A few months ago, while I was browsing blogs, I can across someone's laundry solution.  At the time, I thought they were nuts.  (no offense if it was you)  This lady had put away all but 3 outfits for her kids.  She said it was the most wonderful thing in the world because it reduced her laundry dramatically.  I thought that would never work for us becuase I would have to make sure I did laundry often enough to make sure they didn't run around without clothes.  But the biggest problem was that I would get sick of the outfits.  How could I possibly look at them in the same three outfits day after day?

Fast forward to Christmas.  N has always had a problem keeping his clothes in his drawers.  When he pulled something out, if he wasn't going to wear it, he would put it in the laundry instead of putting it back in his drawer.  For Christmas, he received the Armor of God and some Hulk hands and feet.  He would run around changing himself into different people.  He would go from N, to the Hulk, to Edmund (from Narnia) and back to himself again.  After awhile it evolved into changing clothes as well.  I couldn't get him to stop throwing his clothes in the laundry after only wearing it for 30 seconds!  I had had enough.  I remembered what I read a few months prior and decided to give it a try.  But instead of going down to three outfits, I went down to 7.  I emptied his drawers and gave him one drawer for each day, with his Sunday clothes being in his closet.  In each drawer I put pjs, a shirt, pants, underwear, undershirt, and socks.  On each drawer I labeled the day.  On Monday's I wrote, "put Monday's pants in Tuesday's drawer."  And on Tuesday, I wrote, "Wear Monday's pants."  I did the same for Wednesday and Thursday.  If he stayed dry at night then I had him put his pjs back in his drawer to wear the next week.  My laundry has shrunk by at least half.  I cannot believe how much laundry this kid created!  I am so happy with this system.  And when I get sick of a shirt, I can just switch it with a different one.  So thank you, whoever you are, for this system!