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,

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

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

Folders, with those see through pocket things.

and plastic storage boxes for the nig stuff.

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!

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

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.

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.

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]

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.