God awful heaps are good. They work. LOL.

In summer, my woolens are put away. I have a little rosewood dry sink where my winter hats, gloves and mufflers are stored in warm weather. It is the same place my summer blouses, shorts and sundresses are stored in winter.

The cold weather accessories.......well.........a knit pea cap and muffler hang on a coat rack in the solarium by my back door along with a set of ear muffs. This is work garb I use daily for my chores. A quilted flannel shirt and work coat hang beneath them on "my" hook. In the downstairs foyer closet by the front door are my fancier caps and tams, mufflers and gloves, because this is where my better dress or errand coats are located. The hats, gloves and scarves are in my plastic stackable bin on the shelf over the hangers. I'm not a very O/C person where clothes are kept, but dang.....I've got a system for those!

I also keep an emergency hat in the car, and sometimes a scarf and sweater for times I run out forgetting to grab them.

At my last house, I had a knotty pine half wall with a slate top that had a hidden door. I stashed all the winter stuff there. Currently, most of my scarves and gloves are in the bottom drawer of a two drawer rubbermaid file cabinet. I have a few scarves actually draped around the collars of coats that I wear most frequently and one or two coats that I keep the coordinating gloves in the pockets of the coats. My wardrobe/choice of scarf is usually dictated by my mood unless it's a "function". Friends usually say "I couldn't wear it, but it's "you"." LOL I also have gloves in the glove box of the car. My hats......sigh. I have a few hatboxes, but then I forget about them and don't get to wear them. I have a few fedora type hats, a wool beret that my former boss gave me that she wore when she was going through chemo (she has made it 13 years so far!) and a pillbox or two. I want the Clean House show people to come and build a custom closet for me.

Talk about not being able to relate! I think I had a scarf once. I don't know how you all manage it. I would just shrivel up and shiver away.

I HATE COLD

We keep out winter coats hanging on pegs in laundry room. They hang there all year round. Some winters, they may be used only once or twice. This week, I put on mine to go to the supermarket for the weekly groceries. I put my hand in the pockets, and Lo! to my surprise, there was a pair of gloves that I had forgotten all about. So I guess that's where I keep my gloves....all ready to use if I need a coat.

I also found two shopping lists from last year. I'll think about the cold problems next summer when I can't stand to go out in the sweaty heat.

Bundle up People. I salute you.

boo on you. Actually,I don't know what's worse, the cold or the heat and humidity you have down there in Georgia. Then there's Texas..they have both and sometimes it seems in the same week.

Our foyer has two small closets, each with a standard door (as opposed to a slidey-style closet door). Hanging on the door on the inside of one closet is a shoe organizer... the kind with the clear vinyl pockets. Each pocket is neatly jammed with pairs of gloves, hats, scarves, earbands and whatnot. They're actually sort of organized and I can see what's in each pocket. I also keep one of those "five pair of trousers hangers" in one of the closets, and store several dress scarves on it.

On the back of the other closet door is a series of coat hooks. A scarf is draped over each hook, and there are also two elastic bands covered with purse hooks so when we entertain, I can put my guests' purses in the closet when I take their coats.

Steve likes to wear felt dress hats in the winter (he's a mutant, loves frigid weather, and hardly ever gets cold). His hats are on the shelves above the coats, along with some of my summer gardening hats, oh, and there's a strip of hooks on one of the inside walls for baseball hats...

But to be honest, we also have a mess of bundling supplies on the closet floor, and looking around the breakfast nook, Steve has hung two of his jackets on the backs of chairs (this is necessary if he gets them wet or snowy... they need to dry out before they go away, but he never gets to the "away" part...)

The more I think about it, I should probably cull through the collection and donate what we don't use.

We're getting to the part of winter where I'm numb to it and just skip wearing a coat if I'm only going to the grocery store or running a couple close errands or checking the mail or messing with the garbage cans at the curb.

I'm laughing here, because I relate to the numb to cold statement. Hubby is a retired butcher. That means he spent many decades carving meat in temperatures slightly above freezing. He is never cold. I bought him two coats for Christmas, because he set out to go to a singing engagement in late December, when it was snowing and the wind chill was minus twenty five with nothing on but a hooded and quilted flannel shirt over his dress clothes.

I layer up to work outside, and much of my working in the g'houses mean I come and go into heated and unheated areas for the whole workday and also do outside chores then. I HATE bundling up too and yeah, you get numb if you're only out there fifteen minutes, or if you are doing hard physical work, you get hot and start stripping off coats. One should, however, think about covering up when you get to those crucial temperatures when unprotected flesh actually freezes in a matter of minutes. LOL. As long as I have my earmuffs on, and my feet are dry, I'm pretty OK with it.

I realized we finally were financially secure when I was able to keep a pair of gloves in each of my cold weather coats or jackets! No frantic searching to find my (formerly) one pair of gloves. Now, the trick is to remember to put them back into the pockets before I put the coat away. Hats and scarves are a different story. They're tossed onto the shelf in the hall closet and all fall down on my head when I decide I need one. I really prefer something with a hood that can be snugged around my ears. That way, head, neck and ears are all covered.

DH's coat or jacket is usually draped over a kitchen chair. He says he'll be going outside again soon, so why put it back in the closet? (I can only stand it for so long, then rehang it!)

Gee, you're all so organized! The winter coats here end up on the back of the couch by the back door, if I need gloves I look under the beds or in the pups mouth, they love to steal them. The scarfs are usually in the kitchen. In short it usually turns into a "treasure hunt" if we need to go outside in the cold.

Cheap plastic drawer unit inside the hall closet. Scarves in one drawer, gloves and silk scarves in the other. Hats on the top shelf of the closet.

Ideally: - so far this year, I've misplaced three pairs of gloves (including my heavy, insulated work gloves, which is really annoying), my warmest hat, and one of Himself's hats.

It's not going well this winter.

Sara...I have a bunch of onesies ( I'm always hopeful the othersies will turn up) I could send you some. LOL

Cold? Didn't even have a coat on for the trip to the wood pile, like several of the above about now the 7 degree weather feels pretty good. Much better that the 20 below of a few weeks ago. Leone and I will go for our daily walk in a few minutes, when its this chilly we usually only walk about 8 or 10 blocks instead of the normal mile. Winter clothing seems to be always with us, just pushed a little farther back.

numb.......It hit twenty the other day and it felt like a heat wave, especially at work. First I ditched the hoodie, then the turtleneck, then the long sleeved cotten shirt and I was sweating in a t-shirt. I couldn't take that off, i wished that I had put on a tank. We do work inside, but the many bay doors are constantly up and down. I think my blood has thickened or something.

I worked for awhile at an art pottery, on the finishing line. The building was ancient, and I am not even sure our end of it was heated. The kiln, however, was near my work station. You could literally be freezing on one side of your body and burning up on the other.

Gosh, Marda---you made me look around for them---some hats are on the flat railing on the way to the front door...some or all of the 5 mufflers are on the backs of chairs or the railing. Gloves are either on the seat of the PU or somewhere between the back door and the kitchen and so are the 3 different jackets I throw on when it's too chilly for my usual 2 shirts and a vest. I hate putting on a jacket----always wind up taking it off, unless I'm walking the dog---we do a circle---starting out into the wind and winding up on the last stretch back into the wind again, full-force.
Like Sara, half of my gloves are missing and I have to wear gardening/work gloves to run errands, what-have-you.
The things I never misplace are the good old hiking boots---they stay on 'til it hits the mid 80's again---feel nekkid without them. Hate it when I have to put on Girl-Shoes.

Good to see you guys for a bit!!!

Well since it never really gets super cold here, I usually stock up on knit gloves at someplace like Target & they're in the pockets of every coat I own.I don't have a winter hat anymore & while I kept a couple of scarves that i really liked when we moved south, I can't remember the last time I wound one around my neck.

The stories from you guys up north are making me remember a lot of frozen solid days that I'm thankful not to have to deal with anymore.

I hibernate when it gets below 40 and the only pair of gloves I own any more is in a coat pocket hanging in the closet.

I HATE COLD also.

I can take the heat and humidity but keep the cold away from me.

Good to see you Kathy Jane.

Hey KJ! Good to "see" you! I thought of you last night. I went to a friend's for dinner and she had the coolest cat. He was an eight month old kitten with 13 toes (complete with pads and claws) on his two front feet. Little bugger has giant mitten shaped front paws and opposable thumbs! If he figures the can opener or the doors out, she's in trouble. Chester is as smart as he is rambunctious, and was giving her two greyhounds a run for their money. I was thinking of you because I imagined you'd be tickled to meet such a feline character.

Good to see you, and if you feel up to it, bring us up to date!

with four kids the key is everyday hats and gloves go into the left sleeve of the coat (yes even me) and extras go in a bin with the persons name on it on the top shelf of hall closet, extra mittens (that I buy at the end of winter for .25 a pair are in the trunk of both cars, etc.

it all looks so wonderful until about now when it is in a heap at the back door and must be remanaged every sunday- lucky me today is sunday:)

My system is almost identical to Jazz-'s... only with a single closet holding the winter stuff. Shoebags are the best invention for corraling scarfs, muffs, knit hats, mittens and gloves. The primary difference is that I also have a set of hooks on the wall beside the utility room's exterior door, which hold the windbreaker jackets (almost year-round wear here) and raincoats; hooks above hold DH's caps and my sunhats. Clothespins nailed to the walls hold the gardening gloves. I really hate wasting time looking for gloves.

I don't care for the cold, but my blood does -eventually- thicken enough that I don't bother with a heavy coat unless the wind is blowing the chill-degrees into the single digits. Well, maybe it's not the blood thickening so much as it's wearing two layers of mid-heavyweight silk undershirts, lol.

Michelle, I am totally laughing at "dress scarves". Oh my gosh. Yall are killing me. We're exempt from dressing up when it is cold here, substance over style.

M, I have a basket with all the things. But it's only as big as say, a fruit bowl. I do have dress gloves that I might wear with a suit instead of a coat. They stay on top of the godawful pile in the basket. Keeping my hands warm in lieu of all the layers seems to work pretty well.

Hey KJ...glad to see you out of hibernation. Did you see your shadow? LOL sure hope you pop in more often,I miss you.

I know what Michelle means about dress scarves,except here they call them neck wraps because they are of a lighter wool or whatever and you can wrap them around your neck and wear them with a skirt and sweater,good pants and boots or anything actually. My outside scarves are full of cockle burrs,pieces of spruce trees,dog hair, and yesterday I took a couple bird feathers off one of them. Go figure.