It drives me crazy that all the pants still fit their skinny little waists, but they always end up too short. Even the ones that still fit Aidan probably won't make it through the winter. I think I'm going to open a store called "Beanpole" that will sell pants that are adjustable in the width and length...yes, those will be very stylish pants. My mom has suggested we take the hippie route and just add fabric onto the bottoms of the pant legs...again, very stylish. *Sigh*
Am I the only one who fantasizes every year about letting them have approximately three pairs of pants and three shirts and just letting them rotate through them until they wear out? It just feels like then we'd really be getting our money's worth.
I don't think my kids would be bothered by wearing the same thing day after day - although Aidan is a bit of a budding clothes horse - but the obstacle to this plan is really the simple fact that I don't, or more accurately, won't do laundry every two days.
Nope, apparently I'd prefer that they always own enough clothing to create equally towering piles of both dirty and clean laundry. Sometimes I think they don't even really need dressers since they are nearly always having to dig through the basket of clean laundry to find some component of their outfit. I mean really, if they didn't even have dressers, I couldn't feel bad about not getting around to folding the laundry, right?
Hmmm...three outfits, no dresser. That could be the name of my new simple living movement. It will focus on simplifying your life purely to decrease household chores and the guilt associated with not keeping up with those chores.
It's gonna be huge.
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We have the same issue with my daughter, but the opposite with my son: the pants grow tight in the waist before they're too short. This means he often wears his pants cuffed up, and removing them in the evening means a half pound of sand and playground rocks fall out onto the floor.
My dad practiced clothes frugality, had two pairs of pants and a handful of shirts. On Fridays -- laundry day -- he would sit in his basement office, naked, while his meager wardrobe went through the wash cycle.
I seem to remember Thoreau advocated clothing frugality -- but as much as I admire it, I don't think it's practicable for kids.
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