How do you store/keep dc sentimental stuff.

[darkandstormy]

You know old school books[dd just brought loads of yr3 stuff home]ds has loads of pre school pictures etc.Do you have a "memories" chest or what do you do? anyone got any good tips for keeping this stuff in a well ordered way.any tips please,

[CuppaTeaJanice]

I have a memory box for DS. I suspect it may be stuffed full well before he starts school though!!

[Poshwellies]

We use a plastic carrier bag and then put it in the loft.

[TotorosOcarina]

Folders, with those see through pocket things.

and plastic storage boxes for the nig stuff.

[jollyma]

One of those plastic A1 art portfolio's and a box for books. Must admit was thinking today about going through it and selecting the best to keep and quietly binning the rest, its really building up and i dont have space!

[HappyMummyOfOne]

Plastic boxes with lids in the loft, have one for baby/toddler items and one for each year of school.

[darkandstormy]

Sorry everyone mean't to have put this in the chat secttion, but thanks for the ideas I really need to get a comprhensive system going.

[TheNextMrsDepp]

Each of my three DCs has a "memory box" up in the loft, baby shoes, new baby cards, newspaper articles, very nice pieces of schoolwork etc. I also have my own (bursting at the seams with similar stuff).

One box per year?? I'd need a new loft.

[HecateQueenOfWitches]

I don't.

We've got pictures, video of birthdays and christmases, and I did start a box each when they were born - cord clip, birth notice in paper, lock of hair, etc.

But school books etc etc, nope. all gets admired and shoved in the bin.

I am very unsentimental about bits of paper. About stuff in general. Don't keep anything.

[heartless]

[Helokitty]

Certificates and achievements - my DDs have a nice folder each with plastics document holders that they just fill.

Otherwise, I have a plastic box on top of my wardrobe, and anything I want to keep gets shoved in there. When it is full, it gets transferred to their big (individual) plastic boxes in the attic.