Do you keep old school books?

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A few years ago my Mum presented me with a box of all my school books that she had kept for over 30 years. Now that we're moving I want to declutter and this is a box of stuff that never gets looked at and probably never will. Would you throw them out?

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Assuming you mean books you wrote in not exercise books. Don't throw them out if there's the slightest chance you'll regret it. Unless they're taking up a crazy amount of space?

I have a couple of mine that we found when we emptied my Dad’s house along with all my school reports & a few of his. I normally pick one or two for each dc to keep each year, normally if it has a picture or them with their class mates in it. We’ve 5 dc so I can’t keep them all. With their art work, again I keep the really special ones & then photograph the rest (& after a week on the fridge they go in to recycling)

100% I'd throw them out. I wouldn't give it a second thought. If I was feeling very sentimental I might keep a creative writing copy or nature copy but no way would I keep the whole lot

I did..till I was about 50 and was clearing out a cupboard
Sat down to read my school reports
Dowser could do better
Dowser could do to pay more attention etc
They gave me the rage.
I was working my little socks off. My dad was educated to age 13 , when scarlet fever meant he had to go to a special school
He never got back to a normal school
Mum went to grammar school but left aged 15 to go to a typing school.
I literally had no one to help me with French, science, Latin, maths , biology..you name it

I came away from school thinking I was average.
When I looked at the marks on my reports...they were all above average
I was already onto a winner being one of six girls in my school to pass the 11 plus and go to high school
I came away with a good clutch of above average grades in my exams at gce and a level.
Those books went in the bin.

I’d keep the English ones because of the stories, poems, that are probably in there. Maybe history or geography if there are any special
projects in there or your own illustrations but not if they’re mainly copied down or researched facts.
Definitely not maths, as that’s just going to be a load of sums with ticks or crosses by them!

My god I don’t even keep my own dc’s stuff now! Well, I have a scrapbook for each of them but the exercise books they bring home anymore I look through and then bin. Why would I want to see pages of their number lines or science experiments?!
Maybe have a nose through for nostalgias sake but I’d get rid. Can’t stand boxes of anything without purpose cluttering up anywhere (even the loft, I just don’t see the point).

I'm so PFB about this. DS is 10 and I've kept all his books! A great pile of them is given to parents at the end of term and I can't bear to bin them. So they're stacked up in the loft. What for?! He'll never look at them and neither will I. I'm not remotely sentimental either!