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Help - how do you store your scarves?

(59 Posts)
petitpois Wed 21-Oct-15 09:14:31

Admittedly I do have a bit of a scarf obsession - around 20? But I've got to the stage now where they're all bunched up in the top of my wardrobe. Or hidden under my coats in the entrance hall. So, I need some ideas on the best way of storing them - to minimise bunching so I can actually see what I've got. What do you do? Please tell me I'm not alone! grin

aggie Thu 22-Oct-15 14:42:38

I have a blanket box that hold hats gloves and many many scarves in layers so I can find matching gloves and scarves

Why on earth would one vacuum for a DDIL ? mine sometimes does it for me

pensionpat Thu 22-Oct-15 12:33:17

My DDiL has many many scarves and handbags. I bought her an old-fashioned coat stand. She hangs bags on the lower branches and scarves anywhere they will fit. It looks very attractive. Trouble is I moved it once to vacuum and it toppled over. I had a narrow escape. Death by scarf suffocation! I'm quite short!

Anne2108 Thu 22-Oct-15 11:43:01

I asked DH to fasten some strips of plastic coated wire (the sort used with net curtains) inside my wardrobe doors and I loop my scarves over in a soft knot. I can see at a glance which scarf I want and they don't get creased like they did in a drawer. I bought a row of narrow hooks from Amazon and that is fixed inside another wardrobe door and holds all my necklaces. Saves them getting in a tangle. Of course, if you've got sliding doors, you're snookered!

seacliff Thu 22-Oct-15 11:35:29

I've been ponderig on this for a while! Mine are a total mess. There are some I don't often use, tidy in plastic box under bed. Some in big carrier in cupboard (all jumbled up) some on back of kitchen chair - and usually a couple in the car - never know when it might be a bit chilly.

I don't have the room, but would love one place where they were all displayed hanging, so I could choose easily.

I really should have a severe prune of them, as some I don't wear ever. Often just kept a they were gifts, or just don't work for me.

I actually need to have a major sort out of ALL my clothes. I think I have so many sizes stored away that I might shrink and get into one day. Ain't never going to happen! sad

MumMum Thu 22-Oct-15 11:17:33

Mine are all jumbled up in a drawer and winter ones in another drawer!!! Think I need to think about rolling them, thanks for the idea!!

ninathenana Wed 21-Oct-15 17:41:24

hanging around the neck of the coat I wear them with
I'm not only lacking in scarves, I'm obviously lacking in coats too !

MiniMouse Wed 21-Oct-15 15:06:02

Mine are rolled up and in a lidded crate in the bottom of my wardrobe - apart from a couple of escapees that seem to lead a somewhat nomadic life . . .

downtoearth Wed 21-Oct-15 14:27:38

all of the ones I am wearing at the moment are rolled and in top of wardrobe and added to constantly with new ones,next season they will be squashed in drawer as the next lot are brought out...and added to and so on,until the next season.......grin as you can guess I love scarves and have rather a lot ..

mollie Wed 21-Oct-15 14:20:25

Mine are either folded in my undies drawer, stuffed in a beautifully decorated tote (made my a young relative) hanging on the door of my wardrobe or hooked under coats in the hall.

rosesarered Wed 21-Oct-15 13:53:27

I am the same as kitty warm Winter ones folded flat in a chest, in the hall
Along with hats and gloves. A whole drawer for them in the bedroom, for the silky ones ,folded flat, seems to work.

stillhere Wed 21-Oct-15 13:31:59

I have a sort of hanging round ring, I think it was meant for men's belts, where you would poke one end of the ring where it fastens through the buckle and then twist it around to the belt you need in order to unfasten it. I have a few of those.

I've googled and googled but can't find an image anywhere.

All the ones that crease easily go into a drawer, folded.

glassortwo Wed 21-Oct-15 13:21:11

I just use wooden hangers with the rail on the bottom. I make a loop and thread through around the rail, dont take much room and easy to see which one I am looking for.

shysal Wed 21-Oct-15 11:51:53

Scarves just don't suit me, and I hate to be warm around the neck. Therefore any I am given are stuffed into a drawer under my bed and never see the light of day!

Nonnie Wed 21-Oct-15 11:26:33

I bought a pretty scarf hanger for a friend and have recently seen a much bigger one in Ikea. I think I would need several and then of course I would need more wardrobe space.............

Coolgran65 Wed 21-Oct-15 11:02:05

In two large seagrass boxes on top of a wardrobe that I can reach. Dozens of them...big scarves, pashmina, most from charity shops. I wear a scarf all the time including indoors, feel naked without scarf and earrings.

Stansgran Wed 21-Oct-15 10:58:37

I use men's trouser hangers for the pashmina types and coats are on hangers with the scarf or scarves that I wear with that coat. I have a bad scarf habit but I made a decision only to buy hand rolled edges on silk scarves and width of the loom wool ones. Is there an emoticon for a very expensive habit? But it stops too much buying.

Pittcity Wed 21-Oct-15 10:57:28

This forum has seen me tidy up my linen cupboard, underwear drawers and now scarves in the last week or so, whatever nrxt?

Alea Wed 21-Oct-15 10:51:47

Don't you just hate it when the scarves get out of control and run amok nfkdumpling ? My pants, socks and tights tend to misbehave in the same way!grin

kittylester Wed 21-Oct-15 10:47:27

Wow, never thought of rolling them Nfk. What a brilliant idea. My decorative ones have a drawer in my chest in the bedroom all to themselves and inevitably they get crumpled because the one I want is always at the bottom and I am inevitably in a flipping hurry!

Scarves for warmth are in a chest of drawers in the hall!

Pittcity Wed 21-Oct-15 10:42:29

We have a spare wardrobe where we hang out of season coats so my scarves are hung around the necks of these. I still just grab the same one that I have hung in the hall though.

Tegan Wed 21-Oct-15 10:37:33

No matter how many I own [and don't wear] I'm still tempted to buy more whenever I go out shock even though I, too sometimes find scarves I'd forgotten about.

NfkDumpling Wed 21-Oct-15 10:22:07

I have a hanger in the wardrobe similar to the Lakeland one, but from Kleeneze and shaped like a holey butterfly. That sorts most of the thin ones and the bigger ones have their own (large) drawer, folded in two lengthwise and rolled. Very organised! [smug]
(This only happened a week or two back when they became totally out of control and several vanished down the back of the drawer so I couldn't close it!)

Ana Wed 21-Oct-15 10:14:33

Mine are all hung and draped about like Tegan's, mainly on the coathooks in the hall. If they were out of sight in a bag or in a drawer I'd forget about them and never wear them!

Alea Wed 21-Oct-15 10:11:06

Oh crumbs, sort of folded flattish and then stuffed into various drawers which are then forced shut shock Fortunately they sort of press themselves in the squash.

TerriBull Wed 21-Oct-15 10:05:52

I love scarves and have quite a few, I have a large cotton bag supplied when I bought a posh handbag a few years ago, they are folded and stacked in there.