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Getting school Uniform ready

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codswallop · 01/09/2003 14:25

Anyone think that I can make last years white polo shirts as bright white as the new packet i have just opened? any point trying?

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doormat · 01/09/2003 14:36

This is the best time of the year yipppeeee
I dont think it is worth trying IMO because in a few weeks time those new polo shirts will turn dull like the old ones

Sorted all the uniforms out and all I have to do now is iron them the day they go back to school.
It is the only time I iron anything.

Ailsa · 01/09/2003 15:06

I more organised than ever this year, a case of having to be, dd & ds go back to school on Wednesday. No3 is due anytime now - EDD today! So uniforms were ironed and labelled last night. Bought some name labels from M&S - they are iron on, and they print them while you wait £4 for 50 labels, they let me have 2 lots of 25 instead of having to buy 2 lots of 50. Have to say they've ironed on well, but, have not yet been washed.

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codswallop · 01/09/2003 15:13

I use a laundry pen

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lou33 · 01/09/2003 15:32

I just use biro.

SoupDragon · 01/09/2003 16:32

I printed out my surname 100s of times onto an A4 sheet of iron on transfer PC paper ages ago to name DS1s clothes when I leant them to a friend. Still seem to have 100s left!

Have you tried Daz? Gets your whites white and your colours bright. Or is that a different powder... What about Oxyclean? Bleach?

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codswallop · 01/09/2003 16:58

think oxyclean should advertise on here!

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codswallop · 01/09/2003 16:58

Ps soupy - you a re an IT queen

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jac34 · 01/09/2003 17:01

I'm very organized as it's the first time I've had to do this !!!: I sawed the name tags on as I bought the clothes, and have used a laundry pen for their coats.
My twin DS's start tomorrow in reception class, they have been home with DH or me for 5 days a week, and only 2 days in childcare, for the last(nearly) 5 years.
I'm telling everyone, jokingly that I've been waiting for this for 5 years, but inside I'm gutted that my little boys will not be home with me. I think DH feels the same, he's coming with me to take them to school tomorrow.
We are both so pleased, that we've spent as much time with them preschool as we have, but it feels like the end of an era.
Sorry to go on but I'll really miss them, even if they are right little so and so's !!!

princesspeahead · 01/09/2003 17:52

am I the only person in the world who painstakingly sews on proper woven Cash's name tapes?
I feel a bit of a mug.

Twink · 01/09/2003 18:09

You and me both PPH

marthamoo · 01/09/2003 18:19

pph (can I call you that?), nope, you're not the only one. And as usual I have left it til the last minute, ds1 has had a growth spurt over the hols resulting in the purchase of new uniform and so..I have to sew tapes on 3 pairs of trousers, three sweatshirts, and 4 polo shirts. I've chilled a bit since he was in reception and I no longer sew labels on his socks. I know, I know, that's anally retentive. Only blessing is that he has a short one syllable fore and surname..so glad he's not Algernon Fortescue - Smythe III

jac34, oh it's such a wrench. I was OK the first couple of days but on the third day I came home to an empty house and sat at the kitchen table and wept. It struck me that it was for ever - and that time of just me and him - together, would never come again. Oh I'm coming over all emotional now

marialuisa · 01/09/2003 18:42

I got a massive lump in my throat when DD's Cash's nametapes arrived. I've just finished sewing everything and i keep looking at her and thinking "be gentle with her". In my defence she's only 2.5y and going into nursery.

Was quite cross to see that Woolworths now offer really nice Cash's nametapes with pictures on. they cost the same as plain ones. Only found out after 144 of the ordinary kind arrived.

marialuisa · 01/09/2003 18:44

Does anyone else have to send their kids back in summer uniform? It's freezing up here and DD will have a summer dress and ankle socks until November. As the school sells all its own uniform i think this may be a money-making scheme, there's no way the dresses will fit her in April but the next size up were too wide as well as too long.

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codswallop · 01/09/2003 18:45

why sew when you can write? took me 5 mins tops

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TalkingTree · 01/09/2003 18:45

My Dd1 starts reception this week. I'm gutted, she's excited. Idon't know why I'm so emotional about it its not the empty house thing here, Dd2 and ds are still at home. Perhaps its because I can remember my own first day at school very clearly it is my earliest sharp memory, and I find it incredible to have a child of an age that I can remember, IYSWIM.

I am an anal mug -- I have sewn woven name tapes on to everything, including socks.

fisil · 01/09/2003 19:01

I've sewn too. And I was sewing on iron-on woven labels. I didn't think they stuck very well (and it was a total labour of love, I quite enjoyed it). Anyway, as ds is only 8 months old, I figured that if clothes got mucky and mixed up at nursery, he wouldn't be great at identifying what was his!

scottiebabe · 01/09/2003 19:02

Last year i send dd back in summer uniform but after three days she was back to blouse and skirt etc
I too have sewn cash's name tape on - dd cannot wait til thursday as she bored stiff and looking forward to going to year 3

SueW · 01/09/2003 19:05

I'm a sewer of Cash's too.

Luckily only 4 to do this time as DD still fits most of last year's school uniform

lou33 · 01/09/2003 19:24

I started off with dd1 on her first day at school using proper name tapes. She's 11 now, dd2 has been through it and ds1 is about to start for the first time tomorrow. I am down to biro because I got fed up with the tapes falling off, no matter how well I sewed them on. Biro otoh seems to last forever, have been overwriting dd2's name with ds1's for the bits of uniform that he can wear.

I will miss him terribly when he is at school, but ds2 will miss him more. Where he is starting, he will only do 9-12 for the first 2 weeks, then 9-1 for a week, then he will go full time. I think it's a good way of getting first timers used to it.

princesspeahead · 01/09/2003 20:34

oh good, I thought it was just me.
worst bit is sewing elastic onto ballet shoes. always end up with bloodstains in the sweet little pink things...!

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codswallop · 01/09/2003 20:43

Kerrrrrrrrrrrrrrackers.

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jac34 · 01/09/2003 20:45

Mine are going full time from day one, but they have to come home for lunch, for the first two weeks. This is a right pain, but with a combination of DH taking a day, and I'm taking tomorrow off, and getting my Mum to do Thursday, we can just about manage it.

I know they will have no problem settling in, they are more than ready for it, I just feel really sad !!!

I think DH is coming,not only to see them on their first day, but also because he knows I'll be a wreck !!!

WideWebWitch · 01/09/2003 20:46

Blimey, I can't believe you lot sewing on name tapes! Oooh, you are proper mummies aren't you? We don't have uniform and I haven't labelled anything. Eeek. Dahlia, where are you? Tell me you haven't either, please?! (I'm thinking of your SlutzRUs admission and hoping you don't sew either!) Jac34 and all of you with children going to school for the first time, I do know the feeling, I cried when ds went last September and I feel sad at the end of these holidays too.

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codswallop · 01/09/2003 20:47

Im with you WWW

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codswallop · 01/09/2003 20:47

Ps no one seems to be answering my initial query!!

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