Did you keep any of your dc uniform when they left school?

[pumpkinkors]

Unsure if to keep some of dc uniform as a keepsake or if I’m being wayyyy overinvested that they’ve now left the school... fwiw it’s a private school with hats blazer etc and it’s primary they’ve left

I still have both my signed shirts from primary and secondary

Only the shirts that had been signed by their friends.

Just the signed shirts.

Theres a couple of signed polo shirts in a cupboard somewhere. I keep meaning to give them to DS' when I see them to get rid if them.

Yes, prefect tie, awards badges etc

Had blazer, shirt, sports kit made into a bear (google blazer bear) which is a lovely keepsake

If you really want too keep it and can afford it why dont you look in to having the jumper or the tie made in to a memory bear?

Signed shirts - the kids kept their own.

Everything else, given to local charity shop.

Why would you keep it?

@VanCleefArpels oooo I love that idea!

Theres acouple of lovely bear makers on jnstagram

Signed shirt and tie. Rest went to second hand uniform shop.

Not me op but i've seen this ladies work op something like this

www.instagram.com/p/Byzb9zfF7DZ/?igshid=dcrhgn3s6xf5

My two didn’t want to part with their blazers and DD wanted to keep her kilt. She wants to keep it for her DD. She wore it till she was 18, her DD is 1. We can’t do anything with DS’s blazer as he had colours embroidered on them.

DM kept a couple of of our secondary school jumpers. The uniform is still the same so I might end up washing them and putting DS in them when he's older!

I will one day when I remember get my DSs prep school caps and ties put in box frames for them.

DS 1s cap is immaculate but DS2s is knackered! Kind of correlates to their personalities!!

Blazer and tie

I kept ds1's first school jumper and will probably keep youngest one's last school jumper too. I've also kept ds1's school council tie from primary, both signed shirts and ds2's leavers hoodie.

My mum kept my hat badge from my senior school.

The hat wasn’t fit to keep. I hated the wretched thing and had wrecked it on the last day.

I have very fond memories of my sixth form, a private school which changed pretty much all the outcomes of my life. My mother kept nothing but I wish I still had my school scarf and my hat (which I wore with pride! Aged 18! In 1989!) I do still have my signed shirt which I reminisce over now and then.

I still have my Brownies and Guides badges, as do many of my friends of similar vintage. Happy days, simpler times.