Due to the short timeline we made for ourselves to be in the camper we are having to become professional multitaskers. The renovations take up much of our spare time but when we find a few extra minutes we use it to downsize our belongings. Clothing has been the elephant in the house since we decided to embark on our journey. We just have so much of it! There was a point in time where our family really relied on hand-me-downs to dress the kids. After a while the donations just kept coming and it felt wrong to say no to perfectly good clothes when people were trying to be kind. So we'd take on more and more until it literally filled a whole room in our house.
It was time to break the cycle. I have been looking into capsule wardrobes for myself and figured it would be a great way to thin out the kids clothes as well. So each of the 3 kids took turns picking their best and favorite clothes keeping in mind that it's best to have things that all work together and can be worn in multiple ways. Some tears were shed. Caydance, my oldest, is quite the fashionista and is a highly emotional soul. She can remember something great she did in every single scrap of clothing she had. But we talked through it and she ultimately agreed that fewer clothes would make life better for everyone and the planet.
A few hours later we had 8 big garbage bags to donate to local charities (plus 3 other bags we had already filled). Each kid got their full wardrobe down to the size of 1 standard laundry basket. I think Richard is already relieved with the hundreds fewer pounds of laundry he will have to do. Laundry and limited wardrobes will sure be an adventure!
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