If you sewed all your PFB's name labels in, did you resew handmedowns for sibling?

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Question mainly relates to school jumper/polo shirt sort of stuff.

DS's outgrown uniform has his name neatly sewn into all items (PFB).

DD is going to wear some of it. Do you cut the labels showing the eldest's name out and put the younger one's name in it? I have been thinking of crossing out DS's first name in laundry pen and putting DD's name in pen, leaving the sewn label showing the surname. What do people do?

should read surname

We can't just have our surname as it is a common name.

If you put names in socks M&S have this year started weaving a white panel into the inside cuff of their school socks to write their names on! Which I got really excited by, but DH thought I was insane...

If your DCs are called lets say Gemima , Andrew and john Smith couold you have labels saying G A J Smith and circle the first letter in permanent pen?

My ds in year 4 has some 4th hand jumpers jumpers that belonged to a friend's dd who is now in year 11. They still have her name in them - but have been worn by my dd, then the original owner's little brother before coming down to him. He doesn"t appear to be scarred but this, but I'll get back to you in 20 years!

Someone said to have forward planning and just use the surname.

I say have real forward planning, and give your children the same first initial

gorione you can even fold in the irrelevant initial

My parents were very clever - they called me Wilhelmina Jane Badger and my little sister Hermione Winifred Badger.
Tapes all said H W Badger - folded the H under for me and undid it for sister.
Things that got written in got W Badger for me, then an H put in front when handed down

Personally I resew but that's because in a fit of pfb madness I had dd's tapes done in pink...

Socks yes - I would forgive you for doing that - however I do not bother labelling socks!! Too much labour for something worth so little. However sometimes it's not so much the value but that it's yours and now it's out there ... gone .... missing...unloved... or worse - someone else has it grrrrr that really gets to you!

Where do the missing lovingly clearly labelled items go????

Mostly I unpicked and re-sewed, but for some things (socks for eg, but some other items too) I just left the older childs name in. This may be a reaction to always having my brothers' name tags in all my clothes (& none were hand me downs due to the age gap) as my mother ordered a million name tags for both of them and was too stingy to order any for me. I hated it. The other reason was that dh was incapable of putting clothes in the right place unless they were correctly named and as getting the washing in & distributing is something he quite often does, it made it worth it (actually even if they were correctly named he often struggles too).

@ Poppincandy!

DD1 has these iron-on transfers. When DD2 (who is nearly 5 years younger than DD1) goes to school she will have many of her items of clothing labelled with her big sister's name but others will be new for her and will contain her own name.

I have a solution to the school not knowing who PFB surname items belong to... get yourself an unusual surname (the same as your DCs or the plan won't work) and get yourself a job at the school your DC attend. Everything with your surname on will come your way*; bookbags, painting, cardigans etc. etc. Ideally you need a DH/DP to get a job at your DCs' secondary school for the plan to work in the very long-term.

I've got the odd surname, teach in DD1's school and DH teaches in a school we'd like her to go to in the future!

*I speak from experience - why does anyone think I'll fit in to an age 5-6 cardigan?