How do you apportion closet/drawer space in your household?

[Shakespeare]

Alternate thread title: I have ovaries and LOTS of clothes, so do not fuck with me. :7

Having just moved into a bigger apartment (finally), we're in the process of organizing the dresser and closet (translation: I'm the one doing all the organizing). We have a double dresser with six drawers, and the SO claimed three of the drawers, all of which were no more than 1/4 full. When I sweetly informed him that I was going to need one of those drawers, and would redistribute his clothes accordingly, he looked all sad and informed me that wasn't very fair.

I told him to just deal with it, that I was declaring eminent domain.

Yes, I am a closet/drawer nazi. An unapologetic one, in fact. How do you deal with competing clothes storage needs in your house?

[bicentennial_baby]

1. I have the bigger dresser and bigger closet.

Nuff said. :P

[Shakespeare]

2. The best part:

After he got all sad (and marginally outraged), I made him admit that the eminent domain thing was funny. And he still has PLENTY of room for his stuff in the two drawers and in the closet.

[BluRay01]

3. It's pretty easy in our home...

I surrender whatever space is requested, quietly and with a smile.

But we'll be moving into a bigger place soon too, so hopefully there'll be plenty of room for both of us.

[AlCzervik]

4. i have about 80% of the closet and i have a bigger dresser.

i have a lot of shoes, those shoes need space, they just do.

[billyskank]

5. Oh, that's easy.

I get everything.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. lisa gets MUCH MUCH MUCH more space than me

in the hopes that we can contain her mess :)

i dont own very much

[DS1]

7. guns and dildos in the top drawer

baby wipes and ammo in the middle drawer
50,000 cash and a kilo of coke in the bottom drawer



that's my emergency cabinet, anyway.

[Shakespeare]

10. I knew I could count on you to liven up my thread.

:rofl:

[littlebit]

8. Girlfriends stuff takes up every drawer and closet in the house.

All of my stuff is in my truck.

[LaraMN]

9. Dresser and closet one split evenly.

Closet two is apparently "extra coats and MrLaraMN's miscellaneous cords to things we probably don't even own anymore and piles of shit."

[LeftyMom]

11. I don't really worry about it- I have a gigantic walk-in closet and I'm not a clothes horse.

I'm thinking I should put a desk in there and call it my office, because right now it's almost empty.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. My dear Shakespeare...

We each have a dresser...

The closet goes like this:

He has the top rack for his shirts, and I have the bottom...

And the cubby holes are mostly mine...

We just stuck our stuff in as we needed to.

It's a custom house, and our architect laid out the closet very well...

:shrug:

Even in our former homes, though, we never argued about who got what...

It just always seemed to work out...

[Shakespeare]

13. Oh, we didn't argue about it.

He just wanted to get in a token whimper before he shrugged off the inevitable. :rofl: