Time Saver Tip: Lay Out Your Clothes The Night Before

the night before

If you know me at all, you know that I’m a huge fan of FlyLady. I fought a long and hard battle to become organized, I wasn’t born that way. FlyLady was instrumental in that battle and to this day, I find myself repeating her mantras. My two favorites are “Imperfect housework still blesses your family” and “You can do anything for 15 minutes”.  You can find out more about how Flylady changed my life here and you can head over to the Flylady’s website by clicking here.

One of the foundations that FlyLady teaches is to lay your clothes out the night before. Every once in a while, I cheat and don’t lay my clothes out and the difference in the morning is considerable. There’s something so motivating knowing you can safely click that snooze button for 10 more minutes, because everything you need is ready and waiting for you when you wake up. I shower at night, so I can get ready in 10 minutes. About 3 months or so ago, I started laying out my husbands clothes too. He loves having his stuff ready to go, and I love that the closet stays organized and easy to use (which actually makes laundry an enjoyable chore). Last month, I started stuffing t-shirt bags (So easy to make!… Click here for a tutorial) with gym shorts, a t-shirt, socks, underwear, and a towel to go running in.

There are a million beautiful pinterest-worthy ways to lay your clothes out, but I’m a fan of free and easy. The most important thing is to make it a sustainable habit, after that’s done, you can pretty it up with dress forms or garment racks.

We keep it simple, we each have a hangar… at the old place, the hangars hung on two hooks on the back of the closet door. At our new place, we haven’t gotten around to adding the hooks, so we just designated the center section of the closet for our hangars.

We fold the pants over the bottom bar of the hangar, hang the shirt over top, hang sweaters, cardigans etc over that, tucks the socks into the shirt (the pressure of the shirt and pants keep the socks in place, boxer briefs usually get tucked in here as well), Bras and panties get hung over the hanger hook.
Shoes get set out below the hangar.

To give myself a break on the weekends, I normally take a few extra minutes and lay out clothes for the weekend as well (since my schedule on the weekends is more lax).

Give it a shot! Then when you’ve made it a routine, check out these “pinterest pretty” ways to leave your clothes out the night before.

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