Comments on: Using crates for organizing school papers

By: Precious Crafts

Precious Crafts — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:34:47 +0000

The crates are wonderful for dust-free homes. But, like Patti, I use huge storage containers so that the papers inside would be dust-free and better protected. One of these days, however, I need to go through them again with the kids, who knows – we may be able to reduce it further.

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By: Patti

Patti — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:12:58 +0000

I use a plastic storage container in my son’s closet. All year long we dump stuff in it (because at the time it seems so “valuable”). During the summer, I clean it out and save only the best. He is almost through the 11th grade and we haven’t filled up the container yet! Of course, when he was small I thought I would never throw anything out but if you wait long enough, you will see the difference between every day work and something special.

By: Marcia Wilwerding

Marcia Wilwerding — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:36:12 +0000

Wow, we did this! Crates are awesome. I never dressed them up at all. However, we did have color-coded hanging files, a different color for each child.

Great idea!

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Friday's Frugal Favorites | Saving For Eight — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:51:20 +0000

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By: jennifer

jennifer — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:09:00 +0000

I liked the idea of using the crates, but that is not really practical for me. I have two under the bed storage boxes that I put their stuff in each day. At the end of the year, we go through the box and save items they want to keep. Since it is not a lot of stuff, I use 2 gallon ziploc bags to store their stuff in. They are stackable, easy to store and have labels for writing their names and grades on their – plus they are see-through.

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:49:43 +0000

I use “baby boxes”, a closed crate that has saved all their treasures over the years. Favorite toy, blanket, cards, letters, report cards, etc. Each child ended up with 2 containers by the time they finished high school. Their dad traveled alot when they were in school so we saved all the school papers for him to review. Somehow this ended up in a pile in the corner of the dining room. We let the pile build because they were so impressed by the amount of work they did. The final school day of the year we would have a special lunch and then hit the pile. The children loved reviewing all they had learned that year with comments like “Oh, I remember this!” or “That was hard to learn but it easy for me now.” as they went through the pile back to September. By then the really important projects of the year will stand out and they make their selection of what they want to save (with occasional stuff thrown in by Mom). We even review their report cards so they can remember how sucessful a year they have had. During the year they would often say “I want this for my baby box.” and we would add their treasure. They now have a full history of their lives, pictures, invites, report cards, school work, first paycheck, etc to take with them. All stored in one place. For pictures etc I always had copies make for myself and one for the baby box so as they left home their history didn’t just disappear. There are plenty of treasures to fuel Mom’s Memory box as well.

By: Rana

Rana — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:13:39 +0000

This is a great idea, right now all of my kids things are just in folders. I think I have a couple of crates that I could use for this. Thanks for sharing.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:02:42 +0000

hmmm just had a thought that it might be a neat way to organize my office/craft room. thanks for the inspiration

By: Stacy

Stacy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:01:49 +0000

i do something similar but in an empty file drawer