If you find yourself scrambling to know where your kids school clothes or uniform in the mornings, I’ve you the perfect solution for you! Keep reading to see how I organize my kids school clothes. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience.
Why Should You Systemize Your Kids School Clothes?
Because it’s a huge help! There’s nothing like the school morning hustle, half-sleepy kids not knowing where their things are as you try to get them out the door, especially if you are running late! The scenario may look like this:
- You’re down stairs trying to make breakfast and prep lunches
- You wake every one up (or so you thought)
- One child gets up and starts to get ready – two are still in bed
- Eventually everyone gets up and starts to get ready
- One child’s calling you from upstairs asking for a SPECIFIC shirt
- You’re trying to tell the kid that shirt is in so and so place or use another shirt
- Child decides no, he or she wants the shirt he or she wants
- Now you got to leave downstairs and come look for said shirt but it’s getting late and the kids still have to eat and do hair
- You’re scrambling
- You can make it easier.
What System(s) Do I Use to Organize My Kids School Clothes?
In efforts to make finding school uniforms and clothing easier for everyone, I came up with a simply yet semi-effective clothing system. Enter a rolling cart! Yes, Ma’am you heard me right, a rolling cart.
That rolling cart has helped the kids know exactly where to find their uniforms and saves me from the finding uniform scramble. On school uniforms laundry days (usually Fridays), I launder their uniforms and we hang them back up on that cart.
Portable Rack: I also have a portable rack that we use. The portable rack was actually used prior to the rolling cart. It was a too small for all the uniforms. Now it only hold’s one child’s clothing.
Banister: I’ve also used the top banister of the stairs to spread out uniforms. That banister is next to the laundry room (laundry is upstairs) so it makes it easy to hang stuff on the banister as they come out of the wash. Sometimes it’s just a means to an end – meaning, I hang some uniforms their so they would not get wrinkled, until we move them to the cart. Other times, I lay out my youngest’s uniforms there so he can easily find them cause without a doubt, he’ll be asking for something despite the rolling cart.
Bed Rail: My daughters have used their bed rails to lay out uniforms for a couple of days in the week. The only issue is that the bed rail could only hold so much. It doesn’t need to be junky.
Why Not Use Their Closets?
Well their closets can’t hold the uniforms along with their regular clothing. My girls especially share a closet and it’s at max. At first, the uniforms were squished in there as best we could. But that’s what it was – everything was too squished. And as the school year went along and we figured out what uniforms worked and what we could purchase that looked better or add to what they had so we could avoid having to launder over and over that one or two shirts, pants, dress, or skirt, etc, the extra space was needed. I decided to keep everyone’s Uniforms in one central spot. It works!
A Dedicated Sock Basket
When my kids were around 2, 4, 6, I would see or read about moms creating Sock Baskets. Why was that even necessary? Doesn’t everyone just put back socks where they belong? Why were socks missing? I couldn’t understand the need for it until NOW. Our kids are now 8, 10, and 12 and now I understand why some moms had sock baskets. When they were much younger, keeping socks where they needed to be was easier it seems. Worn socks were placed in laundry baskets. On laundry days, every pair was found and put back in correct drawers or wherever we kept the socks. Now the sock struggle has become very real. Socks tend to go missing oven. I wonder if kids get to a point where they just put (throw) things anywhere and then forget where they put them.
Recently, I saw a pair of socks on top of the cubes in the entryway. I asked my daughter if they were clean. She then replied that she has gotten them out to wear the previous day and have been looking for them and didn’t remember where they were.
How Our Sock Basket Have Worked
I started with this little basket last Fall mainly to keep their school socks in one spot. I bought a pack of 15 white socks in one large pack. That was last minute because we had recently moved to the area and had to figure out new schools for the kids. We really didn’t have time to figure out socks and uniforms. Everything was starting from scratch as they were also homeschooled that previous year. I call them school socks because they were dedicated for school plus my kids had loads of colorful socks that every kid in the neighborhood could have a pair:)
Each kid added the first letter of their name on a lower part of the socks. They all have cubby baskets and we kept each child’s socks in their individual baskets. After the first couple of school and laundry days, everything seemed to be working out just right. I’d launder the socks then have the kids find their matches and take them down to their cubbies. And then I had this little basket that we used to keep dirt masks in (circa 2020) and I thought, hmm it’s a cute little basket and I can use it for something.
The sock basket was created – all white school socks went in that basket. And I placed the basket next to their shoes. That way, socks and shoes are together an easy find on school mornings. Well, overtime, not all socks were able to find their matching initials. Some kids started wearing whatever they could find🤔. That was ok with me because all the socks were the same anyways and they didn’t get stretched by a bigger foot.
So I decided to bring another small basket upstairs in the hallway, next to the laundry room. This second basket was meant for loose or missing socks. It’s ultimately become the real soc basket. Any single sock that don’t seem to have a match go in there along with others that do, white school socks, regular coloring or designed socks, soccer socks, you name it. I also throw some of their Trampoline Park socks in there too. Those always seemed to go missing. That Sock System makes the socks real easy to put away on laundry days and to find when needed.
Ways to Organize Kids School Clothes
You can use any form of clothing organization that will make it easier for the kids and in return for you:
- Closet Space System: If your child’s closet is large enough, you can dedicated a little spot in their for their uniforms or weekly picked out school clothes. Choose 6-7 pairs of clothing on the weekends and put them in a designated spot.
- Portable Rack System: Hang them on a portable clothing rack
- Rolling Cart System: Hang them on a rolling clothing cart
- Bed-Rail System – (this could be in their closets, at the edge of their beds, on a
- Designated Table Top – Lay them out or fold on the table
- Basket or Bin: Fold clothes neatly in basket or bin
Note: Wrinkle Clothing – If you’re concerned that clothes will get wrinkled folded on a table or in a basket, then don’t use a basket and just lay them out flat on a table. Personally, when my kids were in schools that didn’t require uniforms, having the clothes folded neatly was sufficient. We folded them on a cubie toy in their closet and that worked – They didn’t turn out wrinkle at all.
Choosing the Best System
Whatever system you decide, make sure the kids can find their clothes easily and quickly or there’ll be no point in going through the organizing hassle. The Key is to find one or two systems that will work for your household you can avoid that clothing or socks scramble on busy mornings.
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