I wonder if it would help your clutter if they HAD the "proper" amount of clothes, but you only kept the amount they really need to wear at the time in their drawers. That way you could always go "shopping" in the garage if something got stained or ripped, or you discovered they just never wore two of their shirts and needed to swap. When I worked for the Currans (and Kari was the most anti-clutter person I had ever met) I was always going through the girls drawers and packing most of it away in the garage. Most of the problem there was that Mary Catherine changed her clothes about five times a day and threw the discards all over her room.
That doesn't help here, since everything we own goes in the same 450 square feet, so extra stuff is extra stuff no matter what.
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Date: 2010-09-06 02:15 pm (UTC)That doesn't help here, since everything we own goes in the same 450 square feet, so extra stuff is extra stuff no matter what.