Do you hang your clothes so they’re facing left, or facing right

[VRBeauty]

I’m just curious as to how people hang their clothes - with the fronts facing left, or facing right - and whether that orientation has anything to do with which is their dominant hand. You get to answer twice so you can also respond on behalf of your partner if you’d like. (If one of you changed their how they had been hanging their clothes for the sake of a more unified- looking closet - or relationship - please let us know in the comments.)

I’m right-handed, and I hang my clothes facing left. I don’t know why; I just know that it’s as thoroughly ingrained in me as my response to the great toilet paper debate (which is, “over the top”).

My husband is also right-handed, and he consistently hangs his clothes facing right. Fortunately this is a difference that we can both live with. (The toilet paper thing, though, could have been a deal-breaker for me.)

Come to think of it, maybe I should be checking whether closet orientation is related to political leanings? But I’ll leave that investigation to another day, or another poster.

 

[Karl_K]

left right
why? because thats the way my mom did it.

 

[AprilBaby]

Could you please explain left vs right facing?

 

[VRBeauty]

Could you please explain left vs right facing?

If you have a shirt or jacket on a hanger, and you’re facing of your closet and ready to hang that item, do you hang it so the front of the shirt or jacket is oriented toward your left hand (facing left), or toward your right hand (facing right).

Did that help?

 

[YadaYadaYada]

Facing left and I’m right-handed.

As for toilet paper, in my younger years I worked for a cleaning company and the paper was always over the top, never under. It was said to be more sanitary since you reduced the possibility of touching the wall when getting the paper.

 

[lilmosun]

I live in an old house without walk-in closets. Because the closet space is wider than the door, I face my clothes to the center.

 

[mellowyellowgirl]

All over the place. I'm a free spirit when it comes to these things. Haha chaotic

 

[donnabrsd]

Facing left and I'm right-handed. In my old closet, it worked so that when I walked in I was looking at the front or right side of the my clothing. In my newer closet (bedroom covered to closet), I look at the backs of everything when I walk in. It is so annoying. I tried changing clothing to right facing, but it was challenging hanging items and odd grabbing hangers off the bar with my left hand. I also rotate my clothing, so I put the newly washed items in the back, but it's really the front now due to the new closet orientation. It drives me crazy. Then, there is the whole un-matching hanger debacle.

 

[xsouzie]

I'm right-handed and I hang my clothes facing right. Same as my husband. I never let him change the toilet paper or paper towels though, because they end up looking like this...

 

[FL_runner]

I’m just happy when I get everything hung up

 

[jaysonsmom]

Clothes always face left. Both my husband and I are right handed and have separate closets. I do all the laundry and clothes hanging, so I’m the OCD one. I also HAVE to hang toilet paper over vs under the roll. I will take the time to fix a toll or clothes hung the “wrong” way.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

facing toward the middle so half facing one way and half the other

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I live in an old house without walk-in closets. Because the closet space is wider than the door, I face my clothes to the center.

hmmmm
is this why we do it like this ?

 

[dk168]

It depends on the direction the cupboard/wardrobe door(s) opens.

If the door opens from left to right, then the clothes face right and vice versa.

If the wardrobe is big enough to have 2 doors and both doors can be used with ease, then one side will face left and the other side will face right.

Hope it makes sense.

DK

 

[peacechick]

I‘m right handed and hang the clothes facing left, regardless of closet orientation. My husband is left handed and hangs clothes facing the right, but since I’m the one doing the laundry, he’s changed for me. I don’t care how toilet paper or kitchen paper is oriented, and it also doesn’t bother me either if the toilet seat is up or down.

We both have a lot of OCD rules about dish washing though because we do it by hand and we don’t like it when others wash our dishes and dry them the wrong way.

 

[Made in London]

Right handed. Facing left

 

[missy]

I am so not organized. I wish I was but I am not programmed that way.

I always hang my clothes up or fold them and put them away but in no particular order or specific way.
Greg is the opposite. He is super organized and when he purchases something new clothing wise he gets rid of something too in order to keep it neat.

That is not me. I have clothes from 20 years ago lol. And would have things from 30 plus years ago if Greg didn't insist on me getting rid of them. Mind you I haven't worn them but hate throwing things away. And who wants my old clothes from decades ago?

And don't get me started on shoes and boots. I am lucky if I can find them all. Hint I cannot. Sigh.

 

[GliderPoss]

Literally any way, no routine or consistency! Must be a weirdo…

 

[missy]

Literally any way, no routine or consistency! Must be a weirdo…

Or we are just free spirits.
Marching to the beat of our own drummer.

 

[icy_jade]

If the wardrobe isn’t at the centre of the room, doesn’t it depend on which side of the wardrobe you typically face when you take your stuff, which is dependent on the layout of the room? Eg if the wardrobe is in a corner, I’ll imagine that the direction is pretty much fixed

 

[chrono]

Both ways. They all face inwards so that whoever is standing in the middle of the closet space can see both sides at a quick glance without having to shove hangers around.

 

[jaysonsmom]

Facing left and I'm right-handed. In my old closet, it worked so that when I walked in I was looking at the front or right side of the my clothing. In my newer closet (bedroom covered to closet), I look at the backs of everything when I walk in. It is so annoying. I tried changing clothing to right facing, but it was challenging hanging items and odd grabbing hangers off the bar with my left hand. I also rotate my clothing, so I put the newly washed items in the back, but it's really the front now due to the new closet orientation. It drives me crazy. Then, there is the whole un-matching hanger debacle.

I'm not a super neat freak, but around the time I turned 35, some strange hanger matching OCD kicked in. I have now converted my walk-in and my husband's walk in closet to all matching hangers. All not the non-matching hangers are now in the kids' closets or other closets.

 

[AprilBaby]

Thanks for the explanation! Right handed facing right.

 

[Arcadian]

I really didn't get what that actually meant but, I do have a east/west closet. all fronts face west, whatever that means....lol

 

[josieKat]

I have sliding door closets, and clothes face the center. So left facing if accessed on the right, and right facing if accessed on the left.

 

[GreenPapaya]

Left facing, right handed for me. However, my husband doesn't pay attention or notices which way his clothes are facing so they're chaotic and sometimes not even on the hanger. Argh, he goes one step further and hangs clothes so that the open part of the hanger's hook faces us. I don't know why that triggers me and i have to turn it all around. I don't know anyone else who hangs clothes like this.

 

[kenny]

Facing left (I’m right-handed)​

But my SO is southpaw and lately has been doin the laundry.
I call him my laundry wench.
He calls me his kitchen wench.

When he puts my shirts on hangars they face the opposite direction of what I've gotten used to.
I asked him to change but he hasn't.
So I turn every one around.

No biggie.

But it is an interesting thing, this dominant hand thing.
What evolutionary advantage could explain about 90% of people being right handed.
Why not 100%, or 50%?
Yet another unanswerable question.

 

[gregchang35]

Facing left; right handed.

It wasn’t instilled in us as kids. Just feels right this way.

What is annoying is the way the hanger hook is…. I hang with the hook going into the back of the closet. So that works, and I am happy. But, in dept stores, I have seen where they hang it with the hook coming out towards the front from a shelved space. In racks, I know there are 2 sides, so that is ok.

Hope that makes sense.

 

[KaeKae]

Depends on where it hangs in the closet.
You could say they all face the center, so left side of the closet faces right, right side faces left. Simply because it makes sense to me, as I stand in the middle of it.
pants are in the middle, I hang them with the waist on the left side, if that's of interest.

 

[mommylawyer]

Facing left; right handed.

It wasn’t instilled in us as kids. Just feels right this way.

What is annoying is the way the hanger hook is…. I hang with the hook going into the back of the closet. So that works, and I am happy. But, in dept stores, I have seen where they hang it with the hook coming out towards the front from a shelved space. In racks, I know there are 2 sides, so that is ok.

Hope that makes sense.

Yes, exactly. I hang my clothes facing left (I'm right handed) because I want the hanger hook to face into the closet. My husband doesn't hang his clothes. He has his own closet with cubbies. He likes everything folded.