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Do you ever get tired of picking up your children's
homework from all over the house?
Even when my daughter's schoolwork has made it to her
room, it usually ends up in the corner, under her bed,
in her bed, in her closet--wherever she can find a place
to stash it. One time I let it go for so long that when
we finally went through it we had literally filled a
kitchen garbage bag full of discarded school papers.
When we were going through the pile of
papers, we found a lot of things my daughter and I both
wanted to keep. Some of the artwork I kept to put up
at work. Some of the special projects she's done I wanted
to put away somewhere where we'd be able to find it
twenty years from now.
A lot we just threw away, but there were some things
my daughter wanted to keep that we just didn't know
what to do with. I needed to come up with a way to organize
what was left so it wouldn't end up getting scattered
to the wind again.
We looked around at an office supply store and found
a file organizer that seemed to suit her needs. She
selected a purple plastic filing box that is the right
size for 8 1/2 x 11 hanging file folders. My daughter
labeled the folders with the names of her different
classes (e.g., Life Sciences, Health, Language Arts).
My daughter and I came up with this filing idea when she
was in about fifth grade. A freshman in high school this
year, she still has many of the papers she has brought
home since the fifth grade. This has been great not only
for papers and projects she completed, but also for keeping
reference materials she still goes back to from time to
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