How to (Safely) Purge Your Child's Schoolwork

How to (Safely) Purge Your Child's Schoolwork

Ask anyone with young school-age children, and they're sure to agree that an awful lot of paperwork comes home from school. Unless you have a system for sorting and storing, it can quickly pile up -- or worse, cause battles between you and your child over what to keep and what to toss. Here are some easy solutions.Go Digital If you (or your child) can't bear to part with each and every piece, why not go digital? You can pick up an inexpensive scanner for under $150 (or borrow a friend's) and scan each image, to store a digital copy. That way, you won't have to keep all those papers, but you won't discard any memories. Make a Montage Once you've scanned all the images, you can create a photo montage to drop onto a CD-ROM or DVD as a keepsake for you and your child. Depending on what resolution you choose to scan your images at, you can fit a ton of images on a single disc. Maybe you prefer to burn one disc for each child for each school year. Or one "best of" disc for all the children for each year of schooling. There are many ways to organize your files once you go digital. Once you have a montage assembled, this would make a great slide show at a graduation party, birthday party, or other milestone celebration. Keep Only the Best A different alternative is to keep only the best artwork and most impressive schoolwork from each year. There are several ways to conduct this logistically - you could keep it all and pick out the 5 or 10 best at the end of the school year, or you can keep just a month's worth at a time, then purge all but the best one or two at month's end. You may even choose to get input from your child as to which represent the most special or memorable bits of artwork or accomplishments. Frame It! You may choose to display some of the best artwork from your children, either on a bulletin board, in frames on a single "gallery" wall, or hung with decorative accents from a metallic stylized clothesline or other type of structure. You can actually purchase magnetic paint (as well as chalkboard paint) that can be applied to a wall, cabinet or other structure, which allows you to use magnets to display artwork and other mementos. You can make it decorative and celebratory? With so many fun and easy ideas, there's no need to feel as though you are drowning in artwork and paperwork from your children's school age years. Pick a technique and you can begin to thin out those massive files of papers!

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