Kids want to get rid of their old school.

[Simon9343]

2 of my boys know i still have their school stuff from 5 years ago and they have asked me if they can have it to rip up and i keep saying "NO" but should i let them, i mean they do it with all their current school work, and i used to do the same when i was in school.

Suppose it depends. I keep some bits that I really love for sentimental reasons but I chuck a lot of it as I just don’t have the space and frankly won’t feel the need to travel through their geography books when I’m 60. Maybe let them with some of it and keep what you love. Although at a loss why they’d want to rip it up

I kept bits and bobs including report cards for 30 years...recently I asked my dd if she wanted her primary school reports etc (as she has a cute little 4 year old about to start school) and was met with a resounding NO....
I will ask the boys but I doubt they would be interested either.

Take photos of things that might be interesting sometime in the future like old report cards. Then chuck.

Ive just had this debate with my eldest. We have kept report cards and the odd thing he had written, he wrote a story about his dad being in hospital that made me cry, I kept that.

I let him burn all the rest in the back garden.

Please get rid. No adult wants their stuff from school!

It's their school stuff so let them have it if they want it. Keep anything sentimental and let them do what they want with the rest.

I keep my dcs reports, cards that they make and special bits of school work that they're especially proud of. The rest is theirs to do with as they wish, which usually means have it kicking round their room for a few months before chucking it.

I had a really rough time in high school and wanted to burn everything connected to it but my mum wanted to keep it. In the end she relented and I kept my reports and a couple of pieces of English work that I was proud of. The rest was burned along with the remains of my uniform that I'd used as a tug ripe with my dog.

Keep a few bits for the memories and then let them do whatever they want with all the rest.

Unless you live in a vast house with gloryholes galore