Like things they made and work they did at school? If so, what do you do with it? My kids are going into kindergarten and the other in 1st and I already have so much stuff from last year. I feel bad for throwing anything out.
2007-08-02 09:01:00 · 26 answers · asked by Layla 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Grade-Schooler
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2007-08-02 09:01:53 · update #1
my daughter is 7 months & I plan on keeping everything she makes. I just wish my parents would have kept my stuff. Imagine how neat it would to be to look back at it 20 yrs later.
2007-08-02 09:04:59 · answer #1 · answered by myusernameisbetterthanyours 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I had, there would be no more room in my house!!! i bought a plastic container for each child. I put everything in there that was worth saving at the time. When the box got full, I always went through the items and kept my favorites especially writing samples. A couple years down the road, somethings just weren't that necessary!! I also have kept all the clay work. My youngest is now in middle school and oldest two have graduated. I can go back through and see how they have grown. I am truly glad I kept the items.
2007-08-02 09:08:00 · answer #2 · answered by KAM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know your pain, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to keep everything. I take photos of the kids with their really good creations for the photo albums. Then I hang whatever it is up on the wall. By the end of the school year, their bedroom walls are covered, and I take a picture of them with all their creations and put it in a thank-you note to the teacher. I pick a couple of my favorites to put in a box for memories. After that, we choose some to send to this grandma, that grandma, great-grandma, various other friends or relatives and mail them off. I know these relatives will pitch the items eventually, but it's easier than me doing it. Anything we have left is just thrown away, but we have lots of photos and it all feels good.
I had to keep worksheets from the second-grade teacher because she said to, but I throw all those away as soon as I can, unless it's something I know my child struggled with -- like getting an A on a spelling test after studying really hard. That stuff goes on the fridge until the next great accomplishment, when we switch it out.
2007-08-02 10:11:19 · answer #3 · answered by sparki777 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no reasonable way for you to keep 13 years worth of worksheets, quizes, tests and vocabulary type things. I keep anything that my kids write (essays, storys etc) all art work, awards and some tests and examples of work. I have 5 kids all in school from 2nd to 12th grade. Not even remotely possible to keep everything they do and no reason to. The worksheets and everyday stuff is garbage. BUT what I do is not look at the papers and toss them. I feel that would be disrespectful to my children. We have a "schoolwork box" its a decorated box all the schoolwork goes into only AFTER they show it to me. I also have 3 ring notebooks with those clear sleeves that hold school work size papers and awards and I keep most of the "keep" stuff in them so they can be looked at easily.
2007-08-02 12:38:59 · answer #4 · answered by sharonsmineonly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to keep everything, but you eventually run out of room, and fast. So what I do now (read it somewhere before, but don't remember where) I let them put everything they love or are proud of, on the icebox... when the icebox is covered, we take a picture of it and then they can pick one favorite to go into an album... the other work, they can choose to give to a grandparent, or mail off to family that live out of state (which they love, because they feel big when they mail a letter) or we simply throw it out... but you will always have the picture! Less room and all the memories!
2007-08-02 09:09:36 · answer #5 · answered by Angel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did.. I had those little letter size plastic tubs you can get at the $ store... They hold enough work that they do throughout the year.. I thought I was going to keep everything... but afterwards (3 years) I decided to break it down and keep only the stuff that had real value to me.. Like a gift he made at school.. or a really distinctive arts and craft.. report card... stuff like that.. YOu get the meaning of it.. save the best stuff.. and have memories to look back on without a ton of clutter..
2007-08-02 11:40:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I keep things of importance, such as things they made or awards they recieved. I have a box for each year. It is just a small box like you get boots in from the store and for awards I have a folder for each year they received the awards in. I throw away things like math papers and spelling tests, but not before I look at them and I go over any problems they have missed with them. The decision really is up to you.
2007-08-06 05:30:31 · answer #7 · answered by jstahrsgal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son is going into first and i kept everything he did in kinder. I got a sterlite drawer, to hold most of it. Some of course is on the fridge. In his room on one side of the wall i have some of the art work framed and then at the bottom i have rope, and clothes pins where he can hang some of his favorites. I also used some of it as gifts, for christmas a decopaged (sp?) boxes with pictures of him and some of his work for the grandparents. They loved it you can also do like check book covers, or have it scanned on mugs, ect so you dont actually have to keep all the papers but you still have a pic of it.
2007-08-03 05:48:41 · answer #8 · answered by jmm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a fantastic question!!! I swear, I thought I was the ONLY person on the planet earth who couldn't let go of all the art work, school work, even school calendars, lol... I just can't IMAGINE throwing out his pictures of dragons, Christmas, our dog, etc... It's all just too terribly cute... He has a 16-year-old brother and I kept most of his stuff too, especially from the younger years and now I have them together, and the problem is the stuff is soooo similar, sometimes we have to really "inspect" the "masterpieces" to try to figure out whose it is, lol.... But it is sooo much fun looking through little pieces of "history" if you will... PRICELESS.....!!!!! :o)
2007-08-03 16:01:47 · answer #9 · answered by Mercedes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have all of my son's artwork pinned to the wall. At the end of the summer, I plan to take a picture of it with him standing next to it. I'll keep a few that are special and then I'll have the picture to remember the others as well. I'll be putting the picture of all his work in his scrapbook with the other pictures from his school year. The one or two pictures will take up less space and I'll have something to remember them all by. Hope this helps!
2007-08-02 09:06:12 · answer #10 · answered by missbecky75 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋