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Here is one of my things--my kids were always stealing perfectly good blank printer paper from my office to draw on which was annoying for me workwise and also a waste. And our recycling bin was always full of the papers they brought home from school. So we (well, I) just keep a drawer for scrap paper in the kitchen the kids can pull from. If it has a blank side, they can use it for drawing. It's not nicely organized or anything but now I'm not annoyed to find my printer empty or sad about all the trees we're killing.

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oh and we don't have enough storage for additional big bins so my "bin" for the kids artwork are just dedicated folders I keep in the kitchen in a file rack. at the end of the schoolyear (er...summer) I go through and save the most precious memories in a 3 ring binder. Which I'll probably throw away in 20-30 years but that's future me's problem.

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