In wondering why people label school clothes

[hoovercraft]

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?

Sport, swimming, playing, plays ... it goes on. And at £50 per skirt for my DD, it is jolly well going to be named as I am not losing that in a hurry.

Do people still bother then we are an enlightened lot we just use a biro.

OP - you're having a laugh - yes?

I refuse to help parents locate clothes they haven't named because it takes up far too much of my time. I'd be rich if I had a pound for everytime a parent has said "It isn't named, but it's blue/white/grey." Yes - just like the other 120 jumpers/polo shirts/trousers or skirts down the Year R/Year 1 corridor! It pisses me off so much!! Just name it!!!!!!

We are asked to even label pencils to stop arguments of what is whose. Plus with PE 5 days a week plus lunchtime practice there would be no uniform left if I didn't name it.

scaryteacher I like the idea of a lost property sale. Wonder if my DS's 99p Store PE t-shirts would even fetch £1 secondhand?

Really beginning to appreciate not having a uniform!

I lovingly crochet or plait a cord for the gloves/mittens in matching yarn and thread through DS's coat sleeves so the little shits darlings in his class can pull them off on an almost daily basis! Oddly enough I always get two back even if they are no longer joined together but without the cord they were simply daily disposables.

I got labels on line with DS name and my mobile number so no excuse for a finder not to return things I'm hoping. Time will tell.School new for us. Also some little 'rivet' type things which I didn't need to sew - really quick to attach labels and the whole lot was only a few quid. I labelled the lot during one breast feeding session of his baby brother.

I can just imagen schools banning mitts on a string incase child strangled itself, isn't this why they stopped selling them

my form time is often spent with boys [always boys] unable to find their blazer....year 9 mind! so please put a name on it!!!

l'll tell you why I labelled them all: because I was day dreaming about it 5 years ago when we found out we COULD have kids after all and found we were pregnant :)

Sounds sad doesnl;t it but as I am unable to write, sew or iron I didn't think this would happen and it made me a little sad. However, a friend then recomended these tags things called taggies and although i realise this is the first and last year where it will feel a novelty I loved every minute of it.