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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re: kids school work. How much of it do we save? My DC is 12 and I have artwork and school work starting from Pre-K in 3 cardboard boxes now. Do you let them pick a few and toss the rest?[/quote]

PP and I just moved an entire box of my schoolwork, art projects, awards, notes. For context: I’m 54 and began school in 1975! I am now the mom of 3DC-all college age+ and also have boxes of  THEIR memorabilia. I’m drowning. [/quote]

My mom kept a ton (I'm 60).  Looking through her HS stuff, I realized that almost none of her or my stuff would mean anything to my kid after I'm gone. So I went through and tossed almost all of it.  I kept just a handful of very cute or specific things (wedding announcements, etc) and put it and the few pieces of memorabilia I kept in labeled file folders. I have one small archive box (like the National Archive uses) of records and memorabilia and one small archive box of family letters.

Over the years, I had put my kid's art in binders, but I still have too much and need to thin it out.  Many people now suggest taking pictures and tossing them, but I may be too old school to do that with everything. I do have a nice leather bound scrap book where I keep things like the most special notes that DC wrote to me, along with graduation announcements, etc. It's a relatively small amount of stuff -- DC is grown, and there's just one book.  TBH, I could probably toss the rest of the binders and I might soon. These days I make a photo book for each year, and if I had a small child still, I'd probably take pictures of some of the art from each year and include it in the book.

I also inherited boxes and boxes of my Grandfather's files (he died in the early 70's).  I could see why they hadn't been tossed because they had letters to and from many famous figures (RFK, LBJ, Sam Rayburn, etc), invitations to JFK & LBJ's inaugurals, etc all filed alphabetically with things like receipts for oil changes. I went through those and kept all the interesting things and put them in a binder. I actually enjoy looking at it from time to time.

TL/DR: If you keep too much, it's a waste because it will just stay hidden away in boxes and no one will ever look at it until you die and your kids throw it away.  Pull out the most special things and put them into a scrap book or binder (or maybe take a picture and make a book) and toss the rest. [/quote]

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