Really silly question but how do you cope with the transition from winter to summer clothes ?

[Blossomhill]

I just find it so stressful. Have to start bringing down all summer clothes from last year, checking what fits etc. Then go through winter stuff and pack away. Agggghhhhhhhhhh I hate it. Am buried under a sea of clothes :(
Rewash all summer stuff and iron (even though it was washed and ironed when packed away)
Am I doing something wrong with my method?

I wear most of my clothes all year - jeans, t-shirts, sweatshirts. I LOVE getting my summer clothes out. I definitely wouldn't rewash stuff, and would only re-iron shirts if they were very creased. The first day I can justify wearing shorts is the first proper day of summer - hooray!By October I am sick of summer clothes and look forward to getting all my jumpers out. I also love decluttering and taking clothes off to charity shops. Maybe I am a bit too enthusiastic about all of this? DS isn't really old enough to wear clothes for more than a year (only 2.5). I never iron his clothes. Infact, the only things I always iron are shirts and pillowcases.

lol blossomhill
I do this too and DH is amazed that it needs doing!
The tricky thing I find is at this time of year (or maybe a few weeks ago) it is often warm enough to need shorts (we had all that lovely hot weather 2 weeks ago) and yet the long trousers still need to be there as well.
A partic prob with DS2 who has loads of clothes (all hand-ons I hasten to add).
Then there are shorts which fitted last year which may fit this year but may not....
Zaphod, that is annoying that no-one is their age size, isn't it. Ds1 is 6 and ds2 is 3 but ds1 often wears 9-10 and some of ds2's clothes are 18-24mo still.
I too rewash and iron. The only way to improve on this is to make sure you label stuff when you pack away, but you prob do this anyway....
tinygang your image was me a few weeks ago. I also have a thing where I think - what happened to that pair of shorts DS1 wore? and then spend an hour trying to find them (only to remember that they got irretrievably torn etc)
See, I iron everything too and wonder how those who don't iron don't look like a creased up mess. But they don't. Maybe they do secretly iron and then deny it. At least I am open about my addiction lol. Blossomhill, we can start ironers anonymous. TBH franny's non-iron method sounds worse than ironing - who wants clothes on hangers all over the house for days?

I'm with franny on this one.... a non-ironer. I only iron about 10 or 12 items a month and they are DH's work shirts and the odd shirt of mine made of crisp cotton. DH wears mostly polo shirts and me and kids wear t-shirts.

I don't really subscribe to the hanging things method. My way is - if weather is good - hang neatly by the very corners on the line, then fold and put away. Or, tumble dry and then remove while still hot, shake them and fold flat and put away.

Another method is to dry on radiators as flat as you can. Again, they can be fold and put straight away.

As for bedding, towels, underwear.... my DH would know to call the men in white coats if he ever saw me ironing them!

don't understand this thread but then I live in ENGLAND .. you know the place where you can't count on the weather

there are people here who pack seasonal clothes away

get bigger wardrobes

winter - schminter .. summer - bummer