“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?

Oh, I've said that to my son!

Always, I know what I'm wearing all week.

I used to put it uniform on the DC the night before. Teenage DC do it themselves now.

I want a valet chair for my room.

My friend prefers to iron in the morning. Whatever works for you

I get it out but I don't lay it out. DS's nursery uniform I get out and fold ready for the next day and pop it on top of his unit.

I used to lay it on a chair.

Isn't it lying out the uniform? Laying refers to eggs, doesn't it?

Mine have always had one drawer each dedicated to school uniform, including socks/tights and PE kit.
It gets washed, dried, folded and put back in the drawer.

Only ever laid out 'clothes ladies' (😆) when they were small, but never the night before, just because they loved it rather than to be organised.

That was also my first thought when reading the OP!

Plus, I say having a lie in rather than a lay in 🤔

It’s definitely “lay out” -a common phrasal verb that has a few meanings. “Lie out” doesn’t exist. You can find the first in any dictionary. The second is nowhere to be found.

Of all the boring and pointless none-issues to make it to trending and get so many responses....yawn

No. It's laying out, from the dictionary,

"Is it laying or lying?
You lie down, but you lay something down. Lie does not require a direct object. Lay requires a direct object. The same rule applies to laying and lying (not lieing—beware of spelling)."
Use this mnemonic - LAY - (pLAce) and LIE - (recLIne)

You laid out clothes for you 16yos?!

Yep, a thing in our (tiny, 2 bed) house when I was growing up - my mum would hang them on the radiator in the hallway downstairs. In winter it meant your jumper was warm putting it on :)

I go up a few mins before her and lay out over the end of her bed. She’s 7, so don’t expect to do this much longer. Just helps make the morning smoother.

My kids are 8 and 10. Haven’t laid out clothes in a few years. They wake up at the same time as me, shower themselves, dress themselves (they know their timetable so know if it’s a pe day or regular school day), and make their own breakfast, all while I’m still having my coffee on the sofa. Oh and I don’t iron school clothes. Pointless.

I have to get dressed in the dark because I'm up so much earlier that everyone else. I always decide what I'm gong to wear the night before and lay it out on a chair

I just pull it out of the wardrobe/drawers in the morning 🤷🏻‍♀️

No, you don't lie a table after all. You lay the table placing the objects down

I have literally never done this. The youngest os in high school and eldest 26 so not going to start now.

I just left them to it at primary and now I also get them to do their own washing. So their drawers are a state of chaos. They manage to get to school in appropriate clothes most the time and not late.so all good.

Surely the answer is to get them to put it out the night before rather than you do it for them. They really should be responsible for this at 13

I agree and from reception I had them put away their clothes once washed, dried and folded so they knew where they were. There wasn’t any of this not being able to find things or me knowing better than them where certain garments were.

But ironing isn't laying out. DH does all the ironing on a Sunday, then the clothes (both uniform and normal) are put away into wardrobes to be retrieved each morning as needed.
Laying it all out every evening is double handling, so from an efficiency POV, it should be avoided.

No, I don't do it and never have. On a school day the DC would just open the drawer and take out their uniform and put it on, and on a non-school day they would just put on some clothes.
When they were really little, I'd get them dressed in their bedroom, where the clothes were waiting in drawers, so straight from drawer to child.
For myself, I probably should because I can find it hard to choose what to wear. But I wouldn't be able to know the night before what I wanted to wear the next day. Now I work it out while I'm in bed still in the morning, or while I'm making coffee, checking the weather forecast along the way.

I found that the more time we had in the morning, the more they dawdled and we were more likely to be late leaving the house.

A rushed routine meant we were on time. Toilet and teeth. (You aren’t supposed to clean teeth after breakfast, particularly after fruit juice). Then breakfast to avoid spills and stains. Upstairs to get dressed. They got their own clothes out of the wardrobe/drawers then met downstairs for shoes and lunch bags which I’d have sorted during breakfast. It helped that I’ve never wanted breakfast.

Yes the last few minutes were “hurry up, we’ll be late” but as I said, this would also be the case if we got up earlier, as the more time we had, the more they dawdled.

I have never 'laid out' my DC's school uniform for them. I'm interested to know how old some of the children are who are having their uniform laid out? I just make sure their uniform is washed, dried and hanging back up in their cupboards.

I generally get them to have two wears out of their uniform, so sometimes I scoop their clothes off the floor, fold and put in a pile for them the next morning. But annoyingly, this often gets ignored and they go straight to taking a fresh set out of the cupboard again out of habit!

I've realised I also do this for my work and gym clothes and undies.