OOooh, money looking for a place to be spent!

Yep, just how much more can I possibly spend! I want to spend MORE!

If any of them were in my house it would just be an almost empty room. I don't have enough clothing or shoes to fill one.

Yawn.

Do you have children? I "inherited" a ton of absolute $h!t from my mother, who thought all the stuff in the world was wonderful and necessary.

Nope, not for me. Too ostentatious . Some of those would make me feel as if I were shopping in department store. We downsized considerably 20 years ago, and it was soooo liberating. Now, I feel like I could live in our RV . At my age, less is definitely more.

I have a ton of stuff. Not clothes. My clothes are rags but I have something like 23 antique (and vintage) cupboards. This house has 10 rooms, but too many even for this house. I have probably 10,000 marbles. I have at least 30 or more big jars full of them. I don't know how many because a lot of them are in cupboards in the other house. I have jars full of all kinds of crap. Buttons, junk, cookie cutters, little scoops, measuring spoons. Weird junk. I even have a little jar, shaped like a man's head that is full of teeth. All kinds of animal teeth. None human. I like weird crap. I remember what my mother used to say about her junk...."Well, it's not eating anything"...meaning, it isn't costing anything to keep it. I will say this though....before she died, she gave away almost everything she had. If anyone came over and remarked on something...she would insist they take it.

Here is Joan Crawford's shoe closet featured in the Mommie Dearest movie. I think the backlight sets it off.

The room beyond this closet was her clothes closet & dressing room.

My confusion comes from the impression people who can afford the space would never be caught wearing the same thing twice so why the need to store it?

Somebody has to keep our Consumerist Economy going because it sure won't be me!

I also could live in an RV, so the very idea of these rooms confounds me. I am shaking my head at a few, with bright natural light. Really, glass front doors and a skylight? I guess these people don't keep clothes long enough that the sunlight fades and rots them.

If someone has the money and they are aren't hurting anyone including their own self, then I don't have a problem with them spending their money on big closets. It's their money and their own choice.

These closets aren't to my taste. There may be some good organizational tips in here. For instance having a bench so you can put your shoes on there or mirrors so the clothes don't get brought into the bedroom. If I had my way, we would have larger closets and no chests and dressers in the bedroom. I prefer more functional closets with what I consider less wasted space. Some of these closets are more like dressing rooms.

I have always had a closet that my husband and I share until we moved into the house we live in now. My closet is very nice with built-in shelves but here's the funny thing, I am not crazy about fashion so I use my closet for home storage. I once went years with only three pairs of shoes. I have never had a budget for fancy clothing. We are about to go on a trip and my daughter kindly told me the truth that I really NEED some new clothes. It's hard for me to justify spending as clothes don't hold up as well as they seemed to 15 - 20 years ago. I remember when Talbot's and Nordstrom clothes wore like iron and looked good.

I have a large closet too and am certainly no slave to fashion. I have more than enough clothing and I purge my closet whenever it seems to be getting too full. I refuse to have large amounts of clothing I don't wear and may never wear again. My personality requires it to be organized and efficient and never to excess.

We are about to go on a trip and my daughter kindly told me the truth that I really NEED some new clothes. It's hard for me to justify spending as clothes don't hold up as well as they seemed to 15 - 20 years ago.

Sabbath, Splurge and buy the new clothes. Buy a few items just because they are pretty and make you look good. Get comfortable shoes so can walk in them. Most likely you are going to take pictures while you are on vacation. You will enjoy looking at those pictures more if you are wearing something that is flattering and looks great. Enjoy your vacation!

Some of those closets are beautiful spaces and I enjoyed looking at them.

I can't help but be amused at how others get upset though.

Every single one of us one this board lives a better life with bigger houses, cars and more things than 80% of the world.

How you feel about these peoples wasteful excess is probably how many feel about us.

Probably best we don't judge others unless we are willing to have someone question why we need a 2000+ square foot house for only one or two people.

This isn't 'storage'. These are recreations of departments within upscale fashion stores. These people love to shop so much they've brought the concept home. Is there a ladies maid to keep everything in order?

Given the seating in some of these photos, I wonder if the owner entertains in them. (I have a little ottoman in my closet -- but not a pair of chaises.)

Years ago a major glossy magazine --Life, or perhaps National Geographic -- photographed families all over the world, posing them in front of their homes, along with all of their possessions. I remember one family lived in a yurt and had about three pots, some baskets, and the clothes they had on. The US family required a double spread. You couldn't count all the goods spread out on the lawn of their ordinary American home: Furniture, large and small appliances, carpeting, rugs, pictures, clothes, toys, bicycles, cars, a trailer, lawn equipment, snowmobiles, dishes, pots and pans, and on and on.

It is excess. But it's their excess. Why not? I don't think I'd do that, but I'd have a nicer closet than I currently have. It's nicely sized, but it's not pretty in any way. Maybe I could do something fun in there.

Texas, it was NPR. Thanks for pointing it out. It looks like it'll be interesting.

WOW, .. some of the closets are bigger than my living room!!!

Moni

This is a different world than the one in which I've ever lived ... but when I lived in Korea just after that war mainly helping refugees get back on their feet, I got to see first-hand much of the difference between the only lifestyle available to them and mine, living in, by our standards, a very modest house.

Isn't the great differences a major part of the issue that resulted in a flood of refugees/migrants moving from a strongly disadvantaged/and/or autocrat-ruled area into Europe in recent years?

We're immune?

I think not.

What's the major difference between the refugee/migrant situation in Europe and in northern North America?

A big body of water.

Will we think it necessary to build a wall along the Atlantic seacoast - outside of the cities on the coast, e.g. New York?

And we have huge and increasing differences in lifestyle closer to home.

ole joyful

Isn't there a lady in Texas who has a closet twice as big as my house?

"Isn't the great differences a major part of the issue that resulted in a flood of refugees/migrants moving from a strongly disadvantaged/and/or autocrat-ruled area into Europe in recent years?"

No. In the past decade, the push from Africa and the Middle East to Europe has been mostly a result of war and other types of civil strife and unrest. Economic differences have long been present and a factor but for recent major refugee movements, only a very minor factor.

I own one pair of shoes, one pair of winter boots and a pair of flip flops (which I pretty much live in, outside of work). I do need to replace the shoes. I have about a dozen dresses for work. They are all from Goodwill (a friend used to volunteer there and knows I won't shop for myself) and I have had them all well over 10 years. So, time for some new work dresses. I don't wear pants or slacks. I have about a dozen, very nice, sweaters that I haven't worn for over ten years, that I need to have dry cleaned and find someone who will sell them online for me.

I've tried shopping online. Clothes just aren't something I've had any luck with. I wish someone could just take a mannequin of my body shopping for work dresses. lol

And, no, I don't need more closet space.

To each his own.....

Not my preference to spend my money that way.

I LOVE ALL those closets. There was a time when I had shoes and clothes to fill them. My house has cedar lined winter closets and a valuables closet, nothing like those shown......but still a little "extra" opulence from the previous owners. Now.....no. I'm not working a high end job, construction warrants a different....low-end couture. :0) Altho my painters pants are a pair of Tommy H. cargo pants......now covered in ten different shades of paint blobs and my paint splattered shoes, either Merrills or New Balance......not a Louboutin.