Name Tags for clothes

[SnuffleTruffleHound]

Hi all

im a (48yr old) child of a dementia parent who has gone down hill too quick but now needs to be in a care home.

clothing labels, what works, what doesn’t, recommendations please?

thank you from someone who is swimming in shite

I used a permanent fabric pen and wrote on the actual clothes labels, soles of slippers etc.

Multiple names tags in multiple places on each item. We have found PIL wearing others clothes and have had lots of items go missing. FIL pyjamas seemed to go missing on a regular basis despite being labelled, socks also fall victim too. MIL has a collection of handbags which we have no idea where they came from and quite a collection of make up which she does not use. Laundry can be quite harsh as they wash at high temperatures so I wouldnt buy delicate fabrics etc. Label everything, not just clothing.

I use these for DD’s school uniform and kit however it is actually promoted as a Care home kit.

https://www.snappytags.co.uk/

You get the little plastic tags you attach to the care label then a series of stickers for non clothing belongings and shoes etc

Another vote for snappy tags.
expensive, though.
Take photos as well.

This. And this: Label everything, not just clothing. - that includes glasses, hearing aids, phone chargers, any bit of cable that can be taken out.

I looked at a pair of his pyjamas that i’d extracted because they’d acquired holes - the name i’d marked with permanent marker years before was still clear.

I use Stikins labels for school uniform. Bought a large pack and have labelled everything, from shoes to water bottle, bag to jumpers.

Sorry you are going through this OP.

Another vote for Stikins labels, used for school uniform and work well.

I use the permanent tags from Easy2name but I think laundry marker is probably thr most flexible.

I choose the softest fabrics I can find after one day arriving to discover my poor mum in a scratchy acrylic jumper next to the skin despite providing many tshirts. I'd rather buy some things that get ruined, or extract them myself to wash, than risk that again.

I used Stikins. They seem to be pretty indestructible. And iron-on woven labels, or the iron-on ones you can write on with a laundry marker, for items that didn’t have labels that I could stick the Stikins labels to (eg socks). Not perfect- they tend to fall off socks - but better than nothing.