Please please please help me with the children's clothes! I need a system and help organising

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..and you lot are BRILLIANT at this.
In brief:

• I have 2 Dses 4 and 2
• Sort of thinking f having another so keeping all the clothes for now
• And obvs DS2 wears some of DS1's cast offs
• And there is lots of stuff which is too small for one and too big for the other
• Which means lots and lots of clothes and not much room to keep em

• MIL helpfull said "I had 2 dses close in age and used to have your DH in one colour and your BIL in another"

• BUT what about when DS1 (Red) outgrows the top and DS2 (blue) then gets it?!?

What is the best way to deal with all of this?

I am ordinarily a vaguely "together" kind of person and am vexed how much this is flummoxing me.

TIA

i have 2 dds 5 and 2.
dd1 has 4-5 clothes in wardrobe to wear and her 5-6 clothes are in a storage box on top washed and ready to grow into.
dd2 has 18-24 months clothes in wardrobe to wear and the 2-3 clothes (some new some dd1s old stuff) in a storage box on top washed and ready to grow into.
dd2s old clothes are vigorously sorted, anything stained/bobbled go in bin, anything i dont like goes to charity, anything that would be worn again by a future child/friends child goes in duvet chest in loft.
dd1 old clothes are sorted for what dd2 can wear, 3-4 clothes are in duvet chest in loft.
when they go up a size, the storage box clothes go in wardrobe, old stuff sorted into duvet chest, next size up comes out of loft washed and into storage box.
they share a room and a wardrobe but have a small chest of drawers each for pants/vests/socks/tights/pjs which are binned when grown out of.

Mine are 5 and 3, boy and girl. Initially I did use hand me downs but my DD is now expressing her views and will not wear 'boy' clothes.

I have all current clothes in the wardrobe and chest of drawers. All clothes as soon as they are too small are taken out of rotation, I chuck them in a pile in the spare room and when there is enough I box them and put them in attic.

I have a bag of too big clothes kept in each child's wardrobe which I check through periodically to make sure I haven't 'missed' the right time to wear them.

When I box the stuff into the attic it goes up in roughly the same sizes per box. When DH goes to put a box up I get him to check if there is a right sizes box to bring down. If there is I integrate the clothes into the wardrobe and chest of Drawers straight away. It's a more expensive way to store but I bought clear plastic ikea boxes to pack the stuff in so DH can look through the box to see if the right sizes rather than rifle through.

Thanks for this

I don't have a loft (part of this problem) have vac packages of stuff up to 18 months
but now am overhwlemed with 18m+
What is a DUVET chest?
(sounds brilliant)
off to google

I have a box in DS room (sits on top of his wardrobe) I put in it Xmas / birthday present clothes that are too big & hand me down clothes he gets from his cousin that are too big. I systematically check the box every few months to see if he's grown into any of it. Also have in his wardrobe one of those vacuum pack see through bags, any clothes that are getting too small get chucked in there, once the bag is full, I vacuum it closed, put a label on it saying 'Age 3 years' and shove it in loft ready for next baby.
I then start another vacuum bag, can get the really cheap in home bargains etc.

Good luck!

Sorry just read entire thread & realised you don't have a loft & already vac pack, ignore my last pointless post!!!

Would underbed drawers/boxes be of any use? One of my DD's has a built in drawer under her bed that all the to grow into stuff goes in. You can buy plastic boxes to go under beds.

sorry duvet chests are just material bags big enough to stote duvets in, i use them as they are soft so easier to store.