16 [31 days] how do you organise your kids’ clothes?
Friday, October 21st, 2011
Ashley Shelby says:
Hi! I need to know how to organize kids’ clothes. I have 3 kids that share one room and its so hard to separate play clothes from school clothes. Desperately in need.
So I thought I’d show Ashley how I do our kids’ clothes since my two also share a room.
They have a small chest of drawers and about 0.5 m of hanging space for jackets, warmer clothes, etc. now that it’s spring.
On the top there are two smaller drawers which we use for vests and leggings. I have short and long-sleeved vests for days when the weather’s cooler.
The next drawer is Connor’s and the bottom one is Kendra’s (no particular reason – just how it worked out)
In both their drawers, I have one of those baskets on the right with their babygrows (for sleep) and pj’s.
Let’s look at Kendra’s drawer first.
Can you tell I like neat piles?
I make sets of clothes so that ALL the clothes get worn. I found when I left it up to their nanny to dress them she let them wear the same stuff and they never got a chance to wear everything, so then I stepped in. It’s easy for me to put their clothes ready when they’re already organised in sets.
I also have piles of clothes that are slightly inappropriate at the moment – it’s not blazing hot yet (really high 20′s and early 30′s) so the kids don’t wear sleeveless tops and really short shorts yet.
That’s the pile in the front.
This is where Nanny V puts the laundry that is ironed but unsorted by me into sets.
I generally get to it on the weekend.
Since my kids don’t go to pre-school, I have sets of clothes for home and different sets for going out, so that they look slightly more decent when they see other people.
and sometimes we have cool weather so I keep about 3 – 4 long-sleeved t-shirts out – they’re not all packed away til it’s “proper” summer of 28 and up. Celsius.
Connor’s drawers are very similarly arranged except he seems to have more shorts than t-shirts. I think it’s because we got lots of stuff from my sister and he outgrows clothes quicker on the top than on the bottom.
It’s worked out though because he also often needs a change of shorts sometime in the afternoon if he’s messed while playing.
This is what I use to organise their clothes for the week. It’s a fabric organiser I bought years ago at Sheet Street (for the South Africans).
There are 6 “shelves” – in winter we wear such bulk because our houses are not air-conditioned so I can only do 3 days’ clothes at a time. I would then layer it Connor, Kendra, Connor, Kendra, Connor, Kendra.
In summer the clothes are light so I can put both C & K’s clothes on the same shelf and put out 6 days at a time – LOVE that convenience.
Here is a pic of two days’ clothes to show you.
