As I start weeding through the kids clothes - trying to get rid of some winter & add in some spring - I realize (again!) that theyall have too many clothes. I save alot of what the bigger kids have to hand down to the little ones, and we get ALOT of hand-me-downs from friends. It seems I rarely even need to shop unless I am looking for something specific (which is not often - I am lucky that my kids are not very picky) or they are in need of new shoes.
But, as blessed as we are to have so many (cheap/free) clothes - I am tired of the mess. The kids get into their things and clothes end up all over their rooms. I wash clothesthat are not even dirty, because this is the new way for the bigger kids to "clean" their rooms - throw it in the dirty! I have threatened on more than one occasion to get rid of everything, leaving them exactly a weeks worth of clothes. Seven-ten outfits, period. It seems it would be so liberating :) I have at least three loads of clean clothes in the basement in baskets, as well as a few dirty...and their closets/dressers are already full. It is ridiculous.
Am I the only one? What do you do to keep the clothes in your house under control? I feel like I am CONSTANTLY getting rid of things, but it is not enough. A friend of mine told me she always has a "goodwill basket" near where she folds and she throws things in there all of the time, if even just to get rid of things she is tired of seeing (LOL). Do you do the same? Do you have too much of something, or am I just showing my pack-rat tendencies?
Help me....the clothes are taking over our house!!
We all have a ton of clothes too. You are not alone. I justify needing more by realizing the climate we live in really means we DO need more to cover all the seasons...but probably not as much as we have.
Posted by: Heather | April 14, 2009 at 10:09 PM