A month ago I spent an hour or two going through all of our winter hats, gloves, coats, scarves, and misc crap that had gotten thrown into them. I sorted everything into bins, and labeled them "hats", "gloves", and "buffs/scarves".
Two weeks after I did that, I noticed that someone had put gloves in the hats bin, and vice-versa. The next day I noticed that the buffs/scarves were in with the other two. I mentioned it to my wife, and she shrugged.
A week after that, my wife told me, "I said I wouldn't tell you, but the [#6yo] told me that she keeps switching the labels on the bins. To mess with you."
When I finally lose my marbles, I just want this story in the public record.
@mdione Yes, that was basically what we had before, except you had to search through EVERYTHING (hats, scarves, even sweatshirts) to find the matching glove.
@Andres4NY Another trick: have less of each? At home we're only 3, I only use gloves, and I keep them in my current jacket, so the two kids do no spend more than 15s finding the missing globe or their bonnet.
@mdione I keep a pair of gloves for each kid in my winter coat.. because I'll pick one of them up from school, and inevitably we'll have the following conversation: "My hands are cold" "put on your gloves" "i don't have them" "you went to school with them, did you check your backpack?" checks backpack "I can't find them" "okay, here, I have an extra pair in my pocket"
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