If you have kids of similar sizes, particularly if they're the same gender, then the person in charge of laundry may have a difficult time keeping track of who different articles of clothing belong to. We solved that problem when the big boys were still really little by putting a dot on the tag or collar of everything that belonged to Silas, as he's the oldest, and two on the stuff that was Devon's. Some people use initials, but that doesn't work for passing clothes down among kids who share initials and it gets messy and/or you run out of room if you have to cross out old initials and put in new ones each time clothing changes owners. Dots are small, simple, and effective.
We just added a dot to the things Silas outgrew and passed along to Devon in the early years. They've been about the same size for most of their lives and don't pass things back and forth very often, but the dots always help whichever kid is on laundry duty to know which brother's stack of clothes a particular item goes on. Teebs is so much smaller than the big boys that we don't put dots on his clothes, but we'd simply add a third dot if he was close enough in size that his clothing made doing the laundry confusing.
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