The Evil Toy Room of Doom
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| Sat, 10-02-2004 - 10:14am |
Do your houses stay as clogged with useless plastic things as mine does??? I really don't think we buy them that many toys, but with three of them, it just sort of accumulates. How do yours take donating toys? I have to wait until they're asleep and sneak the stuff out of the house under cover of darkness. Otherwise, it's just really really ugly. I'm at my wit's end with this--I hate to toss their toys (especially since I know how much the things cost) but we just have more toys that room for them. I don't let them keep toys other than stuffed animals in their bedroom--we're really into "the bedroom is for sleeping"--but their toy room is pretty large, and they have multiple level shelves with big baskets, plus we put a set of bunk beds in there against one wall, and made the bottom bunk into a couch for them in front of their tv, and the top bunk has a piece of plywood cut to fit and painted to match the bed, so all their big bulky stuff lives up there. We STILL don't have enough room. UGH! I'm just going to empty the room into a pile in the hallway, and only keep what will fit back in there with an actual home. Something tells me I'm going to be on three boys poopoo list...:)
Angela
The Toy Terminator

i've been doing that every 6 mo or so since the kids were babies so they're fine with it, but i have a friend who's kids hate it and i think she has a great trick. she tells them "fine, you don't have to give anything away unless you want to, but you can't get any new toys until you part with some old ones." and she means it, nothing out of the quarter machines, no mcdonalds toys, NADA. they cave pretty fast, lol.
when i go toy trashing i have three rules about what goes and what stays. anything from a fast food resturant and anything that hasn't been played with in 6 weeks goes, anything with little parts that i constantly find in the toilet, under the bed, in the fridge, or trip over in the hallway in the middle of the night goes; and they can each salvage three things and only three things from the 'go' pile. beyond that it's a free for all, lol.
it's a pita but it's soooo nice when things are clean enough to actually find what they want to play with, i think they have so much more fun. gl!
His birthday is coming up soon, and then Christmas, and this is a matter of survival LOL!
We now have a futon, a case of matchbox cars and a bag with the rest on top of it, one of those three level organizers with plastic bins (holding rescue heroes, kitchen items, etc...), a bag of building blocks, Lincoln logs, an old coffee table with a bottom shelf which serves as Little People Land, a corner with the Rescue hero mountain command center, a home depot tool bench, two ride on buses, a container with various plush items, and a closet with a ton of games, legos, and thomas wood tracks and trains. I still have to find room to move the kitchen back in from the garage where it sits wrapped in plastic.
I cannot believe how much stuff these kids have. I am responsible for about 25% of it.
New and improved siggy coming soon (which could mean after Christmas)
They are tooooo much sometimes...
Angela :)
my kids have found the toys in my room that are staged to go and my 5yo keeps asking me, "what are you doing with them in your room"?
I keep telling him, I wanted you to have more room in the playroom to play. Isn't it nice now in there? Its going to be a sad day here when he notices the toys are really gone!
I cannot wait to get rid of the Magic Talking Grill. That thing is so loud and so sensitive. My poor cat just about had a heart attack.
Dolli
New and improved siggy coming soon (which could mean after Christmas)
Angela
I'm a toy addict! What helped me was selling toys, because I spend less time in the toy stores and aisles (though I do go there once in a while)! LOL.
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