OK so a year or so back, I was putting a stack of tshirts temporarily on my bookshelf, and I liked it so much I started moving more of my clothes out of the drawers and onto the shelf. So now I have 3 shelves for books, two and a half for clothes, one for rocks, seashells, and other pretty things, and 1/2 for random items.
I really like being able to see all my clothes at a glance, and it is way easier to get dressed in the morning and put away laundry. I just make sure to put newly cleaned clothes at the bottom of the stacks whenever I do laundry. Is there a computer science term for a type of stack where you read off the top and write to the bottom?
Anyway my real question for this community is, “Am I missing out by not using drawer technology?” Some part of me thinks that there must be some advantage to using drawers for clothes that I just. don’t. get. (Besides the fact that it might not be normal lol - or is it? Are your clothes on the shelf? What do you think? Byeeeee!)
I’m pretty sure the major reason people use closed storage is to hide it aesthetically. I do the same and keep my regular items out and accessible.
If you use the clothes regularly then there’s no concern of dust buildup.
Smells in clothes left in storage too long can be from off-gassing of the materials the cabinet is made of. For example, the glue that holds MDF/particle board together, paints, wood stains, plastics, or plain wood all produce gases that build up in stagnant air. They’re harmless but your clothes can absorb the smell.