Do you name your child's shoes for school?

[tortoiseshell]

And if so, how??? And if not, don't they get lost at PE time?

[NomDePlume]

PMSL, I thought you meant do you give the shoes names !

[Hulababy]

We have some tage labels, with plastic covers that go over them - for shoes. Got them in my proze when i won on MN - from easy2name. They ahve a link on the home page I think.

[tortoiseshell]

lol!!!!!!!!!!

[Lonelymum]

No I don't and they have never been lost yet. I name plimsolls though - just with a ball point pen inside at the side.

[tortoiseshell]

Hmm, he is starting in an hour and a half, so easy2name might not deliver in that time! Thanks for the suggestion though - any other thoughts?

[cupcakes]

Yes because there are so many identical start rites and clarks that they will come home in the wrong (and ill fitting) shoes.
Cash's do stick in name labels. I'll try to find a link.

[noughtsandcrosses]

NomDePlume!!

I iron on a name tag to the underside of the tounge, there is a fabric label there.

[tortoiseshell]

That might work noughts and crosses - I've got some iron on labels.

[foxinsocks]

yes - I write in plimsolls with a laundry pen and I use the same stickers as hulababy for school shoes (you can get some in Clarks shops - they send them off, or in Startrite places as well as any of the online ones)

[LIZS]

This time (now joining a school where everything has to be named) we got some stickies shaped to go inside the heels of the shoes on the sole. Previously just done them with indelible pen either on the tongue label or side or in gold marker if the interior is black or blue.

[Lonelymum]

He won't do PE first day tortoiseshell - maybe not for a few weeks. You have time to sort yurself!

[cupcakes]

not much to do than write them in with a permanent marker then!

[tortoiseshell]

lonelymum I'm sure you're right, but just don't want him to have any un-necessary stress!

[clary]

I stick a lable in the bottom and then use a shoe label cover over the top (both from Easy to name)
Alternatively, a lot of shoes (Clarks one) have a space to write the name in.
ALWAYS name shoes as they all wear the same pair! We came home from a friends' once in the wrogn pair, wrong size too....

[cupcakes]

Cash's
list of suppliers, not mail order.

[Lonelymum]

Forgive me, but it sounds like you are the one stressing! My children don't bat an eyelid when they come home for the enth time with the wrong jumper or no jumper at all, and it doesn't even stress them to see their mother jumping up and down enraged by their repeated carelessness!

[clary]

doh took so long to post as per usual everyone else has said what I said!!

[Nightynight]

Yes, theyre called Lefty and Righty.

[Hulababy]

Easy2name

And to get the MN discount, quote: mums-e2n

[LIZS]

btw Cash's aim to despatch within a week if you order online. I ordered one Thursday and had 3 deliveries between Wednesday and Friday the following week.

[Twiglett]

keep seeing this and thinking 'yes the left one's called Bob and the right one's Fred'

can't help it

I'm sorry

[tatt]

still have unused labels Much simpler to get out a marker pen and label them with that. I have such problems with the kids shoes I'd cry if they went missing!

[LIZS]

I know twig - I tried to suggest to ds that we named his shoes, but he didn't get it !

[Bozza]

DS did once get a pair of 8H brown Startrite Boots mixed up at a party. I just write in them with a marker pen. Problem is that with his nursery wellies it came right through so you had the reverse of his name on the outside.

[tortoiseshell]

Thanks all, we have decided on Julius and Antonio...no really have ironed some labels onto underside of tongue, will look at the easy2name shoe labels too. It just hadn't occurred to me about shoes!!! Lonelymum, of course it's me stressing!