toss your child's school work?

[Anonymous]

I have a portfolio bag where I keep them. I’d say 5% I keep (mostly the funny ones), and the rest I toss.

[Anonymous]

We keep things like stories they wrote or artwork they want to hang in their room. We recycle things like math worksheets. We have a collection from each school year labeled & in their closet. My kids already enjoy looking back at it.

[Anonymous]

I got an artwork accordion folder with enough slots to last several years. I keep the best stuff and designate one slot per grade.

[Anonymous]

I keep the cute things or the milestone things. I toss the random scribble that comes home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take photos of the best pieces and toss them. Your kids will never be as sentimental about this stuff as their parents.

Not true at all. I love having the things that my parents saved. Speak for yourself but don’t generalize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take photos of the best pieces and toss them. Your kids will never be as sentimental about this stuff as their parents.

Not true at all. I love having the things that my parents saved. Speak for yourself but don’t generalize.

I have nothing from my school years except a yearbook from middle school (though even that may have gotten lost in a move at some point) and don't care.

[Anonymous]

You should keep a box with all schoolwork for each year, at least through ES, then tell your kids as adults they need to come clean out the basement. When they are wondering what you are talking about, present them with the 6+ boxes. Just don't be angry if they take them straight to the recycling/trash bins....

That's what my mom did anyway.

[Anonymous]

I don't know how much he enjoyed it, but it was a lot of fun to see my father-in-law's school work from the 1950s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My MIL saved all my DH's kids stuff, and then gave it to me when we married. What am I supposed to do with this stuff? I tossed it all because it was so much.

Lol this is hilarious. I can’t imagine giving my future SIL/DIL my kid’s school projects

[Anonymous]

A friend of mine took pictures of the art like a previous poster mentioned and then she made a Shutterfly book for each of her sons. Always loved that idea. I still have a tinfoil ball glued to poster board that says “flower” that my kid made when they were 2.