On Sunday I went through all the snowpants from the storage closet in anticipation of the snow yesterday. I had the girls try on the entire stockpile of snow pants (10 pairs total), all of varying sizes I’ve picked up from second-hand or end-of-season clearance sales over the years.
Each of the girls found two pairs of snowpants that fit them and I was psyched (no last minute runs to the store on Sunday for me ;-). The bummer was that all those snow pants were dark. Actually 3 of the 4 are black, which also look just like Fino’s snowpants.
I thought that everyone having similar looking snowpants was going to be a problem this year. So the girls picked out some ribbon and tied it on to their stuff so we could identify them hanging on the rack.
This may or may not help keep us organized this winter but I thought it was worth a shot. But I ran short of ideas on how to find matching gloves and mittens in the big box we have.
Any suggestions?
Kidtracks 
My wife developed a String Rack for hanging gloves, hats, mittens, coats, snow pants, etc. There is a photo at:http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/2006/01/how-to-make-hanging-string-rack.htmlWe have one of these in the center room of our old farm house near the wood furnace grate and another by the south door. In our new tiny cottage we\’ll do this again – it works very well.
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