Aiden's Clothes for the Week

This might sound crazy and time consuming to many of you but seriously it saves me time.  Each week (for me it is Monday's) when I wash Aiden's clothes he and I sit down together to plan and organize what he will wear for the week.

 Aiden puts all of his clothes in these drawers that show which day of the week it is on the front.

He puts his underware and socks in first while I lay out the outfits for him to choose from for the following week.  I always have a section of play clothes and good clothes.  He also has his school uniform and Church clothes on sunday that are already picked for him. See video below for Aiden in action.

After He is finished putting up his underware and socks we go through the week together.  I say the day of the week and go over what possibly will be happening that day and let him pick out which play outfit he wants to wear that day along with a good outfit.  Note:  If he has school his good outfit is that and the same for church.  We only put two outfits in the drawers.  Then he puts the outfits in the drawer. Again click below to see Aiden in action.

While he is putting his clothes in the drawers I work on putting up his other clothes from the laundary basket.  It takes him some time to put up his clothes from each day because he likes to bounce around and be silly which I allow.  After all he just turned 5 less than a month ago.  Then when he is ready for the next day we do it again until we are done. 

Once we are done the drawers go in the closet and in the mornings
all I have to do is wake him up and he knows what to wear and everything.

I know it sounds like a lot of work but really it is only 30 minutes in which I am doing stuff I would be doing anyway like putting his clothes away.  In the long run it saves me morning battles of him figuring out what he is going to wear.  We started this last year about two weeks before my mother came to live with us and I can't tell you how much it has helped in the mornings.


Do you have a special system that makes organizing your child's clothes for the week easy?  Yes or No.  Please Share.