If you have children that are the same gender that are in similarly sized clothes, you probably have had the problem that we have run into here from time to time. There would be a shirt with some very non-specific size like “medium” or there would be a 8/10 sized shirt that ran either much smaller or much bigger than the size would indicate, and then we’d forget who the shirt belonged to. This got especially confusing because shirts that we would associate with Noah would become Jack’s shirt after Noah grew out of it.
So, one day I went through all of the boys’ shirts and put a single dot on the tags of Noah’s shirts. On Jack’s, I put two dots. And, now when Noah outgrows a shirt, I just add another dot to the tag and it’s easy to remember that it’s now Jack’s shirt.
Of course, while my kids love tagless shirts, it has thrown me for a loop on how to keep up with them with dots. On some of them, I’ve just done it very small on the back of the shirt on the collar area (depending on the shirt).
So, for poor Jack, this means that hand-me-downs will always be plentiful and easily identified. Sorry Jack, but my checkbook appreciates it.
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My husband is one of three sons, very close in age. His parents had a similar system–1 dot for the oldest, 2 for the middle (that's my hubs now) and a line (Connect the dots!) for the youngest. Hand-me-downs never hurt anybody! In fact, they still swap clothes back and forth a lot, only now it's by size, rather than age and the "big" brother is now the smallest of the three…
Thanks for this idea! I have two boys and I can't tell you how many times after I carefully lay out clothes they come out wearing their brother's clothes. Not too bad for the younger, but pretty funny looking for the older!
This is a great idea! I have a son (5) and a daughter (3). I hand all his jeans and sweats and jammies down to her (because seriously – why do toddler girls' clothes have to be so trampy?).
The thing that is confusing is a) my husband can't remember when his clothes become hers and b) the boys clothes run bigger than the girls, so she will often be wearing 2T boys and 4T girls at the same time.
I just went thru all the clothes for my semi-annual clean out, and I am totally going to add dots to things.
It occured to me to add iron-on flowers or butterflies to the jeans, but after I am done, I pass stuff on to a family of boys. Plus because I can't seem to find the time or energy to iron on stuff.
And plus I don't have an iron…