Just how many pairs of pj's does a 5 year old need ?

Who, phoenix?

Why does she change her clothes 4 times a day?

I don't get why they have this mountain of ironing - talking about about a week's clothes for each person perpetually waiting to be ironed, including sweaters, track suit bottoms, pyjamas and other items that, if tumbled for a few minutes whilst damp and hung up, wouldn't need ironing at all. Every time I go to my daughter's, she has the ironing board up behind the safety gate, and will dash in to the kitchen to do another 15 minutes of ironing to try and get the pile down (she irons, he cooks). Her partner comes in from work and changes into clean clothes for a couple of hours, then they get dropped in the washing basket when his pyjamas go on. That's three lots of clean clothes a day for him, two for her and two for their twin girls, sometimes more when they get spills and stains on their clothes. Fresh pyjamas every day, too!

Therefore, they buy lots of pyjamas, tee shirts and casual clothes to avoid having the washer on twice a day. I've never seen so many clothes and they'll get worn just a few times before being discarded. Their friends are all the same.

Maybe it's time to go back to wearing big pinnies to cover clothes and keep them clean for a couple of days.

Is it easier to dump clothes in the laundry basket than to hang them up or fold them and put them in a drawer? My GS1 doesn't seem to believe in changing his clothes. I suspect he would sleep in them if he could get away with it. His sister (11) has an inexhaustible supply of rather chic gear, mainly from Primark, but she does wear the same PJs two or more nights running.

My daughter has the same thing about not wearing things two days running, which involves her in extra washing and ironing - I can't make out why she gives herself all this work.

PS - from Ruth Goodman on the Victorian Farm series - you can halve, or more, the amount of detergent and get the same result. She has stopped using it at all. I use a very little for the smell!

Said it before re toys and presents- kids nowadays (in the UK) have far far too much of everything- it is ridiculous. Same here Aka, got told off for putting perfectly clean clothes from yesterday on. Why on earth not?

Ecologically speaking, millions of wash loads could be avoided- water, electricity, detergent, etc ... it would be interesting to get proper stats on the difference it could make. Huge I imagine.

Don't get me started! My dgds, all three of them 14,11, (Oxford comma)and 2 yrs, have masses of clothes and my dd and dil are always faced with mountains of ironing.

Whose fault is it? Well, the parents are the ones who buy most of the clothes and let them get away with dropping them on the floor, dumping them in the wash baskets and putting more clean ones on!

I have no sympathy! [grumpy old woman emo]

Charleygirl I find it hard to convince my DGD (12yrs) that when she comes in from school she only needs to wear a track suit or similar as she is just sitting doing her homework for an hour or so then her evening meal/getting ready for next days school why does she need to dress in clean clothes every evening ? she has not got her clothes dirty at all and the said same track suit could be worn every evening so saving DD machine loads of washing!! the boys are a different story altogether

Gally I think she would behave differently if she was in charge of the washing for even a day. I am assuming that her clothes appear in her wardrobe and drawers, miraculously clean and ironed, hung by the house fairy.

I'm always being told off when I have the GC overnight because I've put them back in yesterday's clothes (not undies of course) because they were perfectly clean.

Yes, they all fit and only 3 unmatched socks in addition to the 27 pairs! She changes her outfit at least 4 times a day and everything appears in the wash even though it has only been worn for perhaps an hour or two [duh!]

Do they all fit her or have smaller ones just got left in the drawer?

I have to say that watching my younger grandchildren at breakfast when still in their pyjamas, I can understand why quite a few pairs are required – dripping Vegemite, toast crumbs, spilled milk, sploshed cereals…

My mum always said "one on, one in the wash and a clean one" This didn't apply to socks and undies though.

No wonder the draws wouldn't shut

27 PAIRS of socks Gally ? When I am forced to rake in the DGC's drawers for socks I seem to find 54 single socks and not a PAIR in sight. Thankfully, there has developed a fashion, encouraged by their teacher, among DGS and his P2 pals to wear odd socks, the greater the mismatch the better. The DGDs mainly wear tights in winter so at least the two stockings are joined permanently at the top