How to create a sustainable closet - for your children, while saving money!

If you are a parent, you might have experienced that clothes suddenly has a new meaning. The constant hunt for new clothes despite the fact that you just recently updated your child’s closet with their latest size. The constant washing, folding and effort trying to keep at least some kind of order. Not to mention the financial costs of buying new all the time.

The authors Johanna Leymann and Jennie Dahlén launched in 2016 the book Slow Fashion but realised when both of them became parents in 2017 that a sustainable closet differentiates between a child and an adult. While the adult should take into account that an item needs to last for 10 years in their closet, an item for a child needs to be worn among at least 10 children.

An obvious benefit of sharing clothes among children are the financial savings. Instead of buying new, to be given or to borrow from a friend or family member is for free. If you buy second hand instead of newly produced clothes you can also lower your costs in half! In the book Johanna and Jennie give recommendations such as making sure there is enough space for the big toe in a child’s shoe, consider the color though white easily looks dirty and avoid ziplocks since they easily break.

This and a lot more in the new book “Klä Barnen” now out in Swedish! For those of you who want your every day life, as a parent, to be easier, more environmentally friendly and good for your wallet.