Saturday, August 14, 2010

Do You Really Need All Those Clothes?????

 

My friend, Christi, is thinking about fall.  Her children start school on August 9th!  I can’t believe they start so early, but then again, I try to school year round here, so that is weird to a lot of people too.  In her thinking and planning, she is downsizing the amount of clothing their children have.  I am about to add our sixth child.  We don’t need more laundry.  Seriously.  So I went to check out her list.   You can see (and print it) here.

 

I have modified her list because we don’t go to public / private school, we don’t have uniforms and have to deal with much much cooler weather.  Here’s my list:

  • underwear for a week (we have and I’ll keep a little more than that)
  • socks for a week (not sure what we have and need to purchase so that everyone has their own color / style)
  • 5 pairs of pants / jeans
  • 3 pairs of shorts (these will change to pants come fall)
  • 3-4 jumpers / dresses for the girls
  • 7-10 shirts
  • 2 sweaters
  • 2-3 dressy outfits for church
  • 2 casual outfits for eating out or going to the city
  • 1-2 winter coats (one for play, one for church)
  • 2 outfits for grubby work
  • 2-3 jackets (heavier sweaters)

Per child, this is going to add up fast!!

 

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