Ideas About Clothes Management For Kids

Clothes Management:

1. Regular Sorting: Regularly go through your child's clothes to declutter and remove items that no longer fit or are no longer in style.

2. Seasonal Rotation: Rotate clothes seasonally to keep the appropriate items easily accessible and store off-season clothing in bins or vacuum-sealed bags.

3. Labeling: Label shelves or drawers with categories like "Tops," "Bottoms," and "Pajamas" to help kids easily find and put away their clothes.

4. Storage Solutions: Utilize storage bins, baskets, or hanging organizers to keep small items like socks, underwear, and accessories tidy and accessible.

5. Laundry Routine: Establish a regular laundry routine to ensure that your child always has clean clothes available. Teach older kids how to do their laundry to encourage independence.

6. Stain Treatment: Treat stains promptly to prevent them from setting in and ruining clothing. Keep stain removers or laundry pens handy for quick touch-ups.

7. Repair and Maintenance: Repair minor clothing damages like loose buttons, small rips, or loose hems promptly to extend the life of the garment.

8. Teach Responsibility: Encourage kids to take responsibility for their clothes by helping with folding, hanging, and putting away laundry from an early age.

9. Donate or Sell Unused Clothing: Donate gently used clothing that no longer fits or is no longer needed to charity or sell them online or at consignment stores to make room for new items.

10. Invest in Quality Basics: Invest in a few high-quality, versatile basics that can mix and match with other items in your child's wardrobe to create multiple outfits.

By following these ideas for creating an essential wardrobe for kids and managing their clothes efficiently, you can streamline the process of getting dressed and maintaining an organized closet for your child.

The older your kids get, the more input they will want about their clothes. It can be fun to shop with them, or let them fill a basket online for you to look at, even if you don't buy everything they want (just give them the heads up about that beforehand).

I love clothes shopping for my foster kids! It's fun to have a monthly budget and when they are little, to choose their clothes. I usually do it online. You have to put your own money out, and it takes me 2 months to get the money back. It is important to make sure you have curated a basic wardrobe because at any time the phone could ring and they could be moved back home or otherwise. I also like to shop sales in advance. It's easier if you know the kids will be with you longer, or if it is your own children. There are great end of season sales, and I buy a size up and put it away in the closet for them to grow into. For summer camps, I look for great deals at clearance places. The clothes either get very dirty or they don't come home, having disappeared at camp, so we have a special "camp wardrobe". Our city has a clearance store that has Walmart shirts for a couple of bucks each. I grab a pile of them for camp.

Keeping a bag in the closet for items that the kids have grown out of is an easy way to stay on top of their wardrobe. Some of the clothes I keep for future foster kids, if they are especially nice clothes, the rest we donate. The kids closet needs to be managed very often. I usually do it at nighttime when they are in the room talking to me, or playing. I like to do jobs like that while being available to them, and save other household jobs for when they are school and the house is quiet.

Have fun with the job, and if you hate the job, delegate it to someone else. When I was a Nanny, the grandmas managed the job of all of the children's wardrobe.