DS is 7 and we will shortly (fingers crossed) be downsizing our house. In preparation for this, I have started sorting out cupboards and the like.
The problem is that DS is very much a hoarder whereas I am very much into decluttering.
So from nursery to now, if DS has ever so much as put crayon to paper to draw a tiny squiggle, said squiggle has been sent home with him at the end of the day, not to mention all the pictures he has drawn at home. Some of them are displayed on the wall / fridge, however most have been gathering dust in a pile, together with the more recent addition of work books from school.
So today I have been ruthless. I have been through the pile and thrown out about 70% of my PFB's work - well at least recycled it at the local tip.
When I told my best friend what I had been up to, se was at what I had done, telling me that I would regret it, that DS may one day have wanted to look through it all and remember his childhood.
I kept a lot of his best pictures but AIBU to have done a hatchet job on the rest? TBH it was begining to be a fire hazzard and there are only so many pages of red smudges I can look at, they all look the same. There are hopefully years more of DS's work to come, but best friend says I will never be able to replace the work he did as a baby