Where Do You Hang Your Hat (and Your Coat, Gloves, etc.)?

[Illini]

With colder weather settling in, I'm wearing a lot more outer clothing - knit cap, coat, gloves - to do chores. I don't want to bring dirt, hay, or the not-to-be-forgotten scent of bucks inside the house, but I don't want to leave my things where mice or lady beetles might try to make a home.

Where do you leave your barn clothes until they're washed?

[Minelson]

On the floor by the door we have coat hangers, boot trays, baskets for hats and gloves....but, it's always a mess. I gave up. Especially with 3 dogs that go in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out

[turtlehead]

We have a couple of shelves by the door and I got some plastic tubs at the dollar store. Our shoes go under the shelves and our gloves, hats, scarves, headlamps, etc. go in the plastic tubs. Each person has their own tub.

[gone-a-milkin]

On my coat tree...it looks more like a lump of clothes than anything else all winter. By the door I have a basket for gloves, dog leashes, etc.

[Jenn]

A coat tree each door. Try to put away coats that won't be needed for 3-7 months at that season. Back pack or big bag hangs on one coattree hook for hats gloves etc. Finally got a set of shelves we keep shoes on. Still not enough but now I have a place to tuck the several pairs left out. Try to make folks put away the ones they haven't worn in a year. A basket for work gloves. Dirty but reusable ones perch on a shelf nearest the door.

Be careful leaving anythign out on the porch- snakes or spiders get in them here.

[Illini]

Originally Posted by turtlehead

We have a couple of shelves by the door and I got some plastic tubs at the dollar store. Our shoes go under the shelves and our gloves, hats, scarves, headlamps, etc. go in the plastic tubs. Each person has their own tub.

Turtlehead, do you think that a bin large enough to hold a coat would also hold in the smell? My coat really reeks sometimes, with breeding and hoof trimming the boys, but I can't be washing it ALL the time.

I do have a very nicely outfitted hall closet, but I don't want these things in there!

[Nancy]

Our back porch/mud room has hooks along one wall for hats and coats, umbrellas etc. We hang our "junk" coats out there. Our going to town coats hang in a closet in our dining room. Sometimes DH hangs his coats on the dining room chair backs until I hang them in the closet

[Freeholder]

I go in and out through the laundry room (very small -- only room for the W & D) and the garage. If my shoes are very muddy, I leave them in the garage. If they are so-so, I leave them in the laundry room. There are hooks on the wall behind my bedroom door for my work jackets, and ON the back of the bedroom door for my hats and headlamps. Just inside the bedroom is a dresser; the top drawer holds all my DD's and my hats, scarves, and gloves/mittens. If the house was mine (it belongs to my Grandmother) I'd probably be going in and out through the sliding glass door at the back of the house, as it's closest to the animals, but I'd have to go through her sitting room to do that. If I was using that door, though, I'd have places for all this stuff just inside of that door. I try not to put bucky-smelling stuff in my clothes closet; if I come in smelling really bad, I just drop it in the laundry room as I go through.

Kathleen

[Wolf mom]

Sometimes it's nice living alone as I can strip down if clothes are that muddy, dirty or smelly as my back door opens into the laundry room. Otherwise there's a mud tray for boots, and hooks for everything else.

I also built a tiled vestibule on the front of the house so I could leave boots, jackets, etc. there before going inside.

Now if I could only convince the dogs to wash their feet before entering the house...

[ronbre]

inside my enclosed porch i have one of those benches that has a high up back on it with hooks for coats and hats , the bench opens for scarves and gloves and mittens and hats and the top has a mirror and a shelf as well..it only takes up a small spot of floor space but works wonderfully for me..

i also have a nice little 3 deep drawer dresser inside my front door that holds my driving gloves, glasses, mace, sunglasses, etc..for when i go walking (mace for the bad dogs), and go out in the car.. it holds lots of stuff that is handy by the front door.

i have a closet inside that holds our nicer coats and things and also have a wall hook bar with shelf by the back door that holds quick to grab jackets and hats..

[bergere]

We have a small house and dirt is part of living in the country. I shake things off the best I can and I have an old fashion Amish coat stand to hang, jackets, hats and so on near the back door. The shoes are placed by the back door, too.

[willow_girl]

I have a hamper in the garage, lined with a plastic garbage bag which I seal so the garage doesn't smell like cow manure. Have never had a problem with bugs or critters getting into it.

Hats, gloves, flannel shirts that I'm going to wear again usually get left in the truck. Yeah, my truck's kind of a mess inside.

[Callieslamb]

Hooks on the door to the garage - both inside and outside - depending on how dirty they are or how cold it is outside. Nothing like putting on a cold coat on a freezing morning! For gloves, I have a box in the garage. I put the in my pocket for warming for a few minutes on my way to the barn.

[ErinP]

In the mudroom (aka porch) we have several hooks for coats near the door. I also have a couple of cheap plastic baskets hanging on wall-mounted cup hooks for coats/gloves/etc.
And one of those plastic tray jobbies for boots.

Our laundry is just off the mudroom, so anything nasty goes straight to the washer or into "Dad's Laundry" pile.

[ejagno]

We enter our home through the garage also. I have a nice seating area there to remove footwear to hand carry them inside and clean if they are dirty. We do NOT leave any articles of clothing outdoors down here because you will inevitably find wasp, mice, bees or brown recluse in your belongings the next morning. We have several hooks for umbrella's or wet items to drip before bringing them inside.

[sheepish]

We have an enclosed porch. All the barn jackets, boots, etc. go there. "Good" outdoor stuff goes inside, in the coat closet or on the boot trays.