To get rid of the clothes?

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I'm wanting to tackle and reduce the general "stuff" in the house.

I have one DS who is 3 and one who is 6mo and a wardrobe which is bursting at the seams.

Most of the clothes are DS1, mostly hand me downs so some stuff he's not quite grown into yet etc
I know for a fact there's stuff I've never even put on him but continue to leave in the wardrobe.
There's also clothes I'm keeping to be hand me downs from DS1 for Ds2.
Everytime I look through it I think "oh but he will wear it one day" yet I never put it on him.

But realistically how many pairs of jeans, trousers, shorts, tops and tshirts does a 3yo need?
I'm finding myself in a constant cycle of doing piles and piles of laundry and being overwhelmed with how much stuff there is and not putting it away in the wardrobes because of the sheer effort it takes to re-sort it all.

How many things do I keep? 1 light coat 1 winter coat, 2 of each just in case?

Help!

I prefer to have more cheaper clothes so I don't need to do washing so often. I work ft, have long commute etc, so it's easier for her to have w fresh outfit for every day of the week, plus she probs had some spares aged 3 when they get dirtier. It worked well for us!

Could you move some of it out of the wardrobe and sort it into boxes/packing cubes so there is only stuff in the right size for this season in the wardrobe and see how much you actually have

Ds (4) has had new clothes about every 6 months since he was born...it's so many clothes (I buy lots but cheap I guess) so every time he outgrows stuff or it shrinks in the wash, gets too dirty to wash out it goes (in charity if it's good just too small or clothes recycling if it's dirty/has holes etc)

Give it to charity, let someone else make use of it.