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Organize Kids' Paperwork

Better's organizing expert Ellen Damaschino shows us what to do with your kids art and paper work from school.




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" It's the end it's going to hear what is not that that's Allen. This is your son backpack what is thought it after no I -- been hiding in there collier along with this is the thing. But the end of the school year and you have to do this now go through all this stuff don't just stick and a paper bag and put in the closet I wish I -- al-Qaeda that they artwork that people weren't happening you know with. Talk that's a really tough 11 of the rules that I use is what is -- for example. When you kids bring home their artwork. This is a class project obviously everybody cut out the snowman everybody painted -- this isn't worth keeping. Okay but this is. It's a whore trick -- Sam does showing your kid isn't a story that's really special does it say something about them. How you keep it because you can't keep everything that he is going to have a half a house we'll stopped by the time they get out of the house says don't do that to. You need to really we do it now and make a decision you involved and in this process absolutely a lot of times kids don't come home with the really big part portfolios like best. Put all our home floor tonight and I would say want to. -- organizing skills and that's a really good process to keep them now okay and then once you have decided what you are going to. ITunes store and a couple ideas that I have so first of all he can out of our portfolio like this it's -- it all the flat -- Highly recommend. Actually yeah. Use the heart that your kids have been framed and hanging around great idea because -- really proud of what they've done and you should keep -- and really good piece of -- that you children can -- and -- pancake so they can hang in every every year they did that one and then what happens next year when you have a whole -- aren't you -- can switch it out or you can make a whole world -- Wal-Mart -- the room. But not all artists flat so sometimes you get projects like needs. Get some kind of clay project whatever you have like that to what you want to do is they want to either signals yeah hang on the wall or I really highly recommend. Getting some kind of flat box like this this is acid free she paper and you can stored in Nashville."

" All of the three dimensional objects that they bring home can be fit in a box as well they are getting rid of everything from this year how do you prepare for next year okay. What you want to do is. Here we made this is the beginning of the year with all of the files from the beginning of the year that they had all at school information that you need. They're lunch schedule now's the time to clean it out he no longer need this this is -- wait -- actually okay all permission -- by saying the states -- permission -- Spybot for the music you if you want to keep our for example ounces of Manhattan he's taking a summer to want to keep their summer stuff or for example you want to have camps they're going to this summer and those types of things that you want to keep. This is virtually the -- Because what you wanted to start clean for the next year all of this information is gone he's kept it you've gone to the school year you don't need I got -- this process feels detailing. I found it down I got. I think that it cannot hold back happened to. Start clean do it now because all that paperwork going to panic and end all and you want be ready and prepared all the things he left the packed away the kids -- time and -- you ready for next year I think --"

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