I am weird
for lots of reasons, but one of them is my obsession for the way my laundry is
folded. I don’t like to have anyone help me with laundry because they don’t
fold things exactly the way I like
them. Yeah, I’m the mom that should be giving my kids responsibilities like
putting their own laundry away but instead I’m too worried they’ll do it wrong.
Time to lighten.up.
I have come
to the conclusion that raising children that grow up to be contributing members
of society really should be IS more important to me than how their
clothing looks folded up on the shelf. But since I’m still…me…I couldn’t just leave
it the way it was and give the kids a “good luck!” I had to tweak it a little with
the (possibly unrealistic) hope that it will make things easier and neater for
them.
I have loved
the free printables that Ashley and Jamin offer on their site from time to time
(I used one on my washi tape wall a while ago), and when I saw this post in January
about how to organize kids’ clothing I knew I’d hit the jackpot! Cute drawings,
cute colors, AND they’re from The Handmade Home?! Umm…yes, please!
So I picked
out the ones I needed and got to work. I used my trusty old washi tape to hang
them in the appropriate cubbies and within about 30 minutes I was done! Confession:
I used up the last of my heavier cardstock paper printing out signs for Judah’sBeatles party, so these are printed on regular ol’ printer paper with no
problems yet. Knock on wood ; )
Since I have
separate cubbies for the clothes I lay out for each munster the night before, I
used yet another Handmade Home printable, their lovely gift tags. I just opened
those up in PicMonkey and added my kiddos’ names in fun colors and called it a
day. Victory is mine!
The girls
are actually pretty excited to put their clothes away, and Judah is in charge
of the socks and undies baskets. I’ll be honest, I do still go in and tidy up
those cubbies every couple of days (they’re in plain sight as soon as you walk
in!) but all in all, I’d say we have a winner on our hands.
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