Rules for a secret society
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (360605)
Rockingham, Australia
August 12, 2025 10:49pm CST
I’m sure anyone with children will relate to being stuck with much of their bits and pieces for years and years. I’ve had two cardboard boxes stored away waiting for our ‘Irish’ son to go through them. While he was home recently, he managed to reduce the paperwork to one box. Hopefully next year he will get rid of some more.
I’ve kept the piece of paper you can see in the photo . He would have been 7 or 8 I guess and he and his friend formed a secret club. Of course, a club has to have rules and I thought these were pretty good really. Our son has always had a strong sense of fair play.
So the five rules are:
No-one should think he’s better
Only one girl
Listen to everyone’s suggestion
Only one warning
No looking into classified information without the agencys permission.
The older sister was a good mate and a member of the club hence the rule about ‘only one girl’. The last rule about classified information made us laugh. I wonder where they got that idea and those words from.
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@arunima25 (91984)
• Bangalore, India
17h
That's cute and hilarious!!. It would be fun and nostalgic to find such pieces from past. I have kept many such things from my children's childhood. It's tough to get rid off them.
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@JudyEv (360605)
• Rockingham, Australia
12h
I will keep these a bit longer. I couldn't throw them out. 
@vandana7 (102259)
• India
13h
@DaddyEvil Dad keeps things...not I. LOL. I will ask...
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@DaddyEvil (156357)
• United States
13h
@vandana7 
I kept a lot of Pretty's papers, drawings and poetry but she threw most of it away before we moved into this house. I also had several boxes of toys from my childhood and she threw most of them away, too. I did ask her to keep the few stuffed animals I had stored away. She put them into the plastic tote with her beanie babies I'd bought her back when they were worth money. All that is stored in our garage here.
If your dad kept some of your toys, please take a picture and write a discussion about them.
I kept a lot of Pretty's papers, drawings and poetry but she threw most of it away before we moved into this house. I also had several boxes of toys from my childhood and she threw most of them away, too. I did ask her to keep the few stuffed animals I had stored away. She put them into the plastic tote with her beanie babies I'd bought her back when they were worth money. All that is stored in our garage here.
If your dad kept some of your toys, please take a picture and write a discussion about them. 1 person likes this
@DaddyEvil (156357)
• United States
14h
Do you still have things from when you were a kid, vanny?
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@DaddyEvil (156357)
• United States
14h
They're good rules for a secret club! 
We had boxes and boxes of stuff from when Pretty was still in school until we got ready to move into this house. I was working all the overtime I could get so she did most of the work paring things down for both of us. (There were a few things I wish she'd kept but I was happy enough to let her sort everything we owned and get rid of most of it.)
I still had several boxes of stuff from my childhood that she went through and got rid of most of it, too. I did tell her that the stuffed animals could all be lumped together and kept, which she did.1 person likes this
@DaddyEvil (156357)
• United States
12h
@JudyEv I agree, it's tricky to scale down for a move... Pretty did a good job of it.
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@Marilynda1225 (85811)
• United States
7h
I do have similar stuff like that from my kids and then added the grandkids to the mix. It's so much fun looking through that stuff occasionally especially since time goes by so fast.
That paper is priceless and so happy your shared it. Your son and his secret agency were smart to have rules.
@Traceyjayne (4320)
• United Kingdom
56m
I love that…I would have to keep it forever. Good , sensible rules too . I do wonder about the classified information though.
