Winter is around the corner and we all are making quick transitions to our living spaces to ensure a cozy winter. However, there are still some tasks that we consider invisible or effortless, seasonal closet transition. It might be easy if we talk about adult clothes as we only have to decide if it is worth wearing for the next year or not. However, for the children’s closets, this task could be overwhelming especially when you have more than one closet to set. In this blog post, we are simplifying this seasonal swap with a much-needed guide having some functional tips. Let’s get started.
How to Deal with the Children’s Clothes during Seasonal Closet Setting?
It is almost time to create space in your little one’s closet for the baby winter clothes. It is not as easy as it sounds. However, here is a step-wise guide for you to ease this process for you.
- Implement a Sorting System
You can ease your season-end chores burden by following a cloth sorting system around the year. Many parents overstuff their children’s closets with worn-out or fade-out clothes and just continue to ignore them for the entire season. This behavior is only going to increase your workload in the end. Discard such clothes immediately which your kids are not going to wear again. Specify an outgrown clothes section in the wardrobe of each child but only put those clothes there which are still in good condition.
- Devise a Plan for Seasonal Cleaning
Cleaning the children’s closet requires a strategic approach as the task is not limited to just sorting one closet and moving to the other. However, you also need to figure out if the existing pieces from the elder sibling are going to work for the younger in the next year or not. So, start the cleaning process with your eldest and proceed towards the youngest in the chronological order to ease the decision-making process. Now get some storage cartons and initiate your cleaning process.
- Start the Sorting Process
Go to the eldest child’s room, and empty the entire closet. Keep an empty bucket nearby to place the small accessories that can easily get lost in the piles of clothes. Divide all clothes into “Keep, Throw, and Hand-me-down” piles. Only clean clothes that are going to fit perfectly in the next season are going to the keep pile. While damaged clothes will go to the throw pile. For the outgrown clothes, if you think it is going to fit any of your younger children, put them in his/her closet while all others are going to the hands-me-down pile.
- Categorize and Store the Out-of-Season Clothes
Once you have sorted all the clothes in the required piles, it is time to store the clothes that you are going to keep. Get enough packing material to protect clothes from the elements. Categorize all the clothes according to the clothing type and label them accordingly, so you know what to expect in each box rather than creating a mess next year. Moreover, if you are storing all the clothes in a single place, make sure to label the boxes with each child’s details to ease the next transition.
- Setting the Closet
Once everything is safely packed and saved, the closets are now free to be filled with this season’s clothes. If you have followed the above tips in the previous season, you would only need to unpack and put the clothes in a suitable section. Otherwise, unpack one child’s stuff at a time, follow the same procedure as you did for the packing but rather than storing the clothes, set them in the closet. The task is going to be demanding for once, but it is going to save space and money and ease your workload in the coming years.
- Handle the Hand-me-Down Pile Responsibly
Do not forget about the Hands-me-down pile. You may find it easy to trash every leftover but those clothes are going to be stressful for our environment. If the clothes are good to use or even your child did not wear them for once, donation or selling are the better options for optimal handling. You can pass them to your friend’s mommies who are willing to accept hand-me-downs. Think responsibly and options are just a few steps away.
Conclusion
Seasonal kid’s closet transitions are overwhelming for parents who are not well-prepared to efficiently manage the workload. Get your guidance from the above guide and make the process easier. Never let cute baby girl clothes fool you. If something is not going to fit, you have to let it go. Sort wisely to minimize clutter and maximize saving.
