What are you doing with the ornaments the kids made? With almost 30 years of preschool/elementary school ornament projects combined - I’ve been struggling with what to do with those ornaments.
All three of my kids are mini hoarders, so it would do no good to ask them which ones they’d like to keep - they’d want every single ornament that’s ever entered the house.
@beebee3 -several years ago I bought an ornament box for each of my kids. I put in all of the ornaments they got from grandparents or us as well as each one they had made. D has a house and her box is there. S is living in a small apartment and not permanently settled so his box is here until he is.
I have so much else of theirs I don’t need to keep the ornaments they made. As for the box I am having them go through, D will be told to take all she wants ( likely not many) and anything S want to keep goes in his ornament box.
Perfect solution! Thank you!
Re: ornaments made by kids. I saved 2 that I liked best from each kid. One for each were those footprint ones. My 3 boys were also in an after school care program that gave each kid (not each family) an ornament each year (K-5th). In the most recent clean out I saved one ornament from each year. I doubt they will want any of them.
Me too. One has hers at her house and the other is getting hers delivered next week (new house)
My sister has the walnut she covered with tinfoil and sparkles when she was a Brownie; she turned 70 this year so about 63 years of hanging it every year?
Ornaments ….
I have a shoebox of all the handmade ornaments from school (and having gone k-8 to a parochial school, there were a lot). I haven’t hung them in a few years, but they are still here. I don’t think I can bear to throw them away -they can do that, when they want to.
I don’t even think I’m putting ornaments on my small (5 ft) tree this year. I put it in a corner that “needed something” and I love how it fits perfectly and adds the right amount of light to a dark area. I do have stockings up and the Fisher Price manger set they played with when they were toddlers, and that’s about it. It feels just right.
Maybe if they still lived at home I’d do it differently. But this is the first year of official empty nesting – even though they come home, it’s for a visit. And it’s my house again lol
Well, I still have a homemade ornament from when I was a kid - I think it has the year 1971 on it. I have culled the homemade ones - throwing out any that didn’t hold up or are very simple (stuff like a doily with a photo on it). But, I have kept many of them. We (my daughter and I) used to make them every year and keep a few for us and give to family, teachers, etc. They hold so many memories for us (the time spent making them, typically painting a wood or carboard cut out.) Many of them still end up on the tree each year.
Now, the 2 boxes I have of hallmark pop cultures ones, mostly from the 90s (everything from Nintendo to Disney to Star Wars), are a different story. They haven’t make it on the tree in over 15 years, and live in my storage unit year round. I should probably weed through them, but I keep thinking they may have value for collectors (delusional I know).
Just looking around on Ebay - some of them may actually be worth something (or course, they would be worth more if I had the original boxes, which I don’t). The thing is, unlike when stuff lived in my basement, closets, or garage, stuff in the storage unit is out of sight and out of mind, and don’t motivate me to get rid of them.
Brough 12!! bags of mostly clothes but some linens and miscellaneous items to a local charity that helps people moving out of homelessness. Along with some bags of trash, felt good about making a bit of dent but still along way to go.
I still put the old handmade ornaments on our tree. Looking to donate some excess holiday stuff, possibly to Goodwill. I don’t have any handmade ornaments from my childhood but I have some very old glass ornaments from my parent’s tree I still use.