I spent my me-time today unpacking while ironing our clothes. How cool is that? :) I took the chance to hopefully finish fixing our stuff while the kids had their afternoon nap :)
Well, I am still not done unpacking. Nope, we didn't bring home tons of things from our short stay in Manila. Unpacking, on my terms is: sorting, fixing and putting of new clothes to their proper places. This means I had to make room for the newer clothes, remove the old ones and hand them down to the newest bubs in town :)
While doing all of these and ironing our clothes, I realized: my kids just have so MUCH clothes already! I mean at ages 3 and 1, they already have their own cabinets plus 1 tallboy which they share. They even have enough supply of clothes until they turn 6 (for Liam) and 3 (for Sam), for all seasons, at that! But wait, we didn't buy all of it, okay? Most of it, yes. But there is a handful of hand-me-downs and gifts as well :) There is just too much clothes! I can choose not to buy them new clothes in the next 2-3 years! I am running out of cabinets! Getting a new one is not part of my solution.
And boy are they lucky! I remember that I had my first pair of jeans when I was already in high school and it was a hand-me-down. The first pair of jeans that I really owned was California Paddocks which I earned after landing at the Top 3 of my class. And my kids? Well, almost all their clothes are branded already. Guess, Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, Oshkosh, Old Navy, and even Lascoste! I had my first Lacoste polo shirt when I was already working! Yeah, no one to blame but me :( At this age they are not aware of the value of the clothes they are wearing, we are not actually telling them, because they might ask for it all the time and we won't be able to sustain it hehehehe. And realizing that Liam will only get to wear these only on occasions and weekends once he starts going to the big school (because he has to wear a uniform, right?), is nakakapanghinayang.
So this weird idea came into my mind while I was ironing our clothes. The next time I am tempted to buy them new clothes I would still get the money but I'd put the money some place else. We plan to open an account for the two of them by next week and so that is one place where I can put the money OR I can put it on our travel fund, so it will be easier for the family's plan to travel to materialize ;) OR we can use the money to help out others :)
So there, this is my newest project and hopefully hubby will be happy with it :)
