So, something I've been meaning to ask for a bit now, and that I don't recall there being a thread on. I ask because I figure we are mostly like minded on here regarding our childhood toys. Frankly, I wish my mom kept EVERYTHING, even though I know that that would have been next to impossible. Small apartment early on, and then a fair bit of moving around, coupled with zero idea that any of it would one day be valuable. Also, I had no idea that I'd ever be nostalgic for the toys I didn't even play with anymore.
I've used the term "spoiled" on here before, perhaps I used it out of context, as I recall using that term didn't sit well with people. I don't mean spoiled as in "bad behaviour". I'll rephrase it by saying my daughter is very, very, lucky. She has an absolute sh*t ton of toys. With no exaggeration she has at LEAST 100 stuffies of different sizes. My wife could tell you exactly where and who each one is from. We have a plastic "boat bed" piled about 3 feet high with stuffies. it's honestly a ridiculous sight. I've suggested either going through it and keeping all the character stuffies, and getting rid of the rest, or trying to get my daughter to pick her top 20 favourites or so, but my wife isn't having it, she wants to keep them all.
she also has about 30 Baby Alive, which she's sort of grown out of. American girl is her new thing, she has about 8 and several different playsets for those. She has about a dozen Disney Animators dolls which I have put on display in her Disney room (yes she has a Disney room, which is totally separate from her play room. The Disney room has about 1000 individual small pieces on display). And while this is the bulk of it, there's still tons more (and of course more to come as she's only 4)
while I know what the easy answer to the question is (keep the best get rid of the rest), even that means I'd be keeping a ton of stuff and space is kinda precious is our house (even though it's a huge house).
so what do you guys do with their toys? do you keep the boxes? I have a dry crawl space FILLED with her AG boxes and some boxes from her more expensive Baby alive stuff.
Do you try to keep all the little accessories? for example I try playing hard *** and tell her if she leaves little toy pieces on the floor that I'll sweep them up and put them in the garbage, but to little avail. mostly I pick out the tiny toy pieces but not always, sometimes when I'm frustrated and cleaning I just sweep them up. What do you do? pick them out or sweep/vacuum them up?
Using large totes as an example, how many totes of your kids toys would you keep?
I think we on here tend to think that today's toys don't hold value like our own toys, I can say this is wrong. I've seen baby alive stuff that's only a few years old go for large sums, and the American girl stuff as well. And while I'm not keeping them to sell (I'm keeping them in case she gets as nostalgic for her toys as I have, but it might help put her through University or send her on a trip or whatever someday), it's not like it doesn't cross my mind if I'm being honest.
just curious how you feel about your kid's toys.
I've used the term "spoiled" on here before, perhaps I used it out of context, as I recall using that term didn't sit well with people. I don't mean spoiled as in "bad behaviour". I'll rephrase it by saying my daughter is very, very, lucky. She has an absolute sh*t ton of toys. With no exaggeration she has at LEAST 100 stuffies of different sizes. My wife could tell you exactly where and who each one is from. We have a plastic "boat bed" piled about 3 feet high with stuffies. it's honestly a ridiculous sight. I've suggested either going through it and keeping all the character stuffies, and getting rid of the rest, or trying to get my daughter to pick her top 20 favourites or so, but my wife isn't having it, she wants to keep them all.
she also has about 30 Baby Alive, which she's sort of grown out of. American girl is her new thing, she has about 8 and several different playsets for those. She has about a dozen Disney Animators dolls which I have put on display in her Disney room (yes she has a Disney room, which is totally separate from her play room. The Disney room has about 1000 individual small pieces on display). And while this is the bulk of it, there's still tons more (and of course more to come as she's only 4)
while I know what the easy answer to the question is (keep the best get rid of the rest), even that means I'd be keeping a ton of stuff and space is kinda precious is our house (even though it's a huge house).
so what do you guys do with their toys? do you keep the boxes? I have a dry crawl space FILLED with her AG boxes and some boxes from her more expensive Baby alive stuff.
Do you try to keep all the little accessories? for example I try playing hard *** and tell her if she leaves little toy pieces on the floor that I'll sweep them up and put them in the garbage, but to little avail. mostly I pick out the tiny toy pieces but not always, sometimes when I'm frustrated and cleaning I just sweep them up. What do you do? pick them out or sweep/vacuum them up?
Using large totes as an example, how many totes of your kids toys would you keep?
I think we on here tend to think that today's toys don't hold value like our own toys, I can say this is wrong. I've seen baby alive stuff that's only a few years old go for large sums, and the American girl stuff as well. And while I'm not keeping them to sell (I'm keeping them in case she gets as nostalgic for her toys as I have, but it might help put her through University or send her on a trip or whatever someday), it's not like it doesn't cross my mind if I'm being honest.
just curious how you feel about your kid's toys.
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