How long to you keep arts n crafts?

seeker

Sun, Nov 08 2015, 4:37 am

I ask the child if they're ready to part with it. I usually wait until the next one comes so it's like "Now that you have the Chayei Sarah picture, are you finished with the Vayeira picture?" Paper things up to a point get hung up often and sometimes kept for longer just because they're flat and easy to miss in the general mess that's always going around here, and we sift through them once in a while. Bulkier projects I'm more inclined to take a picture and then toss.

I think this might also depend on your customer.
My first child was very into her projects and had a really long memory. L-rd save you if you threw anything out without her permission. But she was also pretty reasonable about throwing things out - she understood the concept of taking a picture that will last "forever" and being ok with throwing out the project because we have the picture, and she understood space constraints, and she understood the relative value of another scribbled paper vs a project that she'd worked harder on.
DD#2 is the total opposite. She won't always notice if you sneak her stuff into the garbage. it goes against my principles to do so, but I feel like I have to because she will never consent to it willingly. And she is strong-willed enough that once I ask her, if she says no we will have to live with the thing forever but if I just assume on my own that she's forgotten something if she hasn't asked for it in a couple of weeks, she'll never notice or miss it. She has no concept of space, just keeps loading up her drawer with treasures I.e. every paper she's ever touched with a crayon, and it gets ridiculous. I think I am going to have to work on this because the sneak-thieving is really not a way of life for me. fortunately she doesn't get too attached to too many things... but those things... I think we still have her eisav and yaakov puppets from last year, all their parts have fallen off so they're basically styrofoam eggs on tongue depressors but they aren't going anywhere or we may never hear the end of it.