When we were growing up, my mother actually sewed our identifying initials on certain underwear so that we could identify our own clean underwear. Made it easier for whichever child had the chore at any time to sort and fold a pile of just-cleaned/air-dried laundry of everyone's clothing.

admittedly outside of this childhood memory, monogramming doesn't sound like a practice in families that I know at all. Actually prior to marriage, a sister had the same first, middle and of course last initial as mine.
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