What should I do with this?

The spare room? Just in case it gets damaged of course!

Until the castle I was going to suggest a scrap book. My OH laminated the first one and it is still on the wall, but there soon became too many.

How about photographing them all and making a album on the pc.

When Dh redid his study I persuaded him to cover one wall with cork tiles - a massive pinboard - so they go in there!!!

I keep my 5 year old grandsons masterpieces for a week or 3 and then tell him they broke .

How lovely!!

Pictures get put on the fridge and freezer (held on with magnets) - models have to sit on the freezer or on a cupboard somewhere until they get thrown out fall to pieces.

My DM was ruthless about getting rid of things and I am afraid that I keep a lot of 'stuff' for far too long, it must be a reaction.

Could you keep one or two pieces? The castle, hmmm, have you got a cat/dog that might take a delight in sleeping on it ( squashing it)? I should keep it till it's recycling day, then absentmindedly lose it, then you can say with a perfectly straight face " I don't know where it's gone" sweetheart. Subterfuge ChillGill

Oh I do sympathize ChillGill , I get presented with lots of pictures, glittery offerings, egg box robots and everything in between by my 3 DGC too.

My solution is that I have a secret box. It sits on display up on a high shelf on the top of my dresser . They can't reach it but they see me putting things in it. They often ask if they can look in and I say "oh dear me no. It's a secret box. if I were to let you look in, things might disappear" I have told them that each of them can look in when they are 18 . It seems to work and they think (or do they?) that all of their offerings are in that box! Mind you lots of things really are too precious to throw out (like letters, special pictures etc) but you really can't keep everything can you ?

You are all so much nicer than me

A Secret Box! That is exactly what I need. What a cunning plan GillyBob. I 'd hate for her to think I don't treasure the things she makes for me. I do, but not maybe all of them. At least not for more than a week
Ha - Auntiflo I've 'squashed' and 'lost' a few bits this year. It's impossible to tell which bits she'll remember though. She once caught sight of one of her creations scrunched up in the recycling bin and I had to blame the cat for breaking it. She did look a bit suspicious. My granddaughter, not the cat . The cat just looked resigned. She gets blamed for a lot of things. Usually deserved though.

If it's very "precious", you could always say you put it in the loft to keep it safe, and of course if she asked to see it, then you couldn't possibly get up into the loft today, as you have a bone in your leg

The garage? Sounds a bit too large to go anywhere else.
I have various hatboxes on top of the wardrobes where special things go.Still got things that DC made in them as well as DGC.
I keep them for a while, then get rid of them in favour of newer items.They never remember the earlier things they made.

We photograph everything then register it ?. I put all the photos into one digital album on a digital photo frame and away we go.

You'd be surprised who we registered to, even the postman has gracefully accepted a cereal box space ship :-)

Re gifted nor registered lol

you have a bone in your leg
When DH said that to DGD2 (aged 2) she looked at him in astonishment and said 'No you haven't!'.

I've got hats in my hat boxes - is it time to throw them out?

My grandad always used to tell me he'd got a bone in his leg GS1 has taken to doing animation now. It doesn't take up half as much room.

I just love "bone in my leg !"

I had a "very special shelf" in the office, so it worked fine as they were on display, out if the way and when the shelf filled up we chose which ones could be replaced. It all worked well. I have kept some of the good ones along with my children's which no doubt will all be binned once I pop off!!

I too have this problem. Mum always refuses to take any masterpieces home, especially any large models. I have a "washing line" hung along one wall and peg my grandchildren's paintings, drawings etc on to it. It's now full and dgd brings at least one model and several pictures home almost every day! God help me when the little one starts s nursery. I shall need a bigger house!

My sister came to help out when I had a knee replacement and threw out a big bag of what she thought was boxes for recycling. Needless to say when my granddaughter came and asked for her Craft bag, it was nowhere to be seen! Had to explain that Aunty Pam mistakenly threw it out! Aunty Pam redeemed herself though and gave granddaughter a nice big selection of her spare card making stuff with lots of exciting cards, stickers, glitter and glue

Tell her it's so precious you'd like her to take it home and look after it for you.

We used to have trouble with fairies stealing from us.never caught the blighters but they had many an art work.

You might make a rule of "one piece up at a time", so that the latest one supplants the one before.

Old masterpieces make wonderful gift wrap, especially at Christmas, and the children might embellish the wrapped presents further with even more glitter and so on.

gillybob Thu 20-Jul-17 17:45:51

I love that... will have to do the same as we live in a flat! Thank you!