I hate throwing these things away! :) What is it about a silly Spelling test with a 100% written at the top that I will want to look at years down the road? BUT it's my daughter's, my mind rages! How can you THROW it away!? :)

What I've been doing is putting ones I think are save-worthy on a shelf in the kitchen above our refrigerator. Then at the close of the school year I go through them, ditch some more, and have still a pretty good stack of "savers."

BUT, I still didn't have a good system for WHERE or HOW to keep them. Not long ago a friend and I had a girls day out. It was a day off school and I had Braeden and Olivia go to our local park district school program... don't be too sad for them, they practically beg me to go there on some days, it's loads of fun! :) My friend and I went to The Container Store as she had some looking to do there. And I found IT - the perfect organizer for school papers!!!

I purchased this clear plastic container and see through plastic envelopes with a string closure that expand up to one inch.  They are SO PERFECT!  The envelopes are larger than a piece of paper, so those odd sized art projects fit beautifully!  And they really do hold a lot!  As you can see I bought a bunch, and I'm going to pick up some more next time I'm by one.  I figure I found it, may as well be prepared to use it through the years and not run out of envelopes without finding them again! :)  (It was also very inexpensive!!!)  And gotta say, the Dymo label maker I bought a few years ago, still use that thing, and love it too!!! :)