Do you buy duplicates of e.g. shoes for home vs school?

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DD 9 has to have indoor trainers for PE at school. She also does a sports club one evening. It’s at school, but the school building is closed so can’t access the lockers and she comes home to eat and then goes back for the club. On those days, she brings her sports kit home and takes it back in the following day.

She wants to try out some other clubs this year, so she may well have clubs on three consecutive days. Would you make her bring the sports kit home each time or save her the hassle and buy a second pair of indoor trainers? (She already has her everyday-school trainers, sandals, running shoes, hiking boots and wellies.)

No

Bringing the trainers home and back to school is hardly a hardship.

Buy a second set of kit if the money isn’t an issue!

Nah, waste of money. Trainers are light enough to keep in a backpack.

No, indoor trainers will be barely worn before outgrown as it is.

We had cheap ones (£5) from asda and 3 sets, one for each pea bag and a spare set at home, mine always had the same size feet despite not being twins!

Yes. We need them anyway - school trainers are used daily in our school (2 full afternoons PE and every playtime as they have a big field), so we need a school pair and a home pair for weekend sport and holidays. Both pairs are usually worn out by the rime they don’t fit anymore.

Yes if they are cheap supermarket trainers.

No if they are expensive designer trainers or specialist sports shoes.

I would have it the other way round and have one pair of trainers she takes to school as she need them.

Doesn't she bring her kit home to be washed after PE or does it live at schools?

what constitutes her 'sports kit'? can just take trainers as she need them not the whole sports kit (imaging this is different to shorts and t shirt for PE kit?)

Anyway - it just depends on how expensive and how much of a hassle it is and how organised she is.

We have separate pairs, the school trainers are just cheap supermarket trainers and we're not short of a bob or two. Mind you, DD1 has multiple football boots for different surfaces and multiple swimsuits because she swims so much so maybe I'm not the right person to ask.

Yes, absolutely have multiple pairs. Dd2 also has wellies to leave at nursery and both dd's have shoes/wellies and clothes at my parents house as they go there a lot. Sod needing to remember everything every day, and dd would likely loose a shoe between breakfast club, after school club and sport

Pre-Covid my DD used to have one set of everything and I’d be traipsing it all back and forwards to nursery every day in case we needed it. When Covid hit they were no longer allowed to take possessions in and out every day (although I’m not sure how my DD’s bag was more germ ridden than her) and had to leave everything there. So I bought a cheap second set of wellies, waterproofs etc to leave there. It’s revolutionised getting out of the house in the morning

Yes buy two, they need at least 2 pairs anyway in the holidays. (Or are my children just more than usually attracted to mud, puddles etc?!?) I just buy cheapish pairs from Decathlon, they are generally worn out about the time they are outgrown.

Not designer trainers, but they do have to be proper indoor non-marking ones which aren’t worn outdoors.

PE kit otherwise would live at school, home at half terms.

A separate bag with shorts/trousers, T-shirt and indoor trainers.

She is not very organised….and it would probably stress her. On the other hand she does need a bit of practice and it seems daft to buy two pairs of indoor only trainers. But she often has a heavy bag, plus the sports bag to carry 3 times a week, I’m wondering if I’m being mean and stingy!

On the days they’re likely to have sport outside, she wears her running shoes into school and on the other days she wears her normal trainers or sandals.

I would for the ease of it tbh but My 5yo has to have school wellies and trainers that do not come home so I’ve got used to double running.