A crucial decision I need urgent help with......

[cantpooinpeace]

Iron on or stitch in school name labels - advice from MN Jury please :)

i use a laundry maker.i dont own an iron and cant be bothered with sew on ones.by the time ive done it all,they'll all have grown out of uniform!

Sew on. I think the iron on ones can be a bit scratchy if they start to peel at the edges. Also if you just sew the two ends, the label forms a handy loop for hanging the garment up.

I don't understand the thinking behind writing the name somewhere discreet. If someone nicks the clothes, and is willing to go to the effort of cutting out a label, then you've had it really. You can't go around demanding to look inside random kids jumpers for the "hidden" name.

It does work Spawn.

If you write it on a label they cut it out. If you write it in the arm it is always there. They know you can get it back.

You dont have to say 'you've nicked my jumper'. You only have to say 'I think there has been a mix up can we check? I always write the kids' names in the sleeve'

You get your jumper back, toerag can pretend it was all a big mistake, they dont nick your kids' jumpers again.

Genius Spawn :)

Spawn! You have probably saved me hours .

Thank you, thank you, thank you

I use sew in labels. I did have iron on ones for when DD went on a school trip and everything had to be named, but I think they look tatty after a while.

I have bought sew on ones for the clothes and stick on ones for bags and shoes. I quite like sewing and the way they look, but it's still going to be a long weekend next weekend!
I'm the eldest of four. Mum bought personalised sew on ones for me and second sister. Youngest two had the old labels cut in half and initial in fabric pen. But not until secondary school, because we didn't have uniform at primary.When did ALL primary schools get uniform? DS has to wear a tie. A TIE! At 4 and a half. I think it's ridiculous. (and no I didn't know about the tie when I applied to the school and no there isn't another school nearby)

There is a way to make sure that your uniform is never nicked, hand knit it! my mum did this for me, how ever much I longed for it, no-one ever pinched my uniform she never had to bother with name tapes.

Glutton for punishment me, I sew in DNeice's labels, surname tag, but also sew in ribbon in yellow so they know it's her's, DNephew wanted pink ribbon, but changed it to red. If I set up my sewing machine I can get them done in an hour. Used to sew unit name tapes in the Brownies/Guides kit so learnt a speedy sewing machine technique.

But MrsDeVere if you don't know which parents have "mixed-up" your jumper you have to have that conversation 30 times!

Also, my surly uncommunicative husband does picking up and dropping off. There is no way he'd go up to anyone in the playground and ask to look in jumpers. I can't even get him to RSVP party invites.

All good parents know that you send your kids to school in the tattiest clothes, hanging off them in tatters, it's saves you a fortune on name stickers as no one would nick them.

I foght eviryone knowed vat.

My ds goes to a school in a v posh area. I was advised to sew on labels because of the number of jumpers that get nicked. I actually met a mum in my frst term, while searching through lost property for a lost cardi, that I should take a decent one and just cut out the existing label!

Now I sew their names in - usually with a big ZigZag stitch on the machine. If its too much hassle to take it off, thieving parents will generally choose something else!.

The absolute only way to ensure you get your jumper back is to sew a small running stitch on the collar at the back in a different colour to the sweater - stands out a mile in assembly if you know what your looking for .

Well nothing is foolproof endo

In the 15 years I have had kids in primary school I have found it is usually the same suspects who 'forget' to send a jumper back. Kids also take them off a lot which is how they get 'lost' in the first place.

You have a squint down the peg rack at home time or on the floor and you will usually find what you are looking for.

I was once walking to school on a monday and saw a jumper in a tree. I thought I'd better get it down because some 'poor mum' would be missing it.

Got it down - DS1's name in it.

On the rare occasions I go to pick up from school I usually can get the jumpers, yes.

Trouble with my husband, and he is a lovely man, is that I'm lucky if he gets home with the correct children.

I discovered this evening that the embroidered patch on the school sweatshirts is white on the back. Now have named that with Sharpie as well as sewing in label, just in case......

Permanent marker on labels.

Once they get to secondary though you can stop bothering. Teenagers do not look in lost property, might say thay do but they LIE no other way to explain our HUGE lost property area with brand new uniform, full pencil cases, shoes (how?!), trainers, whole PE kits, handbags all easily identifiable names, design, work inside etc. Suggest it and they will 'do it later, or can't be bothered.

Strange there are no ipods or phones though....

Yes my OH will ring me at 12 to ask me what 3 year old should be wearing. He is never bought all the right kids home with all the right equipment. I feel your pain

just wanted to randomly say...spit roast platter...dont know why

wrong thrad OMG sorry

YAABU as you have just reminded me I have got to do this with DS2's uniform and I was trying to ignore the fact my baby is going to be away from me for 3 hours a day in a few weeks. [SULK]

fabric pen here, those iron on labels are rubbish...and i can't sew

I have done sewn on because the iron on ones come off and I will (hopefully) be able to sell the uniform on when DS has grown out of it. Always always label shoes too.

Sometimes there are benefits to having had your DC in formal childcare for years before starting school :o

*unexpected benefits