DC's school books

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Rocksie · 24/08/2012 14:01

We are having a quiet day today so thought it would be a good opportunity to tidy and declutter as I go.

I have a decision to make with the DC's school books that I have previously kept; do I keep them or do I throw them? I feel kind of mean throwing them but on the other hand is it unnecessary hoarding?

What have you all done? If you have thrown them out have you regretted it?

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GrendelsMum · 24/08/2012 14:57

Throw them away now! now!

If not, your poor DC will be handed a pile of crappy school books in twenty years time when you move house, and they will look at them with hopeless bafflement and wonder why you bothered to keep them.

notso · 24/08/2012 15:14

Keep one or two and chuck the rest.
DMIL handed DH ALL of his on his 30th birthday, it was funny to read his news book from year one but not to read his GCSE maths book!

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Rocksie · 24/08/2012 16:12

Oh good, glad to hear that I should throw them away. notso did your DH's birthday coincide with your DMIL having a major declutter :)

I think I'll keep the odd one from their school years with the very imaginative stories the've written, like how mummy loves cooking and cleaning!

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JsOtherHalf · 24/08/2012 22:35

You could scan some of the pages/take photos with a smart phone?

betterwhenthesunshines · 25/08/2012 19:06

I go through them each year (usually the following September) and tear out the best pages. Then you can make a sort of binder for them. Make sure you mark the date.

It's also useful to hand on to them for a bit longer if you have a younger child. I find it's easy to think "oh, younger child is waaay behind where older child was at this stage" so it's useful to have a godd stash you can go look at. Memories are often deceptive!

IAmRubyLennox · 26/08/2012 07:36

I am a TA.

Trust me, we send them home every year so that we don't have the problem of throwing away 30 x 6 or 7 exercise books

(I don't keep the books for my own 3 DC, barring perhaps occasionally cutting out a page from the 'news' book that strikes me as particularly hilarious charming.)

carrotsandcelery · 27/08/2012 12:35

I would keep any journals or daily news books and I would keep their imaginative writing. The rest are very very boring indeed to look back through in the future.

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