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AIBU?

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In wondering why people label school clothes

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hoovercraft · 04/09/2011 21:11

Firstly, apart from pe day (mine only has one day a week), they dont take their clothes off usually, do they? I understand jumpers and coats but why the rest?

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DownyEmerald · 04/09/2011 22:36

I use iron on labels on socks - put it on the sole of the foot on the outside. Usually works if I have the iron hot enough.

If I don't I spend every other bloomin Sunday trying to to re-iron them on. Labels is the only time I use the iron. It makes me feel like a proper mum!

SarahStratton · 04/09/2011 22:38

I sew the labels along the underside of the feet. And I sew all the way round in tiny stitches because I am mad .

pigletmania · 04/09/2011 22:39

These are great, no sewing or ironing

www.nametag-it.co.uk/types.php?cid=1

queenmaeve · 04/09/2011 22:40

Its actually disgraceful the amount of clothing, coats, shoes, trainers that is gathered up at the end of the year from lost property and from the cloakrooms. Mostly it is dumped. This year I filled 3 bin bags and brought them to charity shop.

Oakmaiden · 04/09/2011 22:44

I sew nametapes on socks. :)

I pop a tumbler inside the leg of the sock, so that it is stretched out around, and then just sew the tape on. You have to be careful when stitching that you don't go right through the sock so the thread doesn't show on the other side - sortof like a hem stitch. Then when you take the tumbler out the nametape crinkles into place.

I am a bit sad, really.....

PerAr6ua · 04/09/2011 22:45

Sarah - I'm feeling very smug about the huge pile of neatly sewn-labelled clothes on the sofa opposite. Not so smug anticipating the quantities of stains and scuffs I'll be looking at this time next week...

PerAr6ua · 04/09/2011 22:45

But I don't label socks. That would be wrong.

omnishambles · 04/09/2011 22:46

I started doing it the first year but ds always comes home with something even if it isnt his and the uniform is all the same so I dont mind - the big ticket items are labelled though - blazer etc. He has only ever lost a pair of PE shorts in 3 years - as someone else pointed out - he's not going to come home without his trousers is he? Even I would notice that, shite parent that I am.

Oakmaiden · 04/09/2011 22:47

It makes it easier for the children to sort out the sock pile for me if they are named. Otherwise they just look at the pile of grey socks and go - um... I don't know which are mine, mummy!

Plus it makes me feel virtuous.

Oakmaiden · 04/09/2011 22:48

omni my son has lost trousers at school. And shoes. Countless jumpers and coats. Has never yet managed to lose his underwear though....

spiderpig8 · 04/09/2011 22:48

'Because the teachers get pissed off if you don't '

I never get why schools insist 100s of children where identical outfits and then whine when they get mixed up!

omnishambles · 04/09/2011 22:50

Oakmaiden - what the jeff did he come home in then? or was it a judo club day or some such? Mine has to walk home over half an hour so cant really do it in sports kit, or judo trousers, or his pants.

Maybe some of them are just very disorganised and if you have one of them then yes, label for your very life.

Oakmaiden · 04/09/2011 22:54

He came home in his PE kit. But he is very disorganised. Really need to be able to staple things to him, to make sure they don't drop off....

MCos · 04/09/2011 22:55

Playdates with several classmates are the reason I label most of the uniform. But not tights or socks..

When DD1's friends visit our house on an after school playdate, at some stage they decide to kickoff uniform, and dress up either in DD1s clothes or in clothes from dress up chest.

PerAr6ua · 04/09/2011 22:57

In Reception, I sewed DS's gloves together with elastic and put a label on. His teacher chased me across the playground to thank me

bubby64 · 04/09/2011 23:00

Sorry, but YABU. I help out at DC's school during days the little ones do PE, they take off their clothes and are supposed to put them on their table, but they get so excited they walk around and drop them where they stand, and they all get mixed up. When they come in from PE, they often do not remember not only where they were supposed to have left their clothes, but often what they were actually wearing that day! Labels are invaluable, and save so much time when sorting them out, not to mention stopping the worry mums have when their little darling comes home in a completly different pair of trousers/skirt than they went into school with....get labeling, please, all it takes is a indelible pen and a little time, you dont need to do the sewing if you don't wish too.

electra · 04/09/2011 23:01

If I don't label stuff I don't see it again! This has been the case in nursery and school.

electra · 04/09/2011 23:02

LOL @spiderpig

Againagainagain · 04/09/2011 23:06

I don't know why I bother to label stuff as it still goes missing never to be seen again

foreverondiet · 04/09/2011 23:07

Because PE is once a week and it would be expensive to lose an item of clothing each week!

DD has brought home the wrong shoes (same design wrong size, she complained they were too big!) and the other parents hadn't labelled them.

DS1 has come home from PE wearing other people's uniform.

festi · 04/09/2011 23:11

because if you dont I ll have your cardigans on the last day of term when its layed out for first dibs on it

AryaStark · 04/09/2011 23:13

PerAr6ua Sun 04-Sep-11 22:57:34

In Reception, I sewed DS's gloves together with elastic

I bet he was absolutely ace at catching a ball in the playground. Ker-ping!

Know what you mean though. DD (11) has become so wibbly in recent months that I have threatened to send her to secondary in winter wearing mittens with elastic through the sleeves of her coat. That's if she bothers to wear a coat

happybubblebrain · 04/09/2011 23:15

I've sewed labels in everything because I don't want things lost. It only took a couple of hours to do heaps of labels and I quite enjoyed it. So why not do it? I have a lifetime supply of labels that cost very little, compared to the price of replacing everything all the time. Seems obvious to me.

happybubblebrain · 04/09/2011 23:17

Oh no, I'm worrying about how many mittens I'm going to get through this winter now. A couple of years ago I was averaging a pair a week.

PureBloodMuggle · 04/09/2011 23:20

I label the stuff because without their names on then the days DH is sorting out their uniform they'd end up in each others. Doesn't seem to matter that they are notably different sizes.

Though the name tags do seem to come in handy at school to. Swimming and the such like

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