The kids are cold!
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Welcome to another shopping roundup for the perpetually freezing! You’re a good parent, so you let your kid borrow your sweatshirt in the grocery store, but I’m here to help keep everyone warm: Today’s links are just for KIDS.
✵ Three things for cold children
1 - The two fleeces that end up costing a penny per wear: Patagonia and L.L. Bean. My three-year-old is currently sporting the 4T navy zip up Patagonia fleece I bought my oldest in 2017. And a few years back, each of my kids received L.L. Bean fleeces as family reunion swag, which led me to repurchasing in other colors when they outgrew them. These babies are 100% childhood proof and worth every cent.
2 - Every Sunday, my girls don “cute sweaters” for church (where, apparently, it’s doctrinally required to maintain an indoor temp of 65ºF year round). On occasion, they’ve evaded my strict church dress standards and attended in one of the aforementioned fleeces, but when I get my way, it’s a Hanna Andersson cardigan or this Boden number:
~ * BTW, all 94 sweaters and hoodies at Hanna Andersson are VERY on sale today ~
3 - Uggs. I know, I know — why are we buying a bougie shearling boot for a foot that will only grow a full size in a calendar year. However, Uggs are available secondhand and on sale all the time (my 10-year-old found a pristine pair at Children’s Orchard for $11.00), especially on eBay and Nordstrom Rack. My Always Cold kids wear them year round, including with shorts, because that’s their heritage.
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My kids are Never Cold, but this is still delightfully written and I enjoyed it a great deal. Plus one on finding Ll. Bean secondhand, too! Their zippers somehow never fail.