Hey ladies.. What are you guys planning on doing to organize your baby clothes?
We have both a dresser and a closet... But I'm not quite sure where to start and how to sort little mans stuff. What are you hanging up vs putting in the drawers? Are you separating the outfits (onesies from the pants) or keeping the outfits all together?
Not sure why this is so hard for me? Lol. Help FTMs.. What are you doin? Also, any STM tips as to what worked best would be appreciated!
Re: Baby Clothes Organization
When DS was a newborn, I had each size in a drawer; pants on the left, shirts on the right. As he outgrew stuff, I rotated the contents of the drawers, so the same drawer was always currently wearing, the one underneath was the next size up, etc.
I'm probably making that sound complicated, it's not. We had a drawer for size 3-month, a drawer for size 6-month, etc.
Now that he's a toddler, his main drawers are
shirts & pajamas
pants
too-big clothes
A warning about baby clothes, don't trust the sizes. There was stuff DS only got to wear for a short time or not at all because it ran small and by the time I thought it would fit (by the size on the tag), he had already outgrown it. What's a size 3-month in one brand may be the same as size 6-month in another brand.
I didn't start hanging stuff in the closet for DS until he was over a year, and then I just hung overalls and hoodies/coats. Most of his stuff gets folded into the drawers.
Our dresser is tall and narrow, so here is how I divided clothes:
Top drawer - onesies and shirt
2nd drawer - shorts/pants and PJs
3rd drawer - towels and wash cloths
4th drawer - bibs, socks, hats, and random things like that
5th drawer - clothes that are too big (and sometimes clothes that he's outgrown or are out of season. Kind of a catch all).
If I had another drawer, I would put blankets/swaddles in it.
I stored most clothes that were a size up away in bins, and would periodically sort clothes. If the dresser were larger, I would keep more clothes in a size up out.
We are thinking of moving an older (ugly) dresser in the closet since we have it laying around. Then buying a cute dresser or changing table to math the crib.
Did anyone else skip the changing table and use a dresser as part changing table?? Or will I regret that later?
Or you don't even need to do that, I don't have any set place where we change DS, he gets changed on the couch, floor, bed, pack-n-play (when newborn and it was at highest setting), etc. When he was an infant, we'd just put a towel or receiving blanket under him.
Oh & that chart is AWESOME!!!! I wish all baby clothes sizing was the same!
You guys are the best!
Praying unceasingly for a miracle. ALL welcome!
In bins, I seperated: pants, onesies and sleepers.
I'm still looking for a dresser for her and a bookcase thingy where I can keep diapers, hair stuff, lotions, creams, wipes.. I'm going to purchase little bins to slide in there.