What do you do with your child's birthday cards and school work?

[KrayKray00]

Do you hold onto everything?

With my first I kept all the congratulation cards, birthday cards, Christmas cards all his nursery and school work and every time I have a clear out they go up in the loft never to be seen again...

Child no.2 I am l less of a hoarder, only keep cards off immediate family and throw the rest away.

It is coming to the end of term and my children come home with bags filled with school work, paintings, spellings and I just don't know where to put them or what to do with them, will they ever look at them again, really?

I feel unreasonable to throw it away and I do keep my favourite ones or the ones they have worked the hardest on but it's not like they are ever going to look through them again, it is the same with all my uni work and notes, I don't really need them now I've graduated surely?

What do you do?

DS was allowed to keep three pieces of work. Any really good art work was displayed if he wanted it, in his room.

Cards, I'm not so sure about. There are probably 15 different piles of birthday cards in cupboards or desks. Or possibly I've dumped some.

I keep cards from my parents, grandparents etc as it's nice for them to have when they are much older. Other cards I cut out the bits I can and use them for craft sticking and glueing. As for the school stuff it's getting ridiculous! I keep bits that I know my children are proud of and show me when I collect them and also if they have other children's names etc on. I'm still friends with people I went to school with so I liked looking at the pictures I drew of us together when I was 6- especially ones with my now husband! You've just got to be selective, but I loved that my mum kept some stuff from school when I reached adulthood.

I file the majority under B (for bin). They each have a folder where we put special bits or things they are really proud of.
Ultimately what are you going to do with all once they are older?

He has an A4 ring binder that he is supposed to store his work in. I filled it with poly wallets and he could put school work that he picked in it.

I've no idea if it has actually worked but suspect after I stopped doing it, he just stuffed things in drawers.

Like I do to be fair.

I have a big box in a cupboard that is stuffed full of schoolwork and paintings/drawings. I can't seem to bear the thought of throwing them out!

I keep special cards only, the best of their artwork (still a huge quantity) and school books that have writing and drawing in but not maths ☺️ as I think they would like to look at them when they are older. They already love to look at stuff they did in Reception and nursery. We have big boxes in the loft for each child. If they want to chuck them when they are older that's fine.

Keep the odd sample. Bin the rest. If there are bags and bags of stuff, you will never ever go actually look through it or be able to find anything you want to look at, so what is the point?

Throw them all away. When they're older with kids they won't think about their old birthday cards and what not. I certainly don't. We do take pictures of art work though, that are never seen again

Everything gets chucked. We aren't ones for keeping stuff for sentimental reasons. My mum was horrified that we threw away our wedding cards as well!

My school stuff was mostly all kept in my parents' shed. I'm early 20s now and have just sorted through it myself. I like that they left it for me to choose what to throw or keep. I loved reading through my primary school literacy books! Oh, the nostalgia.

I've kept all cards so far for DD, but she hadn't started school yet! I doubt I'll have room for as much stuff as was kept back for me, so I'll probably save some of her 'first" stuff, like first piece of art/handwriting/maths etc, then just save the stuff she is proud of after that... Unless anything catches my eye, of course.