Practical tips for sorting school effects

07 November, 2022

Your children have left school for the summer and are now back with all the school supplies used during the year. To ensure that you recover as much of this material as possible and thus not only save money, but also pass on eco-responsible values ​​to your children , here are some practical tips .

Involving children

To make things easier for you and to calmly encourage children to sort and tidy up their school supplies themselves at the end of the year, invite them to help you from a young age. To help them easily know what should be kept and what should be thrown away, print this little User Guide for sorting and tidying up school supplies .

Reuse material that is still useful

Obviously, it is not desirable to keep half-used pencils for the next school year, but it is always possible and certainly more environmentally friendly to keep them so that you can use them at home. In the same way, the rest of a cardboard tablet, slightly damaged colored pencils and a leftover glue stick can certainly find their place in the home's craft materials bin.

Create a reserve of school supplies

Once the sorting is complete, store all the materials that can be used at the start of the school year in a storage space specially designed for this purpose . Classify the items into categories (schoolbags, duo-tangs, loose sheets, pencils, glue and scissors, etc.) so that you can easily find them when the time comes to buy school supplies for the start of the school year. This way, you will not only ensure that nothing is wasted, but you will also make significant savings by avoiding buying duplicate materials !

Sorting out as soon as classes end

Don't wait until August to sort through last year's school supplies; instead, take the time to do it as soon as you get your school bag full! If you can, start buying the missing items for September in June; this will save you an extra task during the often busy back-to-school period, and will give you peace of mind during the holidays!

For more tips and tricks to make sorting school supplies easier , watch the video made by Dominique right here !

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