Today I tackled the kids winter clothes. We store all our out of season clothes in huge plastic boxes in the garage. It is actually ridiculous how many clothes my children have so today I grabbed some garbage bags and sorted out what I wanted to keep and what I would give away. I was quite surprised when I had finished to find that I had filled up 3 big garden type garbage bags. I actually counted 7 pairs of size 8 jeans…….. who needs 7 pairs of jeans I ask you?. Certainly not any of my daughters. So I kept only the stuff that I knew my kids would wear. For the moment I have put all the clothes that I am keeping into a plastic box and my next job will be to sort it into sizes. Last winter I made a spread sheet of the types of clothes and how many of each item my children would need. I mark off what I have for each child and then I know what I need to buy. It saves me a lot of money and limiting the amount of clothes helps to eliminate the clothing clutter in the bedrooms.

Thanks to Susan and Janice for hosting Tackle It Tuesday at 5 Minutes for Mom , your motivation to get things done around the house is very much appreciated :) Go and check out more Tackle It Tuesday participants.

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