How do you organize Kid’s clothes?
I have small children 5 and under, and they just have no concept of keeping their clothes neatly organized. I kind of gave up on a system, as I find their drawers popped open with dirty and clean clothes alike, just tossed in. So my question is how do you handle your kid’s behavior in this and most importantly, how do you organize your children’s clothes? I am looking for a system, as much for me as them, as I HATE laundry and putting clothes away because of this. It is just getting out of hand, and it takes forever to get them dressed and I dread it. Please tell me your system, what you fold and what you hang, etc. Thanks!!!
OH gosh, I feel you girlfriend! LOL. I hate laundry too. Everything about it. It could have something to do with the fact I have 6 in my family to do laundry for. Myself, my husband, my 5 year old daughter, my 4 year old son, AND my identical twin girls, ages 2. And the twins, let me tell you. They are identical, so ofcourse they have all the same outfits, and that was a pain to keep together. Especially when they would go in the closet and drawers and for “fun” toss everything out onto the floor. It finally got so bad for me, I just folded and hung everything as I did it, and everything was mixed up. I couldn’t find any matching outfits for atleast a few minutes, and I hated it. I would wash clothes frequently, but then when they came out of the dryer I would pile them on the folding table in the laundry room, and soon it was OVERWHELMING! We all had so many clothes, that we always had clean ones, so I would just keep piling those out of the dryer until I would finally have to do it, sit on my living room floor watching a movie, and was up until 2 am sometimes with all of it, just exhausted. It also made me have to iron more, it was awful. Then I realized, “no wonder I hate this! I make it so freaking hard for myself!!!” At that point, I told myself, that’s it. I am getting organized. So this is what I do, and it really really works:
Delegate a day for each person in your family for laundry. ( I also do this with the chores, e.i. My 5 year old has Monday for laundry as well as tidying up her room)
This will take your chaos way down, way down. You will have that day only to sort through, wash, fold and put away just that child’s clothing. And as I said, also tidying their room.
The next day, it’s someone else. And the answers above me are awesome as well. And they are right, young children shouldn’t have a concept of organizing clothes, but you involving them was a great idea! I do the same. Make it fun, a game, something they can be proud of for being so responsible and “grown up”. This will also help in them getting themselves dressed and picking out clothes, which will help you a lot as well.
Organization always starts with a plan, as everything else in life. Make a chart for yourself, decide what day for whom, and just chart out your daily routine for household chores and laundry. This will cut time, make things so much easier and also make you more efficient. Like with the laundry, when you are only concentrating on one person’s load, you get the colors separated better, and you tend to work with things like stains and such more efficiently, because it’s just one load and not an overwhelming amount of all kinds of shapes and sizes and colors of everyone’s clothes. Keep up with this pattern too, and there is less to do. It just becomes a part of your daily routine, and won’t get piled up and out of hand and it becomes barable and ok. You wouldn’t leave dishes in the sink for a week or let the toilet go without cleaning for that long would you? Just think of laundry the same way. I know it’s hard, I hate it too. And I used to put it off and have a million things to wash and put away, how frustrating! Not to mention kid’s clothes are so tiny and there are tons. LOL. But as soon as I got organized with the laundry, their closets and dressers were better organized too, and it was great. I gave it the same attention as I did with the rest of my home, and I started taking pride in it just as I always did with keeping my house tidy and clean. Oh and (shhh, don’t tell a soul) but I started liking doing the laundry and putting the clothes away, too! 
Lastly, you asked “how” to do the actually system of putting away and such. Well, how you organize the clothes, as in what fashion, really depends on your style, what works for you, how much drawer or closet space you have, etc. There is really no standard. So I can’t really help you on that. But once you get it down, as long as you are getting them dressed quickly and not having to surf for clothes, then you are definitely pretty organized! LOL. That’s how I judge it anyway 
You’ll be fine!!!
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