Clothing Dots take seconds to iron on, and literally melt into your fabric so you don’t feel them! And this is the best way to use them on socks!
The trick is to iron it into an area that will be easily visible once that garment is folded. You don’t want to defeat the purpose of this genius hack! So, for socks, we like ironing into the inside of the sock, close to the top of the band. This is the part that’s easily visible when socks are folded.
If you’re ironing Clothing Dots onto many pairs of socks at the same time we recommend folding them all inside out, lining them up, and ironing the Dots one by one using the enclosed parchment paper, then refolding. It’s well worth the investment of time–in just a few minutes you can avoid a year of mix-ups and missed buses!
For tights, we recommend the same. Adhere the dot to the inside of the elastic. Once folded, the colored dot is easily seen.
Are you concerned that you might find the Clothing Dots annoying on your skin? Not to worry. You won’t feel them at all. The iron-on Dots have an incredible technology that practically “melts” into the fabric. We had fun closing our eyes and trying to find the Dot using only our fingers. Not easy.
Keep this chart hanging in the laundry room or inside a closet.
You can also write things like: “¾ sleeve shell” and “long sleeve shell” if you are planning to use them to organize your own closet, assigning a different Dot color to each type of shell so they don’t need to be unfolded to check the style!
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Agreed this is a brilliant idea, but me and my girls have bene sewing in colored thread into our tights for years, works great! Each one has a different color thread…..
my 5 girls have been attaching safety pins with different color beads on them — when they take off their socks they pin them together— now you don’t need to “pair” socks after doing the laundry.
it worked great for years
we’ve been using sock locks! Works great too!
Can you use sticky dots for socks or must you use clothing dots that need to be ironed?
Will sticky stay stuck on the bottom of the sock? (So sorting socks is an easier task when it’s visible and not inside the sock)
Thank you!
You can use the sticky dots for everything but the clothing dots will last better on fabrics, no question about that. I hear your concern about folding socks, but its applied at the top of the sock, so all you really need to do is peek in to see the color.
Any recommendations for using this system if passing clothing down to another child the following year?
Here’s a great idea my sister thought of for this- you can order labels with your last name and circles below it (or the number 0) in the amount of children you have. Then you use a sharpie to color in one circle for your eldest, two for the next etc. When the item gets passed down you simply color in another circle corresponding to the next child . (So child number 3 always has the clothing with three dots, etc.)
You can remove the sticker or iron on by pulling it really well off and/or just place a new one on top.
There are two things you can do: 1-peel off the dot (easier with sticky dots than with iron on dots. Both not ideal), And our favorite way to do it: 2- simply iron on a dot over a dot. We tested this out and it irons over really easily.
Thank you for all your kind suggestions!!
BCP Dots are still our favorite method (not just because they’re our product ;), we have been testing them out for a while and we find them to work really well.
We absolutely love that there are so many creative ideas to managing this issue!
Rather than corresponding colors to names, you can correspond them to age – eg all socks age 3-4 are red, 4-5 are green etc (or write the number on a label, or even buy dark blue socks and write the number with black marker on the bottom. This way you don’t need to worry about handing down socks – you just look at what age they are and give them to the child who is now that age.