I don’t know about you, but I love a good declutter. So yesterday, because we were 3 days into the school holidays and Sophie’s school bag was still sitting at the bottom of the stairs staring at me every time I walked past it, I decided I should probably give it a bit of a decluttering once over.
You know, to check for any random notes/permission slips/school reports that she might have accidentally forgotten to give to me throughout the term. I’m pleased to report that there were no old notes of any kind waiting for me to discover, but there were a large amount of random items sitting at the bottom of her school bag that got me thinking I might have a bit of a hoarding situation on my hands!
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From left to right we have palm cards for a speech Sophie had to do in front of the class in Term One, a spare hair ribbon from school photo day last term, a bag of cruskit crumbs, a warhead wrapper, a random piece of glad wrap, two empty fruit bites packets and one empty yet inflated yoghurt pouch from who knows when!
I also found two drink bottles (one full of water, the other with a large hole in the bottom), a broken umbrella, two scrunched up jumpers, one sock and a pencil. Fabulous!
I raised the subject of what I’d found in Sophie’s school bag at the dinner table last night. As I was rattling off all the things I’d removed from the deep, dark depths of the bag, Sophie pipes up with, “Mum, you totally sound like you’re telling a school bag version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar!”
Which of course led to quite the lengthy discussion about how good that story is and, now that I think about it, completely took the heat off Sophie’s borderline hoarding issue. Well played Sophie, well played!
Have you cleaned out a school bag lately? Is your child a hoarder of random lunch box items too?
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