Full drawers

First let me start out by saying THANK-YOU to Miss Kim. She brought over a very large (I’m not exaggerating) bag of hand me down clothes for my son. As I was going through the never ending bag of clothes this thought of ‘oh my poor child looks like we don’t buy him anything’ started going through my head. Because the bag kept going and going the thought got stronger and stronger.

I washed the clothes that I decided to keep and sorted them out in the sizes since she had everything from 12-18 months to 3T. I thought ‘Great! Now I know that I’m not too terrible because this goes all the way up to 3T.’

I put the stuff that is too large into his closet and what fits him into his drawers. Only there was one tiny little problem. Everything that would fit him does not fit into his drawers! So let me tell you how I have shopped for him; 8 of everything. This gives him a week of clothes; shirts, shorts or pants (only 8 of each now because of the change in season), PJ, and I think like 12 socks (that’s because of his dad’s weird sock changing fetish but that’s a story for another time) with one extra just in case I get to the laundry late or we have an accident. Now I look at his over flowing drawer and go ‘what a terrible mama! His daycare probably noticed that he wore the same outfit constantly and thought poor child they don’t buy him anything.

I’ve decided that because this HAS to be hand me down’s from 2 boys that I am not so terrible. If she had my same rule of 8, that would be 16 of everything from both of her boys. I’m not so naive that I think this is true but it has made me feel better. And now my little man will no longer look like we don’t buy him anything. His drawers are overflowing. And I promise that when his stuff will last longer than 3 months I will purchase more than 8. But funny enough I think that I have close to 8 of everything up to 3T. Thanks again Kim!