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[mommydama]

I'm going crazy over the amount of stuff we have. I've said this before. One of the worst culprits for us is clothing. There is just too much of it and not only does it spill out of drawers and closets, the laundry is just literally never done. With three tween/middle childhood girls and at least one grandma who loves to buy clothes for them and hand me downs it is out of control. Luci's wardrobe is always 3 times as big Maria's and I never seem to get rid of any of it. It is awful. I did some research online and came up with a minimum clothing list for the fall/winter. I'm going to try and get it down to this and keep it as close to this as possible. I know grandma will add to it some and there will be some special outfits here and there, as well as activity clothing (leos, dance shoes, soccer stuff) but this is going to be my goal.

5 pairs jeans or casual pants (cords, khakis, black, etc)
10 casual shirts
3 sweaters/hoodies
3 casual dressy outfits (knit style dresses or skirts)
1 truly dressy outfit
3 pairs pjs
10 pairs socks
3 pairs tights/leggings
10 pairs underwear
10 undershirts or bras
1 pair dress shoes
1 pair everyday shoes or sneakers
1 pair snow boots
1 coat (3-in-1 style, that gives us a light jacket as well, just have to get Maria a new one)
1 pair gloves
2 pairs glove liners
2 warm caps
1 warm scarf

Does this sound like a lot more than we need? Does it sound like too little? What do your kids wardrobes look like?

I must simplify before I go mad!!

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[altarflame.livejournal.com]

I can't tell if it's because of winter time or not, but we seriously don't have nearly that much. Like...not even nearly nearly. Jake and Isaac, for instance, have about 20 pairs of underwear, probably a dozen pairs of shorts and two pairs of long pants, about 15 tshirts (they're the same size), probaly 5 total hoodies/sweaters/jackets, 4 sets of pjs (they rarely wear them anyway) and a pair of crocs each. That's it.

We have things like socks and scarves in a kind of communal way - when it's the odd cold day we break them out and see what fits who.

I suppose Ananda would be more comparable. I would guess she has 10 pairs of underwear and 12 bras/undershirts right now, 1 pair of jeans, 3 pairs of shorts, 2 skirts, 2 dresses, about 8 tshirts/tank tops, 2 hoodies, 2 pairs of pjs (she mostly wears one pair of pj pants with a cami at night), a pair of sneakers, and a pair of sandals. She's actually a little low right now because she's just growing SO FAST that it's CRAZY. She definitely doesn't have "truly dressy" right now but we don't need it for anything, either. If we did we'd get her something - she's liable to end up with a Christmas or Easter dress but honestly I don't do both of those every year, it's just too much money for something you wear once (that needs shoes, even!)

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

I would not have this much for summer weather either. But in winter we often do a lot of layering, especially on the ski weekends. Last year I was actually kind of hard put to find enough layers especially for Maria. They often had on two pairs of pants (leggings and jeans or two pairs of leggings), two shirts or a shirt and a sweater or hoodie, two pairs of socks....they would end up shivering all morning on the slopes and then stripping down as the day warmed up. Brad intends to go skiing pretty much every weekend this year, so I have to be prepared.

If they want to go out and play in the snow, the same thing happens. We had such an enormous amount of laundry last year during the winter. It tends to snow here nearly everyday and then melt off and be all muddy in the afternoons. So everyone was always muddy and wet. It was gross. This year I'm determined to be more organized about it. But we do need quite a lot.