Comments on: Sometimes Less Is More http://www.largefamilyliving.com/2009/05/sometimes-less-is-more/ thriving in a 1.2 children world Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:10:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Claire http://www.largefamilyliving.com/2009/05/sometimes-less-is-more/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Claire Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:22:19 +0000 http://www.largefamilyliving.com/?p=73#comment-13 THANK YOU! for giving me "permission" to seriously purge some kid clothes. I've been itching to do it, but it seemed so irresponsible. I've got three kids 4 and under; "handing down" the never-ending surplus seems so logical, but it never seems to work out in practice. The season is wrong for the younger child, (your older was wearing 18month size during winter and your younger needs summer clothing) Or the younger kid gets an unexpected raft of nicer things from Grandma's garage-saling so your hand-me-down baggage remains surplus junk. Or there's an opposite-sex kid between the two same-sex sibs, and you aren't really going to dress her in bulldozer-themed playclothes. (or him in flower-embroidered jeans.) Or you plain forget about some hidden tub of clothes till the younger kid has already outgrown that size. Ugh. SO NOT WORTH THE EFFORT. lol. My first thought upon discovering #4 was on its way was, "dear God, what am I going to do with all the clothes???" THANK YOU! for giving me “permission” to seriously purge some kid clothes. I’ve been itching to do it, but it seemed so irresponsible.

I’ve got three kids 4 and under; “handing down” the never-ending surplus seems so logical, but it never seems to work out in practice.

The season is wrong for the younger child, (your older was wearing 18month size during winter and your younger needs summer clothing)

Or the younger kid gets an unexpected raft of nicer things from Grandma’s garage-saling so your hand-me-down baggage remains surplus junk.

Or there’s an opposite-sex kid between the two same-sex sibs, and you aren’t really going to dress her in bulldozer-themed playclothes. (or him in flower-embroidered jeans.)

Or you plain forget about some hidden tub of clothes till the younger kid has already outgrown that size. Ugh.

SO NOT WORTH THE EFFORT. lol.

My first thought upon discovering #4 was on its way was, “dear God, what am I going to do with all the clothes???”

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