About Clothes

So here's the deal about kid's clothes as far as I am concerned. I think I speak from experience considering I buy and wash the clothes of a 5, 3, and 1 year old. It's not worth the money to buy expensive brand name clothing. Here's why: Children are disaster zones. They somehow ruin almost any clothing that touches their body. They utilize mud, markers, blood, grass, ketchup, or anything else they can get their hands on. If they can't stain it, they tear it.

Maybe I just don't have the right brand of stain remover, but I have serious trouble getting the stains out of their $30 OR $3 clothing. I admit, part of the problem is that I am too lazy to check the clothing before I put it in the dryer. I just assume the stains came out, until I am folding the clothes later and realize I was sadly mistaken. Everybody knows once you dry it, the battle is over. But sometimes, I do catch a stained item of clothing right after the wash and set it out to wash again. There are a few shirts on my washing machine that have been washed about 12 times in a row now over the course of 6 months...and the stain is still there. But I think as long as I haven't put it in the dryer, there is still hope.

So my way of dealing with this is to buy cheap clothes that I could care less if they ruin. It saves my sanity. And you know I need to conserve every last bit of sanity possible.

I will say that Cody's mom can get almost any stain out. She has tried to pass along her tips and products to me, but it never works as well for me as it does for her. I am just stain-challenged. I accept it. I move forward. I buy shirts for $1.50 on clearance at Target.