This January I’m excited to be doing this series called “From Perfection to Reality”. I’m sure I’m not the only one that gets discouraged looking at pictures in organizing magazines or on organizing blogs, because I know my space isn’t perfect. So this month I am touring some of my friends’ houses to show you how other moms organize their spaces, in real life.
The first stop is one of my friends houses who has three little girls, two school age. With having two school age girls there comes a lot of papers and school work. So today she is going to give us her tips on organizing school work and how she keeps her daughters’ school work clutter-free! To organize all her daughter’s papers she used these school memories organizers. (NOTE: these boxes were discontinued but there are lots of great alternative options on Amazon, like these ones).
These simple cardboard boxes are a great way to organize kids’ school work because they are large enough to hold all sorts of papers and projects. Each box is a few inches tall so she made each box hold 2 grades worth of papers, which means each girl will have 3 boxes to get them through middle school: Kindergarten/1st grade, 2nd/3rd grade and 4th/5th grade.
She used a label maker to mark each grade/student. There is also a place to keep track of their teachers, which can be filled out in the years to come.
Once she added her daughters’ school work to the boxes she closed them up and placed them in the girls’ closet for easy storage and quick access. When there are more papers to be added she can easily pull the box down, by the handle, add the papers, and then slide it back up into the closet.
They fit perfectly on the closet shelf and will provide years and years of easy organization for her daughters’ school work.
I’m curious to hear how you organize your children’s school work! If you want to see how I organized my daughter’s school work with Magazine holders, click HERE.
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You had me at the memory boxes, but there is also 1 master box to keep them all together Inside! One of my 2014 goals is to organize my 3 kids school work/memories. This system is a great idea.
I’m a homeschooler so a LOT of papers end up being tossed around in this home. I need organizational help! These would help me keep each student’s paper clutter to the important minimum. Thanks for having this giveaway!
These are a great idea! I’ve been trying to figure out a way to organize my girls’ school papers and these would work perfect!
I need these boxes because I have years worth of my boys paperwork and this is the year to get it all organized! Thanks.
What a great find! Would love to win. Thanks for the chance.
I have a binder for each child, divided into grades. I put report cards, important documents and a sample of their work in their binder. Very little actually comes home.
The memory boxes would be perfect for our homeschooling family! Great way to organize the many, many papers we have.
Thanks for this giveaway and storage idea. I found your blog through pinterest. I would love to win one of these boxes, with 3 girls I could really use this type of organization
The Memory boxes are perfect because they are different than anything I already use. It would be great to have a system in place when my son starts K next year.
I am a sucker for any art work made with hand prints – I really need a better way to save all the art. These look perfect!!!
I would love to win the boxes to put my daughters school papers in them to pass on down to them. They have been kept in a chest with no organizations st all through the years.
Love these boxes. I have lots of school work to organize!
My kids keepsake boxes keep growing with school memories, this would be a great way to organize and store it all
I had no idea these boxes even existed! I have been stuffing my 2nd grade daughters keepsakes in manila envelopes. Needless to say, it wasn’t working out so well…things were getting folded up, squished down into the bottom of the envelope, etc. Thanks for the fantastic idea!
I’d sooo love to switch my current grade school system to this!!!
Is there a trick for the oversized crafts that may not fit in the boxes? My daughter is in preschool so getting organized and started on the right foot is definitely a goal of mine.
This is perfect for my New Years goals! I’m trying to organize my 1st graders pictures and stories. Thank you for the opportunity to win this.
What an adorable idea! I’ve wanted something that is large enough to hold all different kinds of papers in a better way than a hanging file folder. Love the memory boxes!!
This is such a great idea! My son just started school this year and I have been looking for a way to save his artwork! Thanks for the idea Anna!
These are fantastic. I love the fact that they are rigid boxes and lay flat, unlike folders. I want to have a system in place while my children are still young so the task won’t become too overwhelming.
The boxes look awesome! The website says it comes with 6 little boxes plus a bigger one to keep them all in. Super easy! My kids are still in preschool and their work is already piling up. I was planning to pare it down at the end of the school year but I need to get a system in place and soon!
I was talking with my work colleagues the other day about the frustration of storing our children’s papers. These Memory Boxes are the perfect solution to our difficulties!
Right now, all my son’s school papers and projects are in 1 big box. What a great idea to separate them into smaller boxes. Who knew 1 child could generate so many neat “keepsakes”!
I REALLY need these to organize all my daughter’s school projects and artwork!! Thanks for the oportunity.
I’d love to win these to help us stay organized around here !
I have 4 kids and keeping all of their homework and other treasured work organized is a huge job! I love the idea of these boxes!
My kid’s papers are all over the place, and I would love a solution like this so that I can keep all of her stuff together!
I love those memory boxes! They would be the perfect solution to my organizational challenge with school papers to keep!!
I love this method for organizing schoolwork. This would be a wonderful solution for keeping my grandchildren’s papers organized.
What a great idea!
I need these boxes because it look like a great method of organizing children’s keepsakes. I am trying to catch up on organizing our important keepsakes and pictures (about 4 years behind). This would make one part of that much easier.
I want to win because the school memory storage boxes are a complete way to store your child’s school memories in a clever and well organized way.
the memory boxes are great! I have so much school work from my kids that need proper storage!
I need these boxes urgently!!! Not only for my two sons, but also for me…I’m a teacher and we do have papers everywhere! excellent post!
I generally have an organized life, but the school papers have for years been my enemy! These memory boxes seem like the best idea for our family!
I should be a winner because I have 3 school aged children and have 10 file boxes (unsorted and a great big huge jumble) of all of their “important” papers all mixed together! So sad! 🙁
I love this idea. I feel like I’m drowning in school papers, the pile just gets bigger and bigger.
We recently moved into a storage challenged home and these would be a big help in organizing and maximiIng space!
What a great idea! I have no organization to papers at the moment. This would sure help!!
I absolutely love this idea! I always intend on putting the kids’ school work in binders, but for now it’s just sitting in piles. These boxes would be a perfect way to organize them without spending a lot of time!
Oh my gosh, what a great idea! I am looking for a way to organize all of the art and school work that Lincoln brings home, these would be AWESOME!!
I love these organizers! I have a huge goal to clean my house up and keep it organized before new problems arise! I have two daughters who make a lot of art!
Exactly What I Have Bern Trying To Find.
You saw my kids’ school work pile!!! 😉
I love this!
Great ideas, kids come home with so much stuff. My current organization strategy is failing 🙂
This is a great idea. This is my daughter’s first year in school and so much paper comes home!! These memory boxes sound perfect!
What a smart idea these boxes are. To cute. And functional.
This would be perfect.
I’ve been looking for this solution for years. Excited to get the stacks of papers organized.
These are awesome!- I’ve been loking for something like this -would be great to win some!
I tried the link for this post to purchase the memory boxes and it doesn’t seem to work.
Any suggestions?
~jenn
Bummer! I did some looking around and it looks like they don’t have that website anymore. 🙁 I did find the same boxes on Amazon though – http://amzn.to/1OOeRoA. 🙂
The link to the memory boxes is not working
Thank you so much for letting me know! Unfortunately it looks like those boxes have been discontinued (which is a huge bummer) but I found some other good alternative options on Amazon – https://amzn.to/2QJbAOY. I hope you find something that’s perfect for your family. 🙂
Do you still have one of those memory boxes? If so, does the company have their name on it anywhere? I would like to contact them.
thanks….