The girls drawers are always overflowing and it is just hard for them to keep up with it all. Today, I decided to tackle their drawers. I had them remove ALL the clothes from their drawers and stack them in piles: shirts, skirts/shorts, pants, underwear, socks, pjs, swim stuff.
Then I had them choose 5 of each item (except PJs an swim stuff) to keep. This should be PLENTY to last a week - until laundry can be done. Also, since we don't wear dresses very often, I had them pick out their favorite 3 dresses.
Everything else I'm either going to box up for HJ to wear later or I will give away to a local charity.
For the boys, we have by default kept their clothes to a minimum. We don't have any friends with older boys so we don't get the hand-me-downs. In fact, JA runs short on clothes and we typically have to go buy some for him every now and then (like back in Dec when we went to NC and realized he didn't have any jeans or long pants!!)
2 comments:
I need to do the same thing. We get great hand-me-downs and it's so hard to part with them..but we just have too many. Soon. :) trina
Thank you for sharing....we have done the "pick your 5 favorite" as well. It really helps!!
Blessings to you my friend!
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