“Laying out school uniform”

[museumum]

I’ve just realised that I’ve never actually considered the phrase “laying out school uniform” literally. Does anybody literally do this the night before? And if so, where? Have you all got massive “dressing” rooms? With space to lay out outfits?

We prep the school uniform, iron shirts and things. But it needs to stay in the wardrobes until it’s time to put it on.

AIBU to think laying it out isn’t really a literal thing?

My 4 had uniforms hung up on their picture rails.

My grand children stop one night a week and they share the guest room. Uniforms are fresh and clean and hung over the bannister outside their room 😂

It was ever thus 😂😂

What are you on about? You're literally making zero sense?

I have done it for dc but it doesn’t make much difference - either draped on a bedroom chair or hanging in wardrobe, either only a metre or so from bed. If it’s midweek I do check there’s uniform ready to be worn but that’s it.

Nope, I don’t do any of that.

Getting darkened on?

Yes uniform is laid out over the banisters for both DS primary school age alone with spare jumper and shirts for the week hung up. It is visual
management for what is there. On days when we leave at 7am in sports kit , everything is physically laid out on the landing carpet outside their bedroom doors.

Whereas my hallway is central to every room, therefore they pass through the hallway several times during the “getting ready” process.

Like, getting darked on - you know? Having the dark go on them overnight. Ick.

I’m h yeah I lose sleep about that at least once a week.

say what…?

I’m retired and I put my clothes ready each evening for the next day. It means there’s no staggering about half asleep in the morning, looking for a rogue sock.

This is an eye opening thread. I’ve never laid out my DCs uniforms ever. I had no idea it was literal and thought it was a joke about being akin to a Victorian maidservant in frilly cap and apron.

The clothes are in their wardrobes which have hanging rail on right, and three drawers on the left. There’s no sense preplanning what to wear because it’s something we all decide on when we get up in the morning depending on weather and our own inclination. We’ve never had the “can’t find” situation because we are very tidy and everything we own has its own home. The clothes are all well sorted in the wardrobe and drawers so cannot fathom how any school age child could confuse a jumper with trousers? I don’t understand the “rail is too high” either as it’s easy to lower a wardrobe rail (did that when they were small), and lowering the wardrobe rail so they can reach it is surely more streamlined and time saving than having a set of chores every evening selecting and pulling out an entire outfit to wear that the child still has to reach for and pick up? They’ve both dressed themselves since they could walk- their decision as it’s easy when they’re wearing what they want to wear. Uniforms have choices- jumper or cardigan, trousers or skirt or dress or shorts- they’re hardly overwhelming.

I don’t understand the dressing downstairs…surely that creates more work because someone has to take the pjs back upstairs? And having clothes lying about a dining room, living room, hallway or on radiators is just so cluttered and untidy imho.

If it makes people feel less anxious and more prepared for the morning, fair enough but I don’t think it really saves time.

We did this for the first term or so of school, in reverse order, with socks and pants in the right place but on top. Nowadays DS lives with dismembered people all over the floor.

This thread really worries me. Can anyone be this clueless?

Anyway, I hang my child's clothes the night before on a small rack including underwear, accessories etc. So there's no last minute scramble in the morning. Keeps everyone nice and calm.

Me, clearly. I've literally never hung out anything! And we have a last-minute scramble every morning but that's probably due to my general cluelessness rather than just the lack of hanging out...

My kids did get dressed in the living room as young children.

@L3ThirtySeven why don't you understand- the joggers and jumpers are identical in colour and material. Folded away they are almost identical as just navy parcels. It catches me out sometimes and I'm 33! I'm not prepared for the drama of a 4 year old pulling lots of clothes out unnecessarily.

I don’t hang or lay out anything and we don’t have last minute scrambles.

Different ways work for different families 🤷‍♀️

Our clothes don’t ever end up hung in wardrobes so the uniform gets folded and put out from the wash then worn straight away. The laying it out is because i’m less organised, I suspect, not more.

Older dc do it themselves.

Well surely the solution is to have them folded differently or in different drawers or hang one but not the other. It seems like self sabotage to fold them identically and store them right next to each other.

If you don't get the 'dressing downstairs!' You are probably well off enough to afford hearing bills. Or you grew up rich

As a kid we got dressed down stairs as had no heating elsewhere. Fan heater. Bedrooms freezing.

My daughters wardrobe has a fixed rail with drawers under, her shoes go on top of the drawers on the shelf too. There is no room to move the rail down.

(think the middle section of this photo)

The thing is, about underwear or accessories, what if you get up and it's super cold (not forecast)? Then I'd be saying (to my DDs) to get out tights. DD2 has really long, thick, curly (North African type) hair and I used to do her hair each morning, so she'd pick accessories then depending if she wanted plaits or a bun or whatever. Now she does it herself and does tend to pick out what she needs the night before (she's 9).

Not at all. I grew up with no heat. Ice on inside of windows. No drink of water by bed as it would freeze solid. Three of us sharing a bed sleeping head to toe. Bare floorboards. Still got up and got dressed in the bedroom.

Ok. Well you could lower the rail on the right tbf. I guess in general it was an oversight when you selected that wardrobe.