School started today at my house and in a few hours the backpack full of papers will be arriving. I think out of all of the organizing questions that I receive, the most common is about paperwork and school papers. There are a lot of options out there, but I will let you know what works in our house.
When my daughter comes home from school, she empties her backpack into my in-box. I have one small counter in my kitchen that I have as a designated area for my in-box my husbands. I don't have an actual box, just an area that we keep the paperwork on the counter. An in-box may work for you. I found that I wouldn't go through the in-box as frequently as I do when it is on my counter. We call it my "pile", but I really don't let it pile up because I don't allow enough room for the items to grow very far.
After I have gone through the paperwork, I put all items that were completed at school in my husbands in-box/pile. He likes to see everything that my daughter has done at school too (I know, I got a good one!). Once he has reviewed all of it, he puts it back into my in-box/pile.
I choose the items that I feel are the most important to my daughter, will have the most meaning, or have the best memories associated with them, and I put those into a folder in my utility cabinet (in my kitchen). The others go right into the recycling. My girls know that I do not keep all of their work, but they also know that I do keep enough of it for them to feel comfortable when they see things being thrown out.
I periodically go through the folder throughout the school year and continue to thin it out. At the end of the school year I do a finally review and then put it into my file cabinet in my craft area. These items are eventually compiled into a scrapbook for my girls.
1 comment:
Love it Jessica!!! Thanks for the tips. You are amazing.
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