Need labels for school, but want a few for multiple kids. Not 40 labels per child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just Sharpie the label inside the piece of clothing. No need to contribute to the overmanufacture of needless items. Nobody is impressed by or cares about your cute little labels.

Stickers are easier, faster, more visible, stick to more surfaces (like shoes) and can be removed when you donate an outgrown item.

[Anonymous]

We ordered a variety of labels once about ten years ago. Plain black on white. Last name only. I may use them up this summer when elder child goes off to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I keep labels year to year. I've needed them for school, camp, then eventually college. You'll use them. They aren't expensive and ordering every year is a pain.

Re college— I have one going next year—what are you labeling there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You will blow through 40 labels easily the first time your kid goes to camp. Just order the labels.

+1

When my oldest was first going to school, I bought what I thought would be enough labels (soooo many labels) to get my three kids through elementary. A lifetime supply.

Two years later, littlest isn’t even in school yet, I’ve already had to reorder.

We bought Name Bubbles and are very happy with them. And as a fellow mom of three - just use last name ones. We bought a bright, standard color and font (bright red, white letters) so even my youngest can recognize what’s ours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I keep labels year to year. I've needed them for school, camp, then eventually college. You'll use them. They aren't expensive and ordering every year is a pain.

Re college— I have one going next year—what are you labeling there?

Do not send your kid to college with name tags!

[Anonymous]

A lot of us don’t send our children to sleepaway camp.

I labeled coats and jackets with sharpie. Backpacks were monogrammed until the kids were old to enough to mind their own stuff (and object to monogramming.)

I can count on one hand the number of things we’ve lost.

[Anonymous]

Mabel’s Labels are great. My middle schoolers just finished up some I ordered when theyw ere in early elementary and another pack from baby life! I just ordered new packs bc one is going to school with a uniform. I did do one pack in the interim that was just last name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of us don’t send our children to sleepaway camp.

I labeled coats and jackets with sharpie. Backpacks were monogrammed until the kids were old to enough to mind their own stuff (and object to monogramming.)

I can count on one hand the number of things we’ve lost.

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Your family is unique, as most kids lose stuff all the time. And we get it, YOU didn't send your kids to sleepaway camp, but millions do. Agree, you'll use way more than 40 each year just for that. Then there's sports gear, jackets, water bottles and so much more.

Taking a look at any ES lost and found, where they accumulate so much they have to donate quarterly, and you'll see kids losing things is the norm, not the exception

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Either Avery labels or masking tape. I did the latter back in the day.

Also, "Brother" label maker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of us don’t send our children to sleepaway camp.

I labeled coats and jackets with sharpie. Backpacks were monogrammed until the kids were old to enough to mind their own stuff (and object to monogramming.)

I can count on one hand the number of things we’ve lost.

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Your family is unique, as most kids lose stuff all the time. And we get it, YOU didn't send your kids to sleepaway camp, but millions do. Agree, you'll use way more than 40 each year just for that. Then there's sports gear, jackets, water bottles and so much more.

Taking a look at any ES lost and found, where they accumulate so much they have to donate quarterly, and you'll see kids losing things is the norm, not the exception

Parents don’t scold kids for losing stuff and don’t take the kid to lost and found to hunt for the lost stuff. I work at an ES and parents almost never come check the lost and found. They just don’t care and therefore the kids don’t care. My kids cared because I cared and taught them to care.

[Anonymous]

Get the big order but w just your last name. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Labels (or sharpie) only help if someone checks the label. Once it’s taken to lost and found, it’s on the owner to come hunting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of us don’t send our children to sleepaway camp.

I labeled coats and jackets with sharpie. Backpacks were monogrammed until the kids were old to enough to mind their own stuff (and object to monogramming.)

I can count on one hand the number of things we’ve lost.

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Your family is unique, as most kids lose stuff all the time. And we get it, YOU didn't send your kids to sleepaway camp, but millions do. Agree, you'll use way more than 40 each year just for that. Then there's sports gear, jackets, water bottles and so much more.

Taking a look at any ES lost and found, where they accumulate so much they have to donate quarterly, and you'll see kids losing things is the norm, not the exception

Parents don’t scold kids for losing stuff and don’t take the kid to lost and found to hunt for the lost stuff. I work at an ES and parents almost never come check the lost and found. They just don’t care and therefore the kids don’t care. My kids cared because I cared and taught them to care.

Not everyone can make it down to the school during school hours to check. It doesn't mean they don't care or that they don't adress the issue with their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of us don’t send our children to sleepaway camp.

I labeled coats and jackets with sharpie. Backpacks were monogrammed until the kids were old to enough to mind their own stuff (and object to monogramming.)

I can count on one hand the number of things we’ve lost.

.

Your family is unique, as most kids lose stuff all the time. And we get it, YOU didn't send your kids to sleepaway camp, but millions do. Agree, you'll use way more than 40 each year just for that. Then there's sports gear, jackets, water bottles and so much more.

Taking a look at any ES lost and found, where they accumulate so much they have to donate quarterly, and you'll see kids losing things is the norm, not the exception

Parents don’t scold kids for losing stuff and don’t take the kid to lost and found to hunt for the lost stuff. I work at an ES and parents almost never come check the lost and found. They just don’t care and therefore the kids don’t care. My kids cared because I cared and taught them to care.

Not everyone can make it down to the school during school hours to check. It doesn't mean they don't care or that they don't adress the issue with their kids.

The massive quantity of unclaimed items at the end of the year absolutely means you don't care that much. If you don't come get your kid's $150 winter coat the entire year, it means that he has another one at home he can wear and you just don't care that much about $150. If it were actually your kid's only coat, you would figure out a way to come find it. Ditto all the fancy hoodies. Additionally you have taught your child not to care because they clearly aren't in any trouble for losing the item (or they would come look for it) and they don't actually need the item because they have so many others (or they would come look for it.)

[Anonymous]

Last name is sufficient. My older kid's baby-era labels order purchased for daycare bottles lasted for his entire childhood. And I cut the names in half to get last names only for younger brother. The ones I bought lasted so well that I went back and the original seller had exited the labelmaking business.

I also used the washable Avery labels for coats and snow gear because they were only washed a few times per season. I originally got them at Target. Amazon sells them.