Sharing Clothes

My girls are 2 years old and have shared all clothes since they were born (shoes, shirts, bathing suits, everything). We are now entering the potty training stage and I am questioning the sharing of underwear...It would seem that I would just continue to share everything, but I would not want to share my underwear with anyone, so why would I make them share underwear. I just want to know what others do so I can be somewhat prepared (one girl has purple underwear and one has pink, or I label them, ugh..). Thank you!

 

Mine share. Its all in a pile in one of their drawers and they pick out whichever they want to wear. Even their 'special undies' that Santa brought them (Fancy Nancy for Ana, Kai Lan for Meara) get shared or traded.

 

My twins share all clothes, undies included. My 14 and 12 yr old boys share boxers unknown to them! They wear plaid boxers in the same size so how am I supposed to know who's are who's! So I just divide and put them in their drawers lol!!!

 

Same here my older boys share boxers and the little guys also share. I don't think it really matters at all until they are older. They get cleaned in between usage.

 

I'm glad the OP asked that question. My girls have always shared ALL clothing. We do mark their shoes though, because one of my girls is harder on shoes than the other and I have always thought that having their own shoes was important. But, I had not even thought far enough ahead about underwear. Now I know that I will let them share those too for as long as it's practical and makes sense for us.

I don't know about anyone else, but people ask me all the time about whether the girls share clothes or not. I always feel like it's such a weird question to ask. Maybe it's just curiousity about twin life. Anyway, when I tell them that they do some people seem put off by it. I figure if the clothes are clean it doesn't matter which one wears them especially since my girls don't care one bit.

Since they were born we've put Bailey in purple and Marley in pink to help us remember who is who. We don't need to now obviously, but both girls have definitely started claiming "their" color. I don't want Bailey to think she can only wear or have purple things or Marley to think the same about pink so I have recently been mixing it up. Some people have been confused but either will pipe right up and say, "I not Marley! I Bailey!" or vice versa. LOL.

 

Mine share; however, we do have a few things they have claimed as their own.

 

While I get your adversion to it--I think you would find making them NOT share underwear more trouble than it is worth. Be happy if they are putting clean undies on everyday at this point. When they are older they can and will want to have their own underwear (and other clothes) just go with the flow for now.

 

well one would think with b/g twins I wouldn't have this issue... but just today I didn't have an extra pair for my ds... and lo and behold he wore the purple pair of sisters! haha! though my dd wasn't the happiest! haha!

 

I totally understand the shoe thing because of different walking patterns. I was an only child and used to mark each socks with different labels so that each pair was worn equally, and I if I had a roomate borrow a bathing suit I would never wear it again! So, that is why I wondered. The last thing I want for my girls is to be as picky and ocd as I was! (I have gone to the opposite side of the spectrum and now never match my socks!)

 

My kids are 5.5 and they still share their underwear, mostly. (There are a few pairs that are too small for Amy and a few that are too big for Sarah.) Even the special Christmas ones, just like Leighann said.

So true. :laughing:

 

The boys share everything, including underwear and some shoes. The shoe sharing is not working out so well. Mason stretches both pair out. How do you all mark them? I tried that when they were younger and everything wore or washed off.

 

Mine are almost 9. The only things they don't share are shoes and pants (they are different sizes in both). They did share pants when they could wear the same size.

As for shoes, when they wore similar sizes, we would just have them get different styles. Once they were bigger and could read, they would read the size in the shoe if they weren't sure. If you do need to mark them, try marking on the outside of the shoe on the foamy part with a sharpie. Or you you use a sharpie on the tongue of the shoe.

 

For shoes we either got a style that came in two colors, like white body, pink trim; pink body, white trim. Or if they got the same (less fighting that way) we would use a permanent marker to put a B and a G on various parts of the sole and usually on the heal, where the sole curves up the back. They learned to itentify B and G very quickly (under 3 years old) and it also serves us now to tell who is who in old photos!

 

Mine still share. I wash all underclothes in hot/hot water and figure they are good and clean. I honestly have never given it a thought. Sure, as an adult I wouldn't want to share with anyone, but as a kid I never thought about stuff like that. It's too hard to keep that sort of stuff separate when all other clothes is shared.

 

Mine don't share clothes because one is a size bigger than the other. But they've been sharing cloth diapers since they were infants, so I have no problem with them sharing underwear.

 

Love it! Haha! My daughter would be less than pleased if one of her brothers decided to wear a pair of her undies. My boys share undies!

 

My older girls have always shared underwear. They are 8 now and still sharing. I don't think it's any big deal, they will let you know if/when a time comes that they don't want to share.

 

Mine have not shared for a while but... at that age I thought same as you, so put initials in their underwear, but it was so much hassle checking whose was whose etc.. then we got different underwear but they both wanted each others anyways, so ended up just communal pile I figure they are washed and if the kids don't care I won't go to the trouble

 

I am the odd man out here I guess. They share almost everything. But not shoes and not underwear. For shoes when they were the same size/same type we marked them. And for underwear their first dozen pairs or so they chose different ones (one picked Toy Story the other picked Cars) so it worked out really well. But now they both want cars and we were lucky enough to find two different varieties and they know whose is whose. Luckily since they were different brands it is easy for us to tell, too if there is ever a question (there is one Doc pair that looks pretty similiar and is the only one we have really ever had any issues over).

Since all the underwear goes into their own drawers unfolded for them to pick out of when it is laundry time I dump them in a pile in their chair in their room and let them sort them into their own drawers. Keeps them occupied, and keeps it simple for me, too.

 

My older boys are 16mths apart and have worn the same size since they were about 2 and 3yrs of age....they share everything.....

 

Mine share everything except shoes.