I'm not much help because I only have a few winter items. I have room to hang them in a fabric multi-garment hanging bag in one of the closets.

I keep out of season clothing in plastic storage bins on the top shelf of my closet.

We have hooks in the hall for in season coats and jackets. The ones not in use are stored in the hall coat closet. Our climate is moderate so all we really change out from season to season is sleeve length on our shirts. I use plastic storage bins for the few items that are truly seasonal like winter socks and Cuddle Duds.

One small closet for DH, one small for me. So we pack out-of-season clothes in clear plastic bins (BB&B, Lowe's, etc.) with a few packets of silica gel and then store in the basement. I place a piece of paper in each facing out that lists season and size (the second you throw away fat clothes, you jinx yourself!).

Meant to add that coats, scarves, and such I first seal in vacuum bags to create more room.

Push them to the side in my closet.

The idea of storing seasonal clothing seems so amusing to me. I suppose it's because of where I live and our extreme temperature changes.

We experience wide temperature fluctuations all year round. Last year we were swimming in our pool by the end of April. In 2015, we still had snow at the end of April. This year we haven't gotten in the the pool yet. We've had some days with mid to upper 80s, followed by storms with highs in the 40s.

The same holds true for "winter". We could have freezing or below freezing temps one day and 60s or 70s the next.

Even if I were to attempt to pack up seasonal clothing, there would be maybe 5 or 6 items of clothing that just don't get worn until the temps are well below freezing or it's super hot.

The rest of the year, it's all about layers. You could leave your house in the morning with the temp in the 30s or 40s and be baking in your own clothes in the afternoon when it is in the 60s to 80s.

I've worn shorts in December and sweats in June.

Must be the reason for "Texas sized closets"!! Ha ha

We have to store all of our clothing accessible year round!

Add my name to Texas Gem's post! For me, it is the same here, in OKC. But I also don't have that many clothes, that I need the space for the "other" season. All stays put year round.

I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever put the winter clothes away this year. I'm wearing a hoodie as I write this, and I haven't dared move the turtlenecks from my dresser.

My situation is much like Sarah's. When this house was built people had an outfit for going to church and a few things to wear on the farm, and that was it. My bedroom doesn't have a closet, and there are no closets downstairs at all. I'm grateful for my big attic.

I gave away more than 1/2 my clothes in January. I've never stored seasonal clothes. If they don't fit in my closet or my dresser year round, I've got too many. And I had too many........ Now I have plenty of space. The way I see it, I can only wear one outfit a day. I wear a uniform at work, so five days a week, I wear that then come home and put on my comfy pj's. So that leaves just two outfits needed for the weekends. lol Seriously, I have more than that, but I'm planning on a second purge here soon, and many of the clothes I kept still haven't left my dresser or closet. Why keep what I never wear?

Since I always worked in well air conditioned and heated buildings I always wore layers. The only thing that might be "stored" was the winter coats that were kept in the hall closet. I cannot wear wool so that was never something I needed to be concerned about but one year I did have a problem with things that were labeled acrylic developing holes from some type of large grey worm that once it morphed turned into a tiny hard shelled bug.

I keep them in a big plastic tote under the bed. We have a closet in the office where I store my out of season coats. I just keep them on hangers with a towel thrown over them to keep the shoulders free of dust.

I have too many summer and winter t-shirts.

Were you also asking about seasonal purses and shoes? ;)

I've got tons of space, no problem. At my last house there were winter closets, lined in cedar for storing winter clothes. I've seen zippered plastic bags for storing under a bed.

Being as it is just me, I have two clothes closets: warm and cold weather.

I rotate myself, not my clothing. i have three closets for clothing and another downstairs for coats. The coat close has all seasons, the others are have seasonal.

Thank you all for ideas and suggestions. We don't have a basement or an attic, but we do have a storage room with shelving in the garage. I could fit a tub containing the big coats and thick wool sweaters in there.

We seem to have two seasons here - freezing cold rainy/snowy winter and roasting hot dry drummers with a few weeks of mild weather in spring and fall. It often seems like those mild weeks are growing shorter each year and people often remark that we go straight from summer to winter and from winter to summer. I really need those heavy winter clothes during the winter and have absolutely no need for a light jacket, let alone a puffy down parka, in the summer.

Debby, your point is well taken. I know I have too many clothes. Clothes are my weakness and I seem to develop attachments to them that makes it difficult for me to let them go. Yet, when I do a purge, I don't miss them once they are gone. I need to follow the rules getting rid of things I haven't worn for six months and thzt for each new thing that comes into the house something has to leave the house.

Blfenton, while I love shoes, I don't seem to accumulate them the way I do clothing. Purses have never been an issue for me. I've never been one to swap out my purses on a regular basis. I have a winter purse and a summer purse and that's pretty much it.

Like some others have commented, I live in a mild weather area and I don't really have seasonal clothing.

I move my winter (and long sleeve tops and warmer pants) to the bottom drawers, and the short sleeve tops and lighter pants to the top ones. Reverse in fall(or winter) hanging stuff stays put.

We have extra closets to store off season clothing. I also have a cedar chest where I store foldables.

Moved from a big house to a small house, retired, kept only a basic wardrobe. I keep out of season clothes in 3 large plastic bins in the attic. I have too many summer t-shirts and winter sweat pants. Most of these are a little too ragged to donate, so I might as well keep them. My goal is to store only one plastic bin's worth of out of season stuff.

we r pretty such 4 seasons here, so lots of clothes, jackets, hats, gloves etc..

most of my clothes are in my cedar chest. DH's in rubbermaid tote...out of season jackets & coats get moved to cedar closet.

its an on-going space struggle so we always purge when we change out our clothes...

My off-season clothing & shoes are stored in 3 baskets atop my closet.

My newly adopted philosophy is if they don't fit in there, I don't need it. :)

I long for the days when ones dry cleaner stored the winter clothes when one took them to be cleaned. It was SO much easier!

This week will be the "Big Changeover" and I will have a grandson to do it for me with my supervision. Much will go to the drycleaners. Other things, will go to my late husband's closet where I hang a moth ball cake. The sweaters are all going to the cleaners and when they come back, said grandson will then slip a moth ball packet into each cleaner bag, and they will go in the big armoire in DD's old BR. He will already have taken out all my summer shorts and t-shirt tops. I will throw all my leggings and washable winter pants in the laundry, he'll take them to the basement, I'll wash them, and he'll come back and haul them to the 2nd floor and put them in that armoire.

It's a royal pain...

Like Elmer, I have almost no seasonal clothing, but I do have some winter coats that I store in the attic, in case I have to visit a place that has a real winter. Otherwise, I wear the same clothes all year. I have one or two jackets that I push to the back of the closet for days that might be cool, including a windbreaker that I might wear if it happens to rain. I store umbrellas in corners by the front door and patio door to use for the very light rain that we sometimes have. We had light rain today, but it was not enough to need the umbrella or windbreaker. If I have anything wool, I store it with mothballs in plastic garment bags. I bought wool overcoats for when I had to go to NY during the winter, but I haven't been to NY in the winter for over 10 years.

I wear shorts 12 months of the year here, and I only have a few long-sleeved shirts, but I wear those in the summer as much as in the winter. When I lived in Texas, I was surprised by how many men wore long-sleeved shirts in the summer, especially in Houston.

I've done a few things over the years, depending on where I was living at the time: Under bed storage bags, in plastic totes on the top shelf of my closet, and in jumbo Ziploc bags in my storage locker. The under bed storage bags (much like these) were the most convenient for me.

It's interesting to read how different people deal with their seasonal clothing. Than you everyone for your thoughts on the subject. Lars, your closet is so well organized and tidy. I'd love to have something like that, but it would need to be five times bigger!

I think what I'll do is put the heavy winter coats and gear in a covered tub in the storage room. That will allow me to move the light jackets to the coat closet and open up some space in my closet.

Future steps will include the rule that for each new thing that comes in, an existing item has to go. :-)

I've tried to keep the 'new in', 'one thing out' with DH who seems to have more clothes than I do, Although they seem to become more and more casual things any more, we so seldom really dress up these days.

But I'm (we) another who doesn't really have seasonal clothing. Our coastal Springs and Summer are normally cooler with only a few days of exception than farther inland. We typically don't get quite as cold in winter. I have all the closet space I need, and have taken advantage of that by hanging on to things I haven't been wearing. I really need to do something about that - I've noticed I have things in closets that look dusty on shoulders. Keeping clothing more edited would be easier on me.

But I mostly layer, and have just a few lightweight things for those rare very warm days. I do have a winter coat that I have just recently stopped wearing for a few months, it will probably come back out about Oct/Nov. But I don't put it away other than its regular place in my foyer coat closet ;0)