Comments on: Picture Not Quite Perfect?

By: Glinda

Glinda — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:52:23 +0000

I still would like to keep some of it, you know?

It just doesn’t have the same impact if you can’t “see” it in person, IMHO.

By: SewPaula

SewPaula — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:34:03 +0000

There is a simple and very neat solution: take a digital picture of each “masterpiece” and store it electronically. Then, once the art has been replaced by the new “masterpiece”, recycle it. You’ve have a wonderful image of the good stuff and cleaner closets.

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The Manolo Week in Review » Manolo's Shoe Blog — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:44:37 +0000

[...] Glinda… So then your child gets the idea that everything they do is this fantabulous piece de resistance that needs to be displayed on the wall or the refrigerator. [...]

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:36:39 +0000

That’s a great story, Twistie. Maybe they just liked to see it and say to themselves “We’re parents; see what we endure?”

For two-dimensional art, there are always scanners. That’s what I’d do, and I’m a notorious packrat. There are preschoolers who have blogs just for their artwork, and as long as you supervise them, that’s a great way to memorialize their artistic triumphs.

By: Twistie

Twistie — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:35:44 +0000

I would have culled as a child, honestly. It became a source of strange amusement to me that a ‘masterpiece’ I was directed to make in first grade out of a cottage cheese tub lid with macaroni and little pine cones glued to it and spraypainted gold wound up hanging just outside my parents’ bedroom for the rest of their lives.

When my father died and my brothers and I were clearing out the house, that cottage cheese lid finally went to its well-earned eternal rest, too.

To this day I have no idea why that one thing stayed hung up on the wall all those years.

By: Phyllis

Phyllis — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:16:22 +0000

Lucky for you that you have a child who is willing to consider throwing stuff out! No such luck in our house, so for years I had to resort to stealth culling of the collection when they were not around. It’s just impossible to keep all of it - by the end of grade school you’ll have enough for landfill.