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How do you thin out toddlers toys?

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  1. wildwest

    wildwest Moderator

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    My dear toddler has too many toys. I bought 4 small ones for her this Christmas, and expect she will get a few from grandparents.

    We have too many, painfully obvious since we moved into a smaller home. I think about it often, and somehow like she has ESP, the very toys I was thinking about donating show up in her hand the next morning while she enjoys playing with it.

    I gave her tiny hotwheels away and tried to send a tiny wagon too, but it wouldnt fit in the gal's trunk. Out of nowhere my lil one was asking for the tiny bike she outgrew 20 days later and suddenly the wagon became one of her favorite toys.

    Many of them have been with us for a couple years but she creates new ways to use them, thrilling to see her lil mind growing but we still need to thin them out.

    Advice? Dad's do you help with this?
     
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    It's called "The Purge" in my house, and this is with dog toys not kids toys. Both my kids are out of the house now and our two boxers are my wife's 'kids'. Anyways, she's always buying them new stuff and occasionally I have to discreetly empty the older unused toys from their toy box. It works
     
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  3. mdavlee

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    Put some of it up in boxes or tubs out of sight. If they don't ask for it back specifically it gets give away. We do it twice a year seems like.
     
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    I have found sneaking it out is not how to go in our case. My daughter is a type A and it is just easier and better to let her do it. Pack up a box or 3 two or more times a year. Happens every Christmas for sure.

    We buy very few toys but with rather large birthday parties they get a lot of stuff. One other thing my wife does is to set aside some of the gifts to pull them out later on a rainy day.

    That week after Christmas and before New Years is also the best for freebies on CL!
     
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    This.
     
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    The oldest will not give anything away. If she sees something that was give to her younger sister she wants it back still 2 years later.
     
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    If you find a solution let me know. I have this problem x 2... Its outta hand.
     
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    Would she be a "hoarder"? :handshake:
     
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    Yes she is.
     
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    I'm 49, i have a hard time giving up my toy's let alone the kids toys.
     
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    Have you tried to explain that there are kids with no toys and can you imagine how sad you would be without toys. Do you think we could pick some of the toys you don't use much and we can give them to the kids with no toys and make them really happy.
     
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    The idea mentioned here of helping your little one(s) putting less used toys in a plastic tub/bin, waiting a month or two (to see if they miss em)... then giving them to others... is a good one IMO. That way, even if they suddenly miss them later, they had helped to decide which toys they would give to other kids somewhere, and you can remind them.

    As a kid myself... I'd be pizzed if someone came in and just decided which of my toys to get rid of... ;):D
     
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    We're going to need to do this too. Our guy is 14 months old. He's the first grandkid and has more toys than he could even think about using. We still haven't broken out all of the toys he got for his birthday. We're planning to swipe what he hasn't used in a while...
     
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    I am going to try this, thank you for sharing!
     
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    Hell, I'm that way now...............difference being I'm the one who payed for these toys.....:rofl: :lol:
     
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    It's been a long time since we had young children in the house but when we did, they helped to choose what goes. Not in the trash unless something was broken but the extras were given to other young children who needed some toys. We thought it a great way to teach them a lesson in giving.
     
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    Congrats on your lil one!
     
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    My girls were very generous and would share their thing with anyone who wanted them. My boys were very different. After a while, their toys were not recognizable. Usually looked like stuff with duct tape! They moved very quickly into sports equipment and outdoor stuff like skies and snowboards. When I walk down in the woodsy area of this place, I find reminents of old toys as well as some of my missing hand tools.
     
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    :rofl: :lol:
     
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    Came form a line of people who throw nothing away.
    Build more dry storage. :)
     
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