Childs clothes and organisation - how do you do it?

[VickityBoo]

Just wondering how people organise things. We used to be pretty good but now our daughter (3) has more bits and pieces things tend to get thrown in the first drawer that comes to hand!

In theory, her room is organised:

Small(ish) wardrobe with two drawers underneath
A chest of drawer unit, quite big, with three drawers

Wardrobe contains dresses and jumpers plus a couple of dressing-up bits and tunics or long t.shirts

Wardrobe drawers contain 1) trousers and leggings and 2) tights

Chest of drawers goes like this:

Top: PJ's and vests, wicker basket for knickers and socks (overflowing basket)
Middle: T.shirts, were once neatly folded, now kind of thrown in or laid flat on top of each other
Bottom: This is awful. Still contains washable nappies from the earlier days which take up lots of space. Also a few big jumpers and some hats.

I'm really needing a clever way to store knickers, tights, leggings, vests and PJs as they're all small but there are lots of them!

Please give me your ideas! I shall be tackling it all this week.

I think your OP answers itself!!

Put washable nappies into storage, vacuum pack in loft?box in garage?freecycle if you can bare to part? Pyjamas can go in the gap they have left?

Go through drawers one drawer at a time, make sure everything still fits and put away neatly, throw/ give away those that don't fit!

Sock basket, make sure all socks have a friend, part with any that don't!

It seems like you've got it all organised just needs rejuvenating!

Personally I woudl chuck/give half of it away. How many clothes does one child need? Better to get rid of stuff she doesnt wear than get more storage to fit it all into. I'm all about the paring down !

I have drawer dividers in mine from Ikea. They are fab for socks, vests, underwear etc.

If you can't get to Ikea do you have any shoeboxes or small boxes? I use these in other drawers to split stuff up. Also have other shop bought drawer dividers.
Also have a piece of cardboard that I have folded to separate ds' jumpers and t-shirts.

Charity shops will take your nappies if you can't sell them elsewhere. get rid!

I am sorting out ds2's clothes at the moment. Nice to have it all neat and tidy for a week

Drawer organisers are fab we are just tight on money so not buying such things at the mo.

I went through trying things on her and storing non-fitting things about 2 months ago. She doesn't grow much so is wearing stuff she had 18 months ago still! Socks are all paired, I did that job a couple months ago too.

Okay, I just need to sort it better! Washable nappies we're keeping so when (hopefully) number 2 comes along we have them.

Just one word of advice if you have too many x's. Pack the smallest ones away even if they just fit. Otherwise you don't get the wear out of the new ones.
Also helps get you and DD, when she's older, out of the habit of being too sentimental about things.
Convincing DD2 to part with tops with sleeves at her elbows that look daft is a fight.
Really nice hand-me- downs from her sister have gone to the charity shop unworn because she hung on to the size below.