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fsuadamson
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Posted: May 22 2006 at 11:55pm \| IP Logged

Ok ladies,

This is one area I seem to really be struggling at that I need some HELP

. I don't have a problem with laundry therefore we are never in need of a lot of clothing per child. I have never had a problem organizing the kids clothes from newborn to about age 6yrs. We just keep those in buckets/bags labeled "Girls newborn to 3 months" or "Boys 2T Fall/Winter" etc.

But after this age when all the kids start growing at different rates and then I have to add-in seasonal clothing I get real disorganized

. For one the two oldest girls differ not only in sizes but tastes. Then I have the problem of my 10yodd who will go shopping and we buy a couple pairs of shorts and she ends up wearing ONE pair everyday

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I would love to hear from families that have a system in place. When do you purchase your seasonal clothes? Do you have a method so all the new clothes are worn evenly? How do you judge for growth spurts?

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Bridget
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 4:01pm \| IP Logged

I guess no one has conquered the clothes monster!

We shop mostly resale for clothes, so I buy any item we wear that looks good. Sizes don't matter, it will fit someone soon.

My girls wear mostly skirts and dresses so they tend to fit a while longer than pants. The boys only wear kahki pants for church and black or blue jeans other days. This makes it easy to match shirts.

We did have a nice, well organized family closet, but it has been dismantled, the clothes are in horrible piles everywhere in that room. The bedrooms only have what the kids wear for the current season. This makes the bedrooms easy to maintain.

For off size, off season clothes, smaller, well marked boxes work better for me. The larger boxes get too messy when we go to look for something.

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Katie
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Posted: May 24 2006 at 12:45am \| IP Logged

I don't really know if this is a solution, but here is what I do. Ds (8) has a dresser. Pretty much all of his clothes fit in it. Every once in a while I cull things that are too small/worn and donate them. My other kiddoes are all girls.

I have a large rubbermaid tub that stores all winter "gear" - snowboots, gloves, hats, snowpants etc. - for the whole family.

The girls have a dresser and a closet. I also have a large rubbermaid tub for off-season clothes. In the summer, it is full of warm skirts, pants, sweaters; in the winter it holds shorts, tees, and sundresses. I do not organize by size, just throw them all in together. When the new season rolls around, we have a grand old time digging throught the box, determining what still fits, what still looks nice, what matches what, and then fill their drawers and closets. I can then see if I need to buy anything extra. Anything I want to keep (too small for the 4yo, too big for the 2yo, for example), I just store away in a smaller tub. (My big tub has the winter clothes in). I donate what I know I won't use. If I buy something for ds that is too big, I just add it to the appropriate tub.

Not much of a system really, but it works, except for those cold two weeks at the beginning of May after I'd brought out the summer clothes and steadfastly refused to open the warm clothes bin! They always have a sweatshirt or a fleece and a couple of long-sleeved tees, plus at least one pair of jeans, so they survivied!

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