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There are times when I get curious about how other people do certain things, but the question doesn't seem to warrant a thread of its own.  And surely I'm not the only busybody on the forum.  So here's a place for all your nosy questions.

 

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What I'm wondering today is this:  Imagine that you're facing your clothes closet (wardrobe, whatever you call it).  You take an empty hanger off the rod, put a shirt on it, and hang it back up.  Which way is the shirt facing -- to your left or to your right?  (It never occurred to me that this could vary from person to person till I was hanging up some things in another person's closet, and noticed that from their perspective, I was doing it backwards.)  My shirts face to the right.

 

Maybe this has to do with handedness?  So I'll also mention that I'm right-handed.

 

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Well, I'm right-handed, and mine face left. But I've always thought it's more to do with the orientation of the closet; if they faced right, I wouldn't be able to stand where I could see the front of them, due to a bookshelf. I hang them the other way round when I'm at our vacation place, for the same reason.

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Mine face left too - I thought a bit about why, then realized that, as I'm (mostly) left-handed, I usually open the closet with my left hand, then take a shirt with my right for inspection, pulling it out in a clockwise arch so that I can see its front, which is why it had to face left to start with.

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I put my shirts on hangers in the laundry area, which has no door, so that's not an issue.  Being (as you say, mostly) right-handed, I first pick up the hanger with my right hand, meaning that I must then pick up the shirt with my left hand.  I'm pretty sure that the only graceful way to proceed from there ends up with the shirt facing right.

 

At least, I think that's how it goes.  Maybe picking up shirts is one of those things that I tend to do left-handed, leaving me no choice but to pick up the hanger with my right.  :unsure:  I'll have to watch myself do it next time.  All I really now for sure is that when I try to put shirts on their hangers the other way, it requires some real contortions (both physical and mental).

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Mine face left too, I am right-handed but funnily I do it exactly like what Caya's described.

 

My current closet has sliding door, but the one in other place has swing door and they are both unobstructed, so maybe it's not a factor. I remember in hotels they like to face left too when there is no obstruction like deposit box or something else.

 

Now I am trying to remember retail's display and pretty sure many of them facing left?

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I just checked Alex's shirts, and they face left.  This may be one reason why we each do our own laundry -- I do recall being unhappy with the way he hangs up my shirts, and vice versa, but I thought that was because we do the buttons differently.  Maybe it's actually because I'm the only person in the whole world who hangs up shirts facing right.

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Nope, my (right-handed) mom hangs hers facing right. :smile: Sometimes she gets a notion and hangs some of my clothes ... facing right. Drives me bonkers!

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Actually, I fold all my T-shirts, not hang them. (I have a small closet and many clothes, I think I maybe should fold more stuff and get one of those box-hangers, to have more space to put it...). But the jackets and jumpers, etc are hanging both ways.

That means towards the middle - the jackets and hoodies etc that hang left face the right, and the ones hanging right face the left side. And the trousers/skirts in the middle. :D Don't know why I do that, it just makes sense to me.

Also, it's quite interesting if you look for something in my closet, because about 95% of my wardrobe is black.... :lol:

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That's how I know when it's time to get rid of some clothes ... when there's not enough room in the closet anymore! :d

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:-D I never thought about this before... I don't really have shirts. I have, let me see, two blouses and right now one is facing left and the other right. I just looked into my husband's closet and all his shirts are rolled into a ball, to be taken out and ironed only right before use. We're both right-handed. And apparently not very civilized.

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Iron? You iron?

 

Everyone's been kind enough not to say it to my face, but I have a feeling I'm known for my rumpled clothes. Hey, at least they're clean! Well, washed. I think everything I own has either paint or food stains on them somewhere. :rolleyes:

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My first husband got custody of the iron.

 

I finally got another one (at a garage sale) so I'd be able to press a new hemline before stitching it, and maybe the occasional curtain, etc.  I hang things up right out of the washer and/or dryer and straighten the seams.  I don't iron.  So I've got that rumpled look too.

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Right-handed, a double-compartment wardrobe. Clothes on the left are facing to the right and the right to left because I usually stand on the middle and likes to immediately see what I pulled off the hanger.

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And he presses hemlines and the occasional curtain! I'd say she got a pretty good deal.

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That means towards the middle - the jackets and hoodies etc that hang left face the right, and the ones hanging right face the left side.

Right-handed, a double-compartment wardrobe. Clothes on the left are facing to the right and the right to left because I usually stand on the middle and likes to immediately see what I pulled off the hanger.

:blanket:

Barbarian..! XD

 

Carol, you've got your new husband on a garage sale? :blink:

Is that why that man winked at me when I protested that he only had four items but put the price tag of "5 for $100"?
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Right-handed, a double-compartment wardrobe. Clothes on the left are facing to the right and the right to left because I usually stand on the middle and likes to immediately see what I pulled off the hanger.

 

I recognize my clothes also from behind because I know them by heart. Does it mean my wardrobe is too small? :blink:

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Right-handed, a double-compartment wardrobe. Clothes on the left are facing to the right and the right to left because I usually stand on the middle and likes to immediately see what I pulled off the hanger.

I recognize my clothes also from behind because I know them by heart. Does it mean my wardrobe is too small? :blink:

It could also means that your clothes are quite different from each others, the non-uniform kind. ^^

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Right. I usually recognize my shirts by looking at the sleeve, so it would make no practical difference if they faced the other way or even in random directions. But it bugs me if they don't all face to the right.

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My head's starting to whirl.

 

I sometimes suspect myself of being slightly OCD, because I know what Carol means ... it has no effect on how I select my clothes, it simply bugs me if one is facing "the wrong way." Also when I'm eating something like strawberries or small cookies, I always make sure to eat an odd number. E.g., three or five, never four. I've tried making myself eat an even number, and it just "feels wrong." Weird, no? But it's only certain things, things around that size ..... I'll grab a handful of blueberries or walnut pieces and swallow them, it never occurs to me to count them. But if I have to crack open the walnut myself, yes. Really weird.

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There was a split second when I saw this thread, I happily wanted to say, my clothes are facing left, but you know what?? All my books are facing right.! Before I realized the idiocy level. Hmmmm.. maybe if I start collecting Chinese book.. I would have books facing left..

 

OCD.. dear me. I always say I have 'mild' OCD but people have been noticing them. Some of the things I have, I like to keep things aligned or perpendicular to each other, and always straighten stuffs. One day I sat in McDonald wanted to spend sometimes taking a coffee break but ended up leaving because the table is not straight, it's fixed to the floor with more than 10 degree tilt. I couldn't think properly, couldn't enjoy my coffee, it was blasphemous. :p

 

Even and odd, I do things in even number also or try to make everything countable even, like when I buy groceries.

 

But they are all not too bad as sometimes I can stay in pile of wreck especially when I am in the middle of work and I have fun with (gasp) odd numbers too.

 

But I still have to check my key, phone,passport multiple times or everytime someone mentions it.

 

Anyway, I can't believe we are talking about cloth direction for two pages. :D

 

What other poll should we have? Ideas?

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The book direction in my shelf actually has a variety because I notice german books and dvds are often facing different sides than the english/american import ones...sometimes it's annoying. For example all my german Sherlock DVD Boxes face the right, only 'The Abominable bride' faces left because it's english import...(it's bit like traffic, german cars drive on the right side and the english on the left . XD) , and to make it fit in the row saying 'Sherlock' in the same direction I had to put the english one upside down. :P

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