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I am slowly working on selling my unused or extra homeschool books. That is helping cut down the clutter. But I'm not sure what to keep after each year, with regards to the children's finished work. I'm thinking about having each of them choose a few samples of the year to keep.

I know I was always excited to see my schoolwork from when I was little, so I thought maybe my children would be the same. Right now I keep the papers in storage tubs in the garage. Each year I end up adding one. With five children however...we're getting a little physically and emotionally cluttered.

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This fabulous GON reader 'Ask Maria' question was submitted by:

Kathrine Keller

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Maria Gracia responds:

Hi Kathrine,

Thanks so much for your note. Yes, you definitely have the right idea. There's no way you can keep all of your kids schoolwork, and they're not going to want to plow through boxes of it when they're grownups. But having a few keepsake papers from each year for each child is worth keeping. They may love to have these, and if they don't, they can trash them when they're adults.

What I've done for my daughter is I have a 'report cover' for each year. This particular one on Amazon has an 85 sheet capacity...although I don't try to stuff that many papers into it: https://amzn.to/2Uw6JGm

I add about 25 sheet protectors...and that's my daughter's school memories for ONE year. I simply slide the papers I want to keep into the sheet protectors. Since these have a clear cover, the very first page you see is her Name, School, Grade and School Year...which I print up on the computer.

In it, I put the most meaningful paperwork from that year, like essays she wrote, a math paper that included a special note from one of her teachers, an award certificate she received that year, a program from the school play she was in, and the like.

I then save these for her, year after year, in one larger box.

If you have one storage tub per child, that's probably a good rule of thumb. This way, you can send each child off later when they leave the nest, with one memory box.

Hope this helps!

Maria

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