Clothing tips for same-size kids?

I have 2 boys 2yrs. apart but now wear the same size clothes....what I do is...put ONE DOT on the older boys clothes..and TWO DOTS on the younger ones (I use a laundry marker)...then it only takes a glance to make sure they get the right clothes. Once you do the same clothes enough times, you'll start remembering who's is who's.

I buy the same "amount" of clothing for each child. I don't worry about who has on what. When it is time to go home, I make sure to send the correct amount of clothing.That way my stress is reduced, and I am doing the right thing for them. ( a plus is that the wardrobe is doubled)So when I had Parrot, Phoenix,and lil professor, (all size 18 months) I purchased a total of 21 short sleeve shirts, 21 pairs of pants... 3 cases of diapers etc..When Parrot left, he got his "favorites" 7 pairs pants, 7 shirts etc... Then if I had "extra" play clothes I grabbed some of those too. When Phoenix left the same thing. He probably got a few more of the play clothes too. We adopted lil professor, so then I supplemented a few "new" things. It was too hard to keep up with who wears red or green ... what ever. I just needed to bathe, diaper, dress....

when you buy them separate them into two lots. Take a picture. when you go to pack them up to leave use your reference pic.

I have little ones close in age as well. We simply have a laundry basket in the closet for each child and wash, dry, and put away that child's clothing. That way the clothes never get mixed up.

^^^^ This - I haven't had to do this yet, but this is what I would do. If one of the children were given something special by a bio I would just make sure that particular clothing was kept separate for them.

When I had this issue, I bought clothes from Old Navy for one boy. The other child had bios that bought him tons of clothes but never from Old Navy. I was required to purchase $40 of new clothes each month for him, so I bought Gap, Gymboree, and Carter's. Basically, I knew if it was Old Navy it was for my now adopted son and if it was something else it was for my FFS. If I didn't have the issue with the bios buying all the clothes, I would have bought one at Old Navy and the other at another inexpensive retailer like Target.

Thank you for all the suggestions!! Now I have to decide which one(s) will work best for us!

I dont worry about which kid wears what either. I just separate it at the end as well.

I have a closet that is seperated by size not kid. If I buy it I do nothing. If a bio sends it I write that childs name on the tag. The only time the tag matters is visit day, and going home. Otherwise they all share. But the tag serves as a reminder never to send a kid in something the other family bought. I am lucky even with all the turmoil both of my sets of bios have a tendency to buy stuff for all 5. Yep thats right even the ones being tpr'ed on. Very rarely do they bring something for their own kid and not buy something for the other two even if its not equal they care enough to make sure the other kids have a hot wheel or something to open.

I did the same when I had two girls in the same size. I just bought additional clothes to supplement what we had. Both girls wore everything. When fd left, I packed things she liked. They didn't share things like coats & shoes. Everything else, if it was clean, they wore it. I had too many kids to worry about sorting. It was hard enough sorting by size since one was in size 18 month, two were in size 2, and one was in size 3/4.

I am getting ready to have this same problem as both of my little ones are moving into size 7 at the same time. I've been wondering how I was going to keep clothing separate. I know the girls will throw a fit if I get them mixed up. Generally since they each have their own laundry basket it shouldn't be a huge problem, but their clothing ends up in the bathroom hamper, so some of it does get mixed together. It also gets mixed together if someone dumps the dryer onto the load before (if I haven't folded it yet). Working full time with 4 kids at home means a lot of laundry, but not a lot of time for laundry. I don't always get it folded the moment it's out of the dryer. Thankfully I don't have to worry about keeping clothes belonging to the parents separate and accounted for too. If my girls leave us all of their clothes will go with them. I don't worry about who buys what in our scenario. Of course, for us the division only pays for $250 per year in clothing per child, and only at Wal-Mart. So, truly, I don't worry about what the division buys versus what comes out of my pocket. I know that most of it comes out of my pocket. The division's contribution averages to about $20.83 per month. It's hard to keep them in shoes for that. Given that in the 8 months I've had them the youngest went from a size 3T and is now going into a size 7...yeah. That clothing allowance just buys minimal basics. I'm mainly using that for socks and underwear.

I'm always in this boat :) older kids have their own clothes bucket and I wash separately. Baby/toddler things gets permanent marker with child's 1st initial on tag or up on the thick part of the collar if there are no tags.

My problem is I have 5 kids2 Girls are in 4's moving slowly into 5's1 boy is in 3/41 boy a solid 41 boy a 4/5So I essentially have 5 kids the same size..... I gave up keeping track, if they go home the girls go together so I send it all, if the boys go home I send a third of the clothes with each boy.

Neat ideas! My girls are 20 months apart but one wears 4/5 and one is 5/6 and as they age, the youngest will be in the same size as her sister (she will be small due to genetics)and eventually pass her, Im guessing by the time she is 6 she will be in the same size. Its good for me until them though because all of older sis's clothes will go to lil sis. Only problem with that is that older sis wants pink/purple and girly and lil sis wants blue and boyish! Maybe it is a girl thing, but they KNOW which are theirs, down to the socks (which are the same size) God forbid I try to get one to wear the others shirt or something! THATS NOT MINE! THATS NOT HERS, THATS MINE! When I sort clean clothes I enlist their help....they know by sight which are which! I could see getting a "color scheme" for each kid, but Id get tired of seeing one in blue/green ALL THE TIME, ya know? I like the dot system! That would be great for socks!

I'm really glad that you posted this. It's something that I hadn't thought of yet! I think what we'll probably do is put initials on the tags or something like that. I'm not sure yet!