Storing and organising clothes

[dgadee]

I am onboard for most of the summer now and have a collection of clothes stuffed into dry bags (casual and some smart). Can never find anything without rummaging through each bag. Not sure if I should put them into lockers (which would mean cleaning them out and doing small repairs to locking lining ...) or organise them some other way. How do you liveaboards organise these life essentials? Vacuum bags?

 

[tennisgirl1]

We have two large cupboards which are designed to hang clothes, but are a great waste of space so we have stacking plastic boxes which fit into them and also some plastic boxes with lids which hold light clothes like T shirts and are stored on top of lockers. I have also bought some ebags (Eagle Creek type, but cheaper) which go inside lockers and help keep clothes, towels and bedding sorted.

 

[sailaboutvic]

We have three big plastic seal boxes which we keep our winter clothes and change them for summer clothes in the winter , but there no doubt we have far too many clothes .

 

[NornaBiron]

I am onboard for most of the summer now and have a collection of clothes stuffed into dry bags (casual and some smart). Can never find anything without rummaging through each bag. Not sure if I should put them into lockers (which would mean cleaning them out and doing small repairs to locking lining ...) or organise them some other way. How do you liveaboards organise these life essentials? Vacuum bags?

We use our hanging lockers as hanging lockers........and have way too many clothes crammed in!

 

[GrahamM376]

We use our hanging lockers as hanging lockers........and have way too many clothes crammed in!

+1

We also separate winter & summer clothes and store those not in use in vac bags.

 

[duncan99210]

Hmmmm. I have my bedside locker, with shelves and a small hanging cupboard for my clothes: underclothes and socks live in a string bag on the inside of the cupboard door. Oh, and my oilies and a fleece hanging on a hook in one of the aft cabins. And that's for all my clothes, winter and summer.

SWMBO has her bedside lockers, a hanging cupboard in our cabin, a hanging cupboard in one of the aft cabins and several seasonal dry bags to store the out of use stuff. She can never remember which dry bag has which clothes in, despite a fairly comprehensive labelling system. When she mutters to herself 'where have I put such an item', I generally find an excuse to go ashore for a couple of hours whilst she turns the place upside down.

So there you have it. Either do as I have done and reduce clothing to the space available for easy storage or live with confusion as to where any particular item is.

 

[TQA]

Big ziplock bags.

Sharpie indelible pen used to note contents.

Master list on PC as to what is stored where.

 

[Mrnotming]

Will we soo. have tracking devices sewn onto each item,beeps get louder on approach?
(soon)
Use modern equivalent of mothballs in hanging lockers,seems to help keep down boaty smell.
Chucking away old bleached out garments improves space,but at risk of loosing that authentic live aboard look!
wool garments seem to survive well.

 

[keithgdg]

We keep few clothes in the hanging lockers with the smaller lockers in our cabin containing T shirts, shorts and the like. The small ones have 12v pet heater pads in them to keep the contents dry. The other point is I don't much care for looking smart when sailing so if an old T shirt goes west it doesn't matter. Better that scruffy live aboard look than stressing about how I look and having nowhere to put stuff because it's too precious.

 

[Mrnotming]

Hi keith ,
Must look for 12v pet heater pads.do they cook pets well,or are they like small electric blankets,great when they don't catch fire?We do not leave any power on neither mains nor 12v.So a non starter for a jump aboard boat?

 

[keithgdg]

Hi keith ,
Must look for 12v pet heater pads.do they cook pets well,or are they like small electric blankets,great when they don't catch fire?We do not leave any power on neither mains nor 12v.So a non starter for a jump aboard boat?

Ahhhh dear pet cooker they are thermostatically controlled plastic like pads that sit on the cupboard floor and supply a gentle heat to the cupboard and it's contents to prevent condensation. They work fantastically.

I had a chat with the MD before I bought them.

 

[FullCircle]

Ahhhh dear pet cooker they are thermostatically controlled plastic like pads that sit on the cupboard floor and supply a gentle heat to the cupboard and it's contents to prevent condensation. They work fantastically.

I had a chat with the MD before I bought them.

Any chance of a link to said wonder pads?