Is having a little consistency too much to ask!?!
We are a sharing family. Sharing is caring, or so I’m told. My sister Kristy ships all of Alexee and Braidens clothes to me for Shenzie and Heaten. When they’ve moved to the next size the boy clothes go back to Kristy for Carter and the girl clothes go to my other sister’s Ang and Stacey for Marlee and Haylee. So far it is working out great…we save a ton of moolah in clothes buying thats for sure.
Because Ang is raising a giant and we are raising midgets she is ready for clothes for her 6 MONTH OLD BABY that my 15 MONTH OLD TODDLER is still wearing. Marlee the giant is almost ready for the 9-12 month bin of girls clothes and Ang being even more anal than me wants to get it early so she can wash, rewash, and organize it all nice and pretty. I couldn’t find the bin of clothes anywhere. I searched the garage, the babies room, our room, the playroom….no 9-12 month bin of clothes anywhere to be found. Apparently for the last 15 months I have been wrong in how the clothing sizes go. See that Ang, I can admit when I’m wrong…it just so rarely happens you don’t hear it often….ahahaha. So anyway, back to the weird sizing of baby clothes. I was under the assumption that any clothing that said 3 months was for 3-6 and clothing that said 9 months was for 9-12. Noooooooo…that is not the case. Clothing that says 3 months is for UP TO 3 months, 9 months is 6-9 months. How stupid is that?!?!?!!? Then some clothes actually give you the range and say 0-3 months or 6-12 months or whatever. I like those clothes. So it seems that I’ve been putting all of the wrong sizes in the wrong bins. Oops. The only good thing is I found the 9-12 month clothes…the bin says 12 months and like any other sane person I assumed that was 12-18 month clothes. Silly, silly clothes. I’m not even going to get started on the sizing differences of Old Navy vs. Gymboree vs. The Childrens Place vs. Target.
Consistency people, it’s all about consistency!!!
The crazy Hat Wearer
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January 29th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I hear ya! I have to know what size they are at every store or particular brands. I guess it’s like adult sizes varying too. It sucks…why can’t there be some kind of standard??
It’s great that you all share clothes like that!
I get hand me downs for Madison but I don’t know anyone with an older boy so Jackson gets new clothes. Is that mean?
February 1st, 2008 at 4:59 am
I know exactly what you mean!! When people ask me what size the boys are in I have no idea what to say. We are in anywhere from 9-12 to 18-24. It does not even make sense! Maybe we should start some kind of petition :).