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To think changing a school pinafore everyday is excessive?

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dilemma456 · 03/12/2009 10:39

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Scorps · 03/12/2009 10:41

Goodness me YANBU

I agree change say on a wednesday unless spillage (even then a spillage could be sponged off).

Imagine people with 3/4/5 dc doing this, lol. They would have no time to do anythign else other than wash pinafores

BoysAreLikeDogs · 03/12/2009 10:41

she is loopa da loop

take no notice

Macdog · 03/12/2009 10:42

YANBU

I'm with you on this one

mumblechum · 03/12/2009 10:42

Depends how messy your child is.

fernie3 · 03/12/2009 10:42

we dont change them everyday I have enough washing piled up as it is. Its not as though 5 year olds smell bad at the end of the day!

Wags · 03/12/2009 10:44

Tend to change DD's everyday (she has 5 dresses). She is in Year 2 but still seems to come home with something down it. We also have a dog, so even just a few minutes in the house after school and she is hugging the dog and covered in little white hairs, so a must for us really. So definately a necessity here, not being smug or a great parent either. Got 5 so I would not be washing the whole time, they were cheap anyway on the 3 for 2 in the summer.

Georgimama · 03/12/2009 10:44

No. She has too much time on her hands.

colditz · 03/12/2009 10:44

If ds1 had been a girl I would have had to change it every day in reception because of spillages. I had to change his jumper every day. Now he's old he can go 2 or 3 days, but in reception I could judge what he ate for lunch by the state of his jumper!

Morloth · 03/12/2009 10:47

DS gets a new clean uniform everyday. Because he seems incapable of not spilling something down it, falling over (or jumping) into a muddle puddle on the way home, rolling in something yuck, getting pen marks on stuff and so on. Maybe the little girl in question is a grot like DS?

Wags · 03/12/2009 10:47

Well presumably if like me she has one for every day, in theory she actually doesn't need to wash as much so that throws the 'too much time on her hands' theory out of the window.

slummymummy36 · 03/12/2009 10:48

Sounds a bit OCD to me!! I know mum that irons her childs pants, vests and even gloves!!

Obviously - I a slovenly to not consider these things important!!

Fennel · 03/12/2009 10:48

At least some of my dds needed clean pinafores (or trousers, and shirts and sweatshirts) every day in reception. Some are very messy at that age, they get food all over it every day. and glue and mud and other things, but especially the food.

But we never had 5 pinafores, 2-3 will do, if you are organised about washing midweek anyway. you can always sponge stuff off or send them in dirty in emergencies.

Bathsheba · 03/12/2009 10:53

I change my DD's entire uniform every day, BUT in my defense her school is essentially a building site at the moment as is awful for mud, and she is a huge tomboy and spends most of her time in that mud and in puddles...

So she genuinely comes home filthy every day.

However, I'd never boast to the other Mums about doing it..!!!!!!!!!!

Wags · 03/12/2009 10:53

See now I see myself as the slovenly, lazy Mummy. 5 pinafores. None of this sponging down or having to check and worry if its OK for the next day. She stays in in until bedtime (so no need for another set of clothes), then its chucked in the wash basket. If I do a dark wash mid week its done in that. If not its done at weekend. 1 dress, 5 dresses, makes no odds to the wash, they are only weeee things. Sounds like all you spongers and worriers 'is it clean', 'isn't it' have far too much time on your hands

JackTheHallsWithBauersOfHolly · 03/12/2009 10:53

God, DD1 only has one dress, it gets washed on a wednesday when she has gym and wears trousers in. If it gets very mucky I send her in trousers the enxt day or I wash and dry it that night.
She only has 2 leggings, one cardy, one school jumper and 3 shirts as well.
So YANBU.

ShinyAndNew · 03/12/2009 10:56

Dd1 loves her pinafore, and despite having plenty of skirts/trousers (she probably has got enough uniform for a clean set every day), will only wear her pinafore. It is washed on a Wednesday, unless she gets it dirty before that. She wears her blouses twice, before she gets a new one, unless one gets stained on day one. Her cardigan is washed on a Wed, with her pinafore. She gets new undies and tights daily, obv.

All of her friends do this too. When one of her friends got chalk on her cardigan at a play date at my house, her mum said she would wipe it off with a babywipe, because there was NO WAY, she was washing uniform on a Thursday night, just for the sake of one day.

YANBU.

Hando · 03/12/2009 10:56

I change my dd's unifrom everyday, most of the time it has yougart down it or paint or mud etc. It's not really any hassle, her clothes are only small so even a whole weeks worth of pinafores, skirts, trousers (we have a mixture) plus cardigans and polos only maks up 1 washing machine load. No hassle at all. If uniform was really expensive then I'd buy less and wash more - but uniform is so unbelieveably cheap in Asda, Sainsburys etc that a pinafore must only cost a few pounds, so I go for the easy way out of not washing mid week.

I would never send my daughter to school unwashed or in dirty uniform (unless it got dirty on the way in). SOme kids in her class often turn up in stained jumpers and holey tight (not through being very poor though).

nancy75 · 03/12/2009 10:58

i change my clothes every day, and do the same for my dd!

Hando · 03/12/2009 10:59

I can understand wearing unofrom for 2 days but a whole week? All for the sake of buying 1 more £3 pinafor dress, or popping it into the wash. Even if it's not dirty it's lovely to have nice freshly washed clothes, even for kids. I wouldn't dream of wearing the smae pair of trousers formore than 2 days maximum without washing, or the same top for more than one day.

Georgimama · 03/12/2009 11:00

She has too much time on her hands if she can't think of anything better to make playground chatter about than boasting how many pinafores her daughter has. I stand by my comment.

lucykate · 03/12/2009 11:00

dd has clean tights every day, but her polo shirt/skirt/pinafore will usually last all week, cardigan sometimes needs changing once but not always. ds, on the other hand, is a mucky little pup, and has got so muddy this week, we would have ran out of uniform had it not been a non uniform day today. it's all in the wash right now.

BlueKangerooWonders · 03/12/2009 11:02

it's the 2 extras for 'emergencies' that I don't get! so she never does a load of laundry from Mon-Fri??? What kind of emergencies are these? Does her dd take an extra one to school for lunch emergencies and a quick change ready for the afternoon!!!

Arsed · 03/12/2009 11:03

7 Pinafores

You'd think she's just buy two or 3 and wash them midweek like normal people

MayorNaze · 03/12/2009 11:05

dd has a skirt and a pinafore. she wears one all week unless there is visible dirt on them (but she does change out of them when she gets home). she is in y3 though and a "clean" type of child.

clearly i am slovenly to the point of sluttishness though

plus i have better things to spend money on than 5 pinafores

stealthsquiggle · 03/12/2009 11:06

7 ?

DS has 3 lots of everything and I do a uniform wash on Tuesday night - so yes he has clean everything every day (as others have said, it's easier than checking/spot cleaning)- exccept his jumper, since he hardly ever wears it, but I refuse to buy 5 of everything, let alone more (and the stuff he has is 90% secondhand anyway).

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