Children's memory boxes and drawings

All those precise drawings that your little beauties have created at home, nursery and school. What the hell do you do with them all??

Let me suggest some ideas that have helped me, keep an organised, decluttered, realistic amount, GUILT FREE.

I have memories boxes for all life events that my children have had. I also have scrape books to put pictures. These work by only having one or two if you must, pictures of the same thing. Children are learning all the time and as we know they can practise the same thing over and over, including drawing the same thing. I say each time developments or new achievements in the creative arena take place these are the ones to keep. You do not have to feel guilty for throwing the identical picture you have off little Johnny or Jane that you have received 50 times already. Think its about keeping a time line of your children's development and achievements. 

I have a memory box for every 5 years, if you calculate this its not that many in the long term, unless you have a billion children I guess. 

Keeping children's special toy, clothing something they personally enjoyed is a thumbs up.

Keeping something you wanted them to have because it was cute but they never really wore or played with, GET RID, this is a like item then a memory item.