Have you kept your DC school books from primary?

[holipolly]

I'm thinking about getting rid of them

What has everyone else done ?

DC are still at home so no option to donate to their houses!

No, I get rid of them all. My parents occasionally ‘gift’ me random things from my school years and I couldn’t care less. Plus I don’t have room to store them all. I do save their favourite artwork/handmade cards though.

All gone, the same with all secondary school stuff. We kept some of the nicer art/craft items and some notes from her teachers but not the normal books.

I think DD kept one textbook from A levels as it matches a module in her university study and it was helpful strangely enough but she is now binning that one as well.

Honestly, I got rid of my school books when the year was over.

All gone. Chuck them in a river or something.

Kept a few pages of particularly memorable bits of work but otherwise all gone. I made a little scrapbook each year for each child of pieces of art, certificates, programmes from school plays, photos sent home. They have never been looked at once I don't think (DCs are young adults now. When I get time I am going to rationalise those to one scrapbook each.

I have a folder where I keep some bits. Get rid of the actual books

Yes
I’ve got my boys school books
Not every single one but a selection from each year

I also have a scrap book of stuff they did at home and certificates etc. The boys do treasure them ( they are in their 20s )

I've also got all of mine including my exam artwork
It’s amazing looking back on the books we used in the early 70s, the way we learnt and the stuff I wrote about

Please don’t do this.
Just put them in the recycling bin

What a shame it is reading this thread. My parents kept everything I ever made or did and I’m so grateful.

I love spending time flicking through them and I’m doing the same thing for my girls.

Oh come on the poster was clearly being flippant and not giving serious advice. 🙄

OP all mine go in the bin as soon as they get sent home. The recycle bin, before anyone else purposely takes it the wrong way.

Thankfully my parents did not keep any of mine, I have found the odd thing at their house but I'm really not interested and it would have just been more clutter for us, as happened with all our old toys they kept for DGC that I felt bad about getting rid of but my DCs didn't really want.