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<blockquote data-quote="katya02" data-source="post: 198023" data-attributes="member: 2884"><p>I have gone the limited options route with more than one of my kids when clothes began to pile up in heaps, or clean clothes got mixed in with dirty. Interestingly, daughter has thanked me when I've pared down her closet and dresser, giving her fewer choices! I don't think many kids would feel this way, but in her case she seems to get overwhelmed every so often as the clutter mounts around her. easy child 1 and difficult child didn't seem to care much, as long as there was something to wear. When difficult child would complain that he needed new clothes I'd hand him something he hadn't worn in ages and remove something else from that week's laundry. difficult child resented all limits - if he knew about them. If I removed clothes when he was at school he didn't miss them.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and once they were teens and wanted to go clothes shopping more, it was a rule that before I would take them/let them go, they had to go through everything they owned first, weed out all worn out or nonfitting items, fill bags to donate to Goodwill where appropriate, and show me a tidy, sparse closet. It cut down on the number of shopping trips!! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="katya02, post: 198023, member: 2884"] I have gone the limited options route with more than one of my kids when clothes began to pile up in heaps, or clean clothes got mixed in with dirty. Interestingly, daughter has thanked me when I've pared down her closet and dresser, giving her fewer choices! I don't think many kids would feel this way, but in her case she seems to get overwhelmed every so often as the clutter mounts around her. easy child 1 and difficult child didn't seem to care much, as long as there was something to wear. When difficult child would complain that he needed new clothes I'd hand him something he hadn't worn in ages and remove something else from that week's laundry. difficult child resented all limits - if he knew about them. If I removed clothes when he was at school he didn't miss them. Oh, and once they were teens and wanted to go clothes shopping more, it was a rule that before I would take them/let them go, they had to go through everything they owned first, weed out all worn out or nonfitting items, fill bags to donate to Goodwill where appropriate, and show me a tidy, sparse closet. It cut down on the number of shopping trips!! ;) [/QUOTE]
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