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[quote=Anonymous]Shirts and dresses get hung up. Pants, shorts, socks and underwear go in bins. Pans and shorts get folded and then stored vertically so you can see them all.

Also, DD wears a uniform to school and there are five uniform outfits in her closet and the full outfit gets hung on the hanger all together -- top and bottom, including leggings if it's cold enough she needs to wear leggings under her dress or skirt. These just get rotated around in the same order and I make adjustments for weather as needed through the year.

The rest of her clothes she helps me hang/fold and it really doesn't take that long. I do find hanging everything we can simplifies things. Clothes stay tidier on hangers and it's easier to see what she has, and it takes less finesse on her end to hang things up or get them out. It also allows us to pull choices out of the closet to decide what she is going to wear for something, and then put the rejected options away in two seconds without having to fold anything.

She has a small standing closet that is her height (she is 6) where all of this goes. I think this helps give her more ownership of her clothing which in turn makes it easier to encourage her to do more of the caretaking herself -- I'll throw a stack of clean clothes on her bed and tell her to hang it all up and she will, and even organize them the way makes sense to her. And she loves the ease of having the uniform outfits ready to go and it makes her more independent in the morning because we don't have to discuss what she's going to wear or discuss what is weather appropriate or whatever. She just grabs the next outfit from the closet and gets dressed.[/quote]

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