to make my dc wear stained clothes

[superbagpuss]

DT have 3 weeks left of term

they wear white polo shirts to school and are in reception, I have been replacing and chucking very worn ones out during the year so they are always clean and tidy but they are down to three each which means a bit of effort washing and ironing in week, eg last night I washed on through by hand for today

one has cone home with black marker pen on it, until the end of term aibu to make him still wear it and not open my stash of lovely new shirts for September?

I was delighted when we swapped light blue sweatshirts for navy. They were totally impractical, DD1's was covered in gravy and green paint by oct 1/2 term.

As everyone says, white board marker and paint don't count as stains. Both DDs had black lines on their summer dresses.

DD1 is now at senior school and no way do I replace £18 jumpers for a GCSE art student with a love of acrylic paint.

I only buy 3 at the start of term! How many do you start with? I only iron them for first day of term and school photos.

we started with 9 between 2, had one spare. I have six of those left now plus 3 new ones that have only been used for school photo

My ds' polo shirts are all a completely different colour than they started out and looking faded and tatty.

I found myself looking around at the other children the other day, working out whether I should replace them now or wait until September. I decided that the other parents must all either have far superior washing skills to me or are still precious and sending their dc in new uniform in July. However, we are reception so I'm sure this will change..

There is a huge difference between children that smell of unwashed hair, clothes that smell because they have days of food on them and aren't washed regularly and kids who smell fresh but have stains in them that don't smell.

Working in a school you totally get the difference.

Yanbu op.

YANBU.

There's an obvious difference between stains and dirt.

My kids are the anti-Boden poster boys at this time of year!

My DD is wearing alternately a dress which is too big and marked, and one which barely comes to mid thigh, with school shoes which look about to fall apart. It's only a couple more weeks and half the class look as bad! Good tip on buying uniform now.

wow a unanimous aibu

is that a first?

Do it. You should see the state of my childs shoes!

I bet they haven't been glued together as often as my 6th form ones. The cobbler stopped charging me.

I loath court shoes, having found one pair that actually fitted they were jolly well getting to study leave.

Stains have to be pretty noticeable for me to chuck out a polo shirt.

DS1 threw a blinder last September. I started him on a new batch of polo shirts in June, after half term, as he'd outgrown his previous lot. 2 different brands in the new size. Got to September and only 2 of the new-ish polo shirts still fitted him, as he'd grown so much over the summer. Nowhere has blue polo shirts left in September.

Eventually tracked a couple down on Amazon that could be delivered within a few days - different brands, so I tried one of each, in case the fit was no good. They cost more for one than I'd usually pay for a pack, but I couldn't get by indefinitely on just 2 polo shirts, as he never gets 2 days out of his clothes.

So, the first day of wearing one of them, he goes and "spills" half a bottle of black poster paint all over the place - then wipes his hands all over himself. This is the outcome after washing. £9 of polo shirt written off after one wear. I told him that if it happened again, he'd have to wear the ruined shirt.