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It happens to everyone eventually – the sudden demand to “clean up that bedroom or ELSE!” These are the times we're happy to have closets with closable doors. But how much will those closets really hold?
When figuring how much space is in a closet (and how much junk we can quickly fit in it), we're talking about space in three dimensions – length, width, and height. We're also putting three dimensional objects into the closet, so we need to figure out volumes – the volume of the closet itself and the volume of what we hope will fit in it...fast!
Let's assume we have a closet that is 36” long, 24” deep (wide) and 84” high. The interior space of this closet is in the shape of a rectangular prism, so the volume is simply length x width x height, or 36”x 24”x84”, for a total of 72576 cubic inches of volume.
To make things simple, let's also assume that we have to cram only one kind of item into our closet....dirty T-shirts, and lots of them. We roll each T-shirt into a tube. A medium-sized T-shirt rolled this way is in the shape of a right regular cylinder with dimensions of approximately 9” height and a radius of 1.5” (there are other ways of rolling T-shirts, of course). The volume formula for this shape is pi x radius2 x height, and using 3.14 for pi, this generates a volume of approximately 64 inches3 per T-shirt.
This means that we could fit 72756 / 64, or nearly 1155, T-shirts in the closets WITHOUT crunching them together and getting them all wrinkled.
Happy cleaning!
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