Fall is here in my part of the country and with it came the cooler weather. I thought this would be a good time to talk about storing seasonal clothes. For us, this week marks the time when I go through all the clothes and decide what stays, goes, or gets handed down.
Since I have two boys, the younger one always gets the hand-me-downs of the oldest. I store these clothes in large bins in the top of the closet. Normally these clothes get stored by size and season. For example, ‘Size 5 – Summer’, ‘Size 5 – Winter’. If there are not enough clothes to separate by season, I just put them all in one bin and label it ‘Size 5’. Of course, the key to using this system is the LABELS! Mabel’s Labels Custom Bin Labels are ideal for this since the text can be personalized to suit your unique requirements. Labeling the bins clearly means you won’t have to go rummaging through boxes every season to find what you are looking for
Besides labeling, the other key component to tackling the seasonal clothes is maintaining your system. Normally throughout the year when one of my children is wearing something that is obviously too small, it goes through the laundry and then I set it aside to go to the hand-me-down box. If it belonged to my daughter or youngest son and there is no one to hand it down to, it goes to the donate box.
Now that we are headed for colder weather, I am going through all of the summer clothes for the younger kids and donating all that will obviously be too small for next year. I save anything that is salvageable from my oldest son to hand down to his brother. I then hang the winter clothes and rotate all of the jeans and shorts.
This seasonal maintenance of rotating the clothes takes me about an hour each season and keeps things simple and organized.
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