Yesterday I made a decision to pull out all of my old recipe magazines, rip out all of the recipes I wanted, glue them to A4 paper and put in a binder. Well that was my intention anyway, of course I had begun this exercise a while back, but wasn't happy with the books I had glued the recipes into, so of course I had to take out all of those as well.
These are organising jobs that just seem to get out of hand for me, I mean I've been meaning to do something about the school books for years, Dan is in year 9 at school and I'm only now sorting through his kindy stuff to see what to keep and what to throw. I have purchased a heap of plastic sleeve binders that I am putting some of the school work into for each year and then tossing the rest of the books into the recycling.
I find it very hard to toss out memories but I simply can not keep everything.
I have also kept schoolwork for my girls but am one step ahead of you. I am quite ruthless and only keep good essays, tests, writing, pictures, projects, etc and I use a large envelope for each child and year. Into this goes newsletters if child was mentioned/photographed, school sports ribbons, school photos and reports etc. These envelopes are all together in a large plastic stacker box out in the shed. I have one girl left in Yr12 so I am down to my last envelope. Maybe it's time to open 1995 Kirby Reception/Yr 1 for a blast from the past...
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It can be an overwhelming job. I have saved the best of each year as well and tossed the rest. Have fun!!
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