To keep....

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.......all my now adult sons school books.

He's 28 and I have all his books from infant to senior school and I just can't bear to throw them away! He doesn't want them but now I feel I've had them so long it's harder to throw!

Anyone else got a similar hoard!? AIBU keeping them?

If it makes you happy then no.

Let them go. They are your son's and he doesn't want them. Hoarding them will not make you feel better.

Keep them!

Could you go through them and pick out a couple of pages for each book/year? Then make a scrapbook. Less to keep but still sentimental reminder for you.

Ooo Martmite like that idea

I'm good at thinking up projects for others!! Bit of a procrastinator in real life though.

I kept creative writing ones or especially involved project work that she enjoyed. Books of sums etc just went in recycling because if I was unlucky enough to kick the bucket today, I reckon that’s what she would do with it!

Bin them. I am about to do a big loft clearout. I think it's time the baby congratulations cards went-eldest is 20 this year!

When I get around to it I’m going to go through my kids school books and take photos in an album on my phone (and also upload them onto pc.).

Not every page - just ones that stand out .. good drawings, or ones with nice comments from teachers.

i went through this on a smaller scale when my DCs started coming home with art work. at first i kept every single piece now I keep ones that have been on dialsplay, ones that are particularly unique or ones that have sentimental value (i.e. a picture of a member of the family) the rest I chuck. Could you do something similar and just keep a select few?

I have three adult ds’s.

If I kept all of their stuff it’s take up a ton of space so I binned most things. I’ve kept the Christmas angels they all made and they come out each year for the tree.

Whatever suits you

I read through my (19yo) schoolbooks and fave story books recently. Kept a couple that made me smile but binned most of them.

Throw them away. They'll get harder to chuck as they get older and will just take up space. My late mother's house is full of stuff like this. My school books and art stuff, my siblings' stuff, mum's stuff, dad's, grandparents'. Now I've got to go through and chuck it all. It's a burden quite frankly.

My parents have still got mine lol. And I am in my 40s!! So you're not alone x

My own dc threw theirs out. So do I age 18. Didn't want to look at school things after 7 years there!
(Ended up a TA at my old school though ).

My mother ripped the pages out of mine, and just kept the books with the blank pages, apart from a few. I discovered this when I was clearing the house after she died, and was looking forward to looking at them after so many years and deciding which ones to keep.

It still bothers me now. If you feel you will want to look at them again, keep them, or keep the ones that mean the most to you.

When my grandmother died we found that she’d kept one of my mum’s primary school jotters in her bedside drawer with an essay about a school trip she’d been on, and it made my mum really happy that her mum had kept it all those years.

Thanks for all your posts. I think I'm going to pick a few out and keep those