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"ZeeExSixAre" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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What do you do with your kids' old homework? Store in garage? Recycle?
Burn with hatred? Reasons?

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Phil, Squid-in-Training

Why?

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What do you do with your kids' old homework? Store in garage? Recycle?
Burn with hatred? Reasons?

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Phil, Squid-in-Training

Why?

I don't know what to do with mine. My parents would save my pocket lint if
they could, but I'm not that extreme.

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Phil, Squid-in-Training

ZeeExSixAre said:

What do you do with your kids' old homework? Store in garage? Recycle?
Burn with hatred? Reasons?

Use it in your compost garden.

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Slacker
"Riding up hill is like masterbating with a sandpaper glove...You knew it
was a bad idea the instant you heard about it." bikecowboy69

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What do you do with your kids' old homework? Store in garage? Recycle?
Burn with hatred? Reasons?

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Phil, Squid-in-Training

How old is(are) the kid(s)? It seems like it would depend on how useful it
could be in the future.

I've saved all my HW since UG, and could see where maybe the HS stuff might
be useful, but before that it seems that it would only be good for
nostalgia.

cc

Recycle. What does my twelfth grader need with his fourth grade HW?
And my 9th grader hasn't ever gone looking for past work.
Nor the 7th grader.

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What do you do with your kids' old homework? Store in garage? Recycle?
Burn with hatred? Reasons?

--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

How old is(are) the kid(s)? It seems like it would depend on how useful it
could be in the future.

I've saved all my HW since UG, and could see where maybe the HS stuff

might

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be useful, but before that it seems that it would only be good for
nostalgia.

cc

ZeeExSixAre said:

What do you do with your kids' old homework? Store in garage? Recycle?
Burn with hatred? Reasons?

During the school year I stuff everything they bring home into one of
those huge pendaflex storage envelopes. EVERYTHING. You wouldn't
believe how useful it is to be able to dig out 6 week's ago class
newsletter - the one where the teacher listed the due dates for the
science fair project. Or that book report that was turned in, marked,
but somehow not recorded in the teacher's grade book (happens more often
than you might expect, too).

At the end of the school year I dig it out and sort through it. I pull
out anything really outstanding or endearing (art projects, stories,
etc.) and stick it into a large envelope for storage. The rest goes
into the recycle bin. I've got the pruning process down to where I can
fit a year's worth of keepers into a 9 x 12 envelope. Report cards for
multiple years are kept together in a central file for each kid.

Kathleen

We kept all the "good stuff" from our kids' homework (i.e. pre-school-type
drawings that were funny) and trashed the rest. They have kept later papers
that they were particularly pleased with, as did I. I still have some homework
I did in high school about ocean pollution, because I liked the drawings I had
done, but that's about it.
Kid #2's drawing of a bike (done at age 6 or 7) with "My Dad wouldn't change my
seat height yesterday. Grrrrr!" written underneath was a definite keeper. ;-)

Steve

ZeeExSixAre said:

What do you do with your kids' old homework? Store in garage?
Recycle? Burn with hatred? Reasons?

I just save report cards, really cool art work, a ew special projects - the
ones that got A+ or ribbons at the science fair, and anything else that's
really interesting or special. Most of it goes in the trash.

Penny

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How old is(are) the kid(s)? It seems like it would depend on how
useful it could be in the future.

20. Me. Not very. Except I could sell it.

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I've saved all my HW since UG, and could see where maybe the HS stuff
might be useful, but before that it seems that it would only be good
for nostalgia.

Hmm. True.

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Phil, Squid-in-Training

Kathleen said:

ZeeExSixAre said:

What do you do with your kids' old homework? Store in garage?
Recycle? Burn with hatred? Reasons?

During the school year I stuff everything they bring home into one of
those huge pendaflex storage envelopes. EVERYTHING. You wouldn't
believe how useful it is to be able to dig out 6 week's ago class
newsletter - the one where the teacher listed the due dates for the
science fair project. Or that book report that was turned in, marked,
but somehow not recorded in the teacher's grade book (happens more often
than you might expect, too).

At the end of the school year I dig it out and sort through it. I pull
out anything really outstanding or endearing (art projects, stories,
etc.) and stick it into a large envelope for storage. The rest goes
into the recycle bin. I've got the pruning process down to where I can
fit a year's worth of keepers into a 9 x 12 envelope. Report cards for
multiple years are kept together in a central file for each kid.

I do about the same, only on a weekly basis. The problem I have is that
both of my kids have come up with some pretty cool artwork. Not that we
want to hang all of it on the walls, but its hard to just pitch.
there's still a lot of school detritus though.

Shawn

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What do you do with your kids' old homework? Store in garage? Recycle?
Burn with hatred? Reasons?

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Phil, Squid-in-Training

We save the more memorable ones, and pitch the rest. A box in the garage
with their name on it works fine. My wife wants to save everything--I want
to pitch everything, so we've kind of compromised.

paladin

"ZeeExSixAre" <[email hidden]> wrote

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What do you do with your kids' old homework? Store in garage? Recycle?
Burn with hatred? Reasons?

Trash most of it

Keep stuff like programs from plays or band concerts. Other specific awards,
etc. Memorable artwork.
One day, your kid will be looking through an old box, and find it.

My 30th HS (gack!) reunion was a few weeks ago. Didn't get to go, but we had
a website for it. I scanned in programs from 5th grade and 8th grade band
concerts/recitals. Much appreciated by the other old farts.

Pete