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post #11 of 21
1/5/10 at 9:49am
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Originally Posted by jso315 View Post

We definately need a purge, but to be honest, dd still plays with everything & I hate to make her give up things that she is still going to play with...

Same at our house.
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post #12 of 21
1/5/10 at 1:37pm
What I would like to purge is the junk we GOT for Christmas. Bleh. I'd have much rather gotten nothing.
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post #13 of 21
1/5/10 at 7:17pm
I've tried to purge items along the way. Some things my kids willingly give up, but many things they want to hang on to. Like the enormous collection of stuffed animals that they rarely play with. My oldest daughter has about ten baby dolls that I haven't seen her touch in almost a year. A few times I've asked her if we can give them away and she swears she loves them and doesn't want to let go. It seems like any amount of reasoning only falls on deaf ears with her. How do you handle that?
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post #14 of 21
1/19/10 at 8:23am
we purge toys several times a year. i can't stand all the stuff that accumulates, and i don't want them to grow up feeling entitled to owning piles and piles of toys, etc. i'd say about 4 times a year we go through the toys and books and donate to salvation army or freecycle whatever the kids have not been playing with anymore. it feels good to do it and i'm glad to get the kids involved while they are young so they won't grow up having a hard time giving away what they don't need. while our family is not big on holiday gifts and we don't do big birthday parties or anything... somehow we still end up with plenty!
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post #15 of 21
1/19/10 at 8:26am
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Originally Posted by mgproehl View Post

I've tried to purge items along the way. Some things my kids willingly give up, but many things they want to hang on to. Like the enormous collection of stuffed animals that they rarely play with. My oldest daughter has about ten baby dolls that I haven't seen her touch in almost a year. A few times I've asked her if we can give them away and she swears she loves them and doesn't want to let go. It seems like any amount of reasoning only falls on deaf ears with her. How do you handle that?

this is what i would do. my daughter is 4 and she absolutely understands, at her level, that there are many kids who are not as lucky as we are and do not have toys like she does. i would tell her that we are going to keep 2 dolls for herself, which she can choose, and the rest we are going to donate to children who don't have dolls to play with. my kids are always along when we take things to drop them off at the mission, or when i put things out on the porch that we've offered on a freecycle group. i don't think it does the kids any good to just sneak in and steal things when they aren't looking and hope they forget about it. there is a very good lesson to be learned in it, besides us moms not having such chaos in the house!
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post #16 of 21
2/4/10 at 10:37am
I purged before Christmas in late October and took the good ones (not too many that aren't broken) to a consignment shop. Some people will buy toys for Christmas and I made $40.
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post #17 of 21
2/4/10 at 11:32am
I always do it before C-mas..of course the kids are not here when i do it...they never notice if anything is missing though..they all have TOO much!
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post #18 of 21
2/9/10 at 1:02pm
I usually take an afternoon before one of our yard sales & pack up generic toys that DD has accumulated. Now it seems that I need to pack up some baby dolls. She has so many and hardly plays with them. She's into Barbies & stuffed animals now. I just buy clear bins with handles and keep everything sorted by category. DD is used to this method because of daycare & it's seems to be working. Her room is pretty neat for a four-year-old!
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post #19 of 21
2/10/10 at 8:43am
We purge their toys about 3-4 times a year, but they STILL have way too many!

I did finally talk my oldest son into getting rid of all the McDonald's toys though. His teacher at school has a treasure chest which they get to pick random toys out of. We bagged up his McDonald's toys and sent it in along with a note saying she's welcome to keep them for the treasure chest or pass them on if she doesn't need them! FINALLY got them out of our house!

As for the bigger things.... I keep thinking I need to just get rid of my youngest sons toys! Most of them are baby-ish toys, and he usually plays with cars or his older brothers toys. Of course the minute I think I'll do it, he comes out of his closet holding his shape sorter.

I did just put a tub in his room and put 1 toy in it that he rarely plays with. I figure I'll keep the tub in there and just randomly throw in things when I find them...

Writing this makes me want to go look for more to sell/donate!
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post #20 of 21
2/10/10 at 9:29pm
Every 2-3 months I and my sons go through their toy chest, closet and put any toys that they don't play with any more in a bin and donate it to a shelter. I do the same with their clothes as well as they are at the stage when their clothes fit only for a season. I have explained to them (my 3 year old understands but not my 1 year old) that they can have just as much fun with their favorite toys instead of having a whole bunch cluttering up their closet and instead if they give it to another little boy, he can have fun playing with that toy. Now purging every few months is a tradition and I love not tripping over toys.
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