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Syncletica
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Can someone please either 1)tell me what they do or 2)lead me to a previous thread that tells what clothes and how many of each you keep on hand? I want to declutter and am scared to give away clothes if we may need them.
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I try to keep 5 short sleeves, 5 long sleeves, 5 jeans, 2 sweatshirts, 3 dresses or dress pants, pajamas, socks and underclothes. It's enough to get them through a week without doing laundry.
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I make 7-10 outfits(underwear, top, bottom, socks) for each child per season. 1-2 sweaters. 2-3 church outfits. A pair of sneakers and church shoes. 2 winter coats-as I found ds was going to church in a muddy coat from playing outside when he had only 1  1-2 winter hats. 2-3 pair mittens. Lot's of socks-we wear them around the house, the dog collects them, etc. One pair winter boots. 1-2 swimsuits.
Ds gets no hand me downs so we shop each season for what he needs. This year it will be a lot, he has grown so much. Dd gets gobs of hand me downs and I just put them in big bins. One for warm weather, one for cold. Each season we go shopping for outfits in the boxes and put what we think might fit again next season away. I only give away what doesn't fit as some seasons we have to do a mid season shop in the boxes as she has grown or has trashed her clothes from playing so hard. I am so happy to have her hand me downs.
It does help to limit clothes. Reminds my kids to do their wash
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Syncletica,
I think that clothes storage depends on your needs. We live in a very warm climate so I do not keep coats or turtlenecks and each kid has a couple of sweaters and long pants. Other than that they have a bunch of short sleeve shirts and shorts/skorts/skirts. They each have quite a few dress up clothes but that's because we dress up quite a bit in this part of the country. (Even for birthday parties)
I think you need to start with your needs firsts and then the amount of usable storage you have. For example, we only have one small closet between all 4 kids so we fold into dressers. That means that we make sure that the kids don't have more than fits into their drawers (the old adage everything has a home comes into play here  )
Also if you have two girls right in a row, you might tend to keep more rather than if there is a big gap of ages. I have two girls first and then two boys. We give everything away after my second girl because I figure it will be at least 7 years before another girl wears it. I give all boy things away after my youngest because I simply have run out of room. We do have a great HS group here that tends to pass things along to one another so I don't feel the need to keep it all.
When we lived up north, we did as mom2mpr did and stored things according to season it made it so much easier to find that sweater when you needed it.
HTH!
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I have a more elaborate system but my kids are close together so it's more logical and easier for me to keep each size in one tote. With long underwear in a seperate tote, coats in a seperate storage space, socks kept seperate (since shoe size doesn't necessarily agree with clothing size) and swimsuits kept seperate.
But I do get a number of handme downs and the system I have helps me know how much to keep so that that really cute outfit, isn't kept if it won't fit.. or at least not unless something else goes to make room.
I keep a few turtle necks (usually white, red and navy) and then about a week's worth of long sleeves and of short sleeve tee's. A couple church outfits, often a nicer one for Christmas or Easter, some play dresses/skirts for the girls, jeans (a few for the girls more for the boys, but 3-5 in general) shorts/capris in season with fewer pants out, couple pairs of jammies, couple pairs of long underwear, and a couple pairs of sweats.
Also in general bigger kids have fewer clothes than smaller kids, babies and toddlers that NEED extra changes of clothing just need more clothes. The nice thing about my tote system is that since the clothes are smaller more fits in the totes for the little ones and less for the bigger kids
But there's a couple things going on, we're given a good bit and so I have totes pretty much in all kids sizes (up to a girls 16 and boys 14), we are a good distance (130miles) from any significant shopping either new or used clothes. So it's worth it to me to use the space for storage and we live in a climate that doesn't hasten deterioration.
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