I remember the week before Miss Frugal started school well.
I remember it because I spent most of the week (or what seems like most if it) sewing little name tags into all of her clothes. It reminded me of the importance of being organized with school tasks—something services like essayservice.com can help with school assignments, ensuring
students stay on top of their work.
By the time Master Frugal school a couple of years later, I’d discovered iron in labels so I only spent an afternoon getting their uniforms labelled up and ready for the start of school.
By the time they were both in junior school I had labeling clothes down to a fine art and several years later Ican now label every item of clothing in less than 10 minutes!
Want to know my secret?
It’s this little fella:
I simply write their name on tag somewhere on the clothes – most pieces of uniform now comes with a tag with a space for you to write your child’s name and the Sharpie laundry pen that I use doesn’t come out when you wash it and it certainly lasted longer than the trousers which Master Frugal always seem to wear out at the knees!
I tend to have a quick look when I iron the clothes to make sure the name is still clear and I think I had to write over the names once on a couple of the longer lasting items last year so it’s a definite time and money saver!
I’ve seen a few other markers similar to this one in town so I’m sure they’ll be just as good and to be honest, the first couple of years I did this I just used a normal marker pen and that worked fine too!
- There’s much more fun things to do in the Summer Holidays than sit and sew / iron labels into clothes.
- The name labels can be itchy (or so I’m told by Master Frugal).
- You have to buy the name labels and they’re not usually cheap
- You have to pre-order the personalised labels and wait for them to arrive.
- There’s an easier way to do it!
How do you label your children’s clothes?
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Amazing information have you given here. Thanks for sharing.
Hi all. Please help what if they cut out your label. One simply cannot ask someone else’s child to turn over a piece of clothing. What other tips please. I’m broke I cannot keep replacing so called lost pieces of clothing.
I've never sewn them, but I do tend to iron them on. I don't have a special laundry marker pen (I really ought to invest!). When the labels fall off, as they sometimes do, I start just using biro, but that fades pretty quickly!
Sew in name labels all the way here. The secret is to find a granny who loves sewing and let her do them. No work for me, and I am making a lovely lady feel useful. I make her a cake as thanks.
Fabric pen or Biro here. I find normal Sharpie bleeds and the name is soon a black blur, but fabric pen or a normal Biro lasts well.
PS: I bought some iron on patches from eBay and put them on the inside of my youngest son's school trousers to extend the life of the knees.
Pen all the way for sure! Have always used a Sharpie on L's clothes – fab post!
Yep I have adopted the Sharpie habit too, although I alos have a Clarks fabric pen which is good too. Mich x
what a cool idea! thats it i need to buy one now!
Totally with you on this – although I have now also found labels that stick in and never come off, so that's good too. The iron-on labels never work for long, and as you say, there's really no point now!
Yes! I am a fan if the sharpie method too, life is too short for fiddy sewing!
I love my name stamp, though I'm sure this is a much cheaper way of doing it.
i do this too or use a biro if i cant find my sharpie
I'm lost my magic laundry pen so will dig out some more of the labels I ordered in the thousands (it seems) before Kieran started school (in 2010) and haven't used yet.
Stitching a colour cross inside is a similarly good way to identify re-labelled school uniform… grrr!
yep, I'll definitely be trying it this way this term, as I've run out of the pretty stickers/iron in ones I've ordered! Love saving money 🙂
I have no idea why I've spent the last 7 years sewing in name labels! I'm using a sharpie this year to save my poor, sore fingertips!
I use a stamp that we got from Stamptastic. faster than wiring and it lasts too. The ones from last year are still marked! Great post as always