cool place, away from any heating source.
- Keep the containers with your winter clothes away from direct sunlight exposure.
- Make sure that your stored winter apparel doesn’t get wet from any potential water leaks or flooding situations as excessive amounts of moisture can severely damage your clothes, which may cause them to develop mildew and foul odour.
- Opt for plastic rather than paper, wood or cardboard boxes since it is waterproof and provides better protection to your valuables from pests.
- If you are using plastic boxes then you need to make sure they are not airtight as clothes, especially those made with wool and natural fibres, need to breathe.
- Avoid storing your clothes in direct contact with the wood as it contains acids, which can potentially damage textiles, resulting in faded colours and ripped off clothes.
Now that we have discussed all the useful ways to store your winter clothes, it’s time for us to wrap up this blog. Let us know if we have missed out on mentioning anything important by sending your feedback at blog@zameen.com. Your suggestions help us improve.
On a side note, you may also want to take a look at our other blogs discussing different aspects of homecare and improvement according to seasonal changes like ways to prepare your home for spring and tips for getting your living place ready for summer.
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