Do you send you kid to nursery in dirty clothes?

[Ohcordelia]

By dirty clothes I don’t mean actually dirty, more stained say with some paint that won’t come off or a food stain that won’t come off but they are washed and clean albeit stained.

I do, and i get mine cheap clothes to wear from supermarkets or vinted to wear to nursery because I know they’ll get ruined, and ruined they do, but in the pictures we get sent home, it doesn’t look like anyone else does. All the other kids clothes are sweet little coordinating outfits (next, jojo maman, marks etc, yes Ive spotted a few things that I’ve seen online).

don’t tell me I’m the only one and that makes me really scutty?

“I think it depends on the school and the area tbh. If it’s in a working class area next to the local council estate I think it’s more socially accepted that parents can’t afford new clean clothes.”

Working class people are much more likely to worry about stains on clothes and are more likely to dress their children in designer outfits in my experience.

My dc left nursery in July but I had two sets of clothes for them- one for nursery and one set for home. The nursery clothes were joggers, t shirts and sweatshirts. They were frequently stained but I didn't care as long as they were clean. Most of the clothes were supermarket or M&S. At home dc would wear nicer, non stained clothes however we might use the nursery clothes for home occasionally but not the other way round. My dc went to nursery in a very affluent village that I worked in and many parents sent their children in branded clothes. At the end of the day they all came out just as messy as my dc.

Indeed.

I buy lots of cheap T-shirts and joggers but they get stained. His clothes are clean and I am not worried beyond that.

It’s a very middle class area. I don’t see how this changes whether I decide to keep using a T-shirt that’s a bit stained.

If I can't get a make out, I generally get rid but I've found that if you leave something on the washing line for a couple of weeks, the combination of rain and sun lifts most things eventually.

My kids mostly live in second hand cloths anyway. We usually get a bin bag sized bundle from either pass it on or Facebook marketing place for about £20, so I'm not precious about it. We don't have separate nursery clothes, as they're just as messy and likely to get covered in mud at home, but I do keep a few nice outfits to one side for when they need to look more presentable.

Yes, mine went to a fully outdoor nursery. All the clothing was stained in some way. The Winter all-in-one suits got hosed (child inside) once a week and washed properly once at Christmas.

Yes, I was a bit embarrassed to send to nursery school in stained clothes, but found that nice new clothes were coming home stained with food / paint / black pen marks, so especially the 3 tops that have black marker pen marks on them, after washing, just keep those and a few others aside for nursery school now, and my mother bought some second hand clothes from charity shop for nursery school and said the same thing to me, and keep the newer clothes for non-nursery days.
I also keep the jumpers that were hand knitted away from school too, as have had one go missing, that teachers never found, and so because of that, and handmade don't have labels to write names on, and so GrandMa's knitted jumpers don't get pen/paint stains etc.
I'm also choosing darker colours for nursery school recently, so any stains won't show up as easily ;)
xx

When DD was at nursery I bought a load of white fruit of the loom style t shirts in different sizes and we had a great day tie dying them (along side anything else white we could find like pants, socks and vests as we had loads of dye left over). They then became her nursery uniform alongside jersey black trousers / shorts depending on the weather and it made no difference if she got paint or pen on them, it was very clearly a 'uniform' and cost me very little to do.

DNiece isn’t much older than DD, and we were given a bundle of “nursery clothes” from them, so most of those have stayed as nursery clothes purely because they aren’t necessarily to my taste (sorry DSis) or are pretty well worn.

We do have a nursery box for ease in the mornings, with outfits bundled up, but there are very few things off limits. DH tried to send her in wearing “a nice dress and tights” the other day and I stopped him, but purely because she’s still crawling a bit and it seemed awkward for her, and faffy for nappy changes for them.

Yes I do.

I don’t like it, but I do.

Everything gets destroyed by paint. I can send them in a new (cheap) T-shirt and it can be destroyed on day one.

No point worrying about it / spending money on extra clothes.

Foolishly sent them in a nice coat one day, assuming it would be safe, but they did painting outside that day… no more.

@Ohcordelia

Grease- fairy liquid (dishwashing) rubbed in before putting in normal wash

Red stains wash as normal then dry in sunlight.

Ink marks - soaked in milk, it won't look like the stain has shifted until after it's been washed though.

but to answer your question- yes clean but stained is fine! You probably just couldn't see them on the photos!