With school back in session that means school papers start coming home and you are not sure if you should keep it or to throw it away. I have a few helpful ideas to make your decision easier and to not to have a stack of papers all around your home.
Hopefully you took my idea about keeping your child's backpacks in a area with a place to store papers when they come home from school. You should have two separate areas. One for stuff to return to school the next day and papers to store and keep. Once you receive those keep papers or art work then place them in a pile for you to sort either at the end of the week or month.
Visit your local office store and buy folders and file box. Bring home and place folders in the box. Most of us like to capture the first day and the last day of each year if you are one of those then you can put those pictures on front of each year. If you are not then you can put school picture or just write the year. Another fun thing, is to have your child write his or her name or something they want, so each year they can see how they have improved.
Once you have gone through your pile and you have a keep and throw away pile. The throw away pile you can take your camera or cell phone and take a picture before you throw away. Once you have enough pictures you can store on a flash drive. This way you still can keep all of the papers and still have room for the really good ones.
I plan to do this for my son since he starts kindergarten in less then a week. Good luck this school year.
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