Hi guys, so today I wanted to do a video on labeling my son's school uniform. I think
that sounds really, really square of me and really like I am a proper sad old mum. But
I know that I would watch this video because that's the kind of geek I am. So I'm hoping
there's a few other geeks out there as well. Sorry about the lighting. It is like 9:00
at night and I thought I could get away with it, but I don't know if I can.
But anyway, I'll make this a quick one. So my little boy is starting reception in September
and I'm feeling very emotional about it. But anyway, I've sorted out all of his uniform
and obviously I've got to label it because it costs a freaking fortune. So I'm going
to show you what I've got. They're all off of a website called Easy2Name, I'll put the
link down below. It's literally the top thing in Google, so that's just what I ordered.
The first thing that I got was like quite a basic thing that everyone probably had when
they were children as well, it is the iron on name strips. So they just come in strips
and I've cut them up and you can obviously iron them onto the clothing. With these ones,
in some of the more expensive items of clothes, like the blazer and things like that, I have
also stitched round just for extra security. These are the kind of labels that I've been
using for ages in his nursery clothes and preschool clothes already.
I've got a few of these credit card things that show their name. They're perfect for
like their gym bag and things like that and I also see a lot of children will have that,
but then also have a big key chain of like a minion or you know some sort of stuffed
animal key chain, so that they can easily identify their bag. I really like that. You
could choose from different little icons. I just chose footballs, but for girls there
was like flowers and princesses and all kinds of different things.
Also got something that I'm very excited about and I sound like a real geek now. Got a stamp
with his name on it and it's basically a fabric stamp, so it will stamp his name onto any
item of clothing that I want it to or onto anything. I've used it to stamp his name onto
his lunch box as well. You can use it on paper, you can use it on labels, you can use it on
fabric you use on anything. It's completely washable, so once you stamp something, the
ink is going to stay on it. From my little tests of what I've done so
far, I've stamped onto papers and labels very easily, more easily than it does to fabric.
But if you had an item of clothing that you wanted to stamp on the fabric, you could,
as long as you stand two or three times. This is great because it's so quick for us moms,
it's just like stamp, done. I'm literally going stamp crazy around the house.
Also, if someone did pick up the wrong item of clothing or if someone wanted the wrong
item of clothing, I'm not saying that's going to happen at his school at this age, but you
could easily cut out a tag or un-sew a tag, couldn't you? But if this stamp was stamped
right onto the fabric, it'll be really hard to say that, that was your item of clothing.
So I don't know, I just liked it. I'm even going to stamp his shoes. I'm just going to
go stamp crazy. And labels for his Tupperware and lunchbox
and things like that. You can get these, but my son is also allergic to peanuts, so I got
the allergic to peanuts ones. I've got the no nuts ones, yeah. So it's like, "Fraser
Norris. I am allergic to peanuts." It's also dishwasher safe. You don't have to worry about
these coming off in the dishwasher. So I just thought that they were really handy as well.
I hope you'd like some of these ideas and it wasn't completely boring. There are so
many labels that you can get nowadays. It's crazy, you can get special shoe ones. You
can get special sock ones, you can get all kinds of different... Like just ones that
stick on like sticky tape. They looked really good, but then I decided to get the stamp
over those, but yeah. Anyway, I hope you like this video and I will see you very soon. Bye.
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