Hi IMs
I need some advice or suggestions please
To some it will probably sound ridiculous but for me it isn't.
My 3 year old DD has too many toys
Half are in a huge storage box in the study and the others in her bedroom
Stuffed toys (this seems to cover most of it), blocks, books, plastic toys, barbie campervan (bloody huge) an interactive kitchen, cars, and what just seems like random crap really that been collected within the time frame.
Daddy is fifo and does just get bought lots of stuff unfortunately..
I need to cull some of them. There is way too many.
I have taken many away before in cleaning and she does really well with imaginative play and minimal toys. She honestly does get overwhelmed by too many.
We haven't got the room to keep them all. I was going to try not buying new toys for a year plus, and rotating them but it's not going to possible.
My question is, how do you chose which to keep and which to pass on??
I can't just give her them all to chose between cause they're all a novelty for half hour, then just chucked aside. I can't say there are particulars, except books which will stay, the puzzles and certain stuffed toys.
Any ideas please?!
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I just went through my daughters toys although they didnt have that many im just lazy and hate cleaning and sorting all the crap.
I let them keep 3 sentimental teddies/baby dolls each. We kept the blocks as they have continued to play with these for 3 years, anything that was a little broken we got rid of, they have 3 barbies each, we keep all the books and puzzles, colouring in pencils and books that still have blank pages we keep, all the other little plastic crappy things that they have either outgrown or dont play with in the space of a fortnight got turfed or passed onto other kids.
I occasionally go through our toys at night when my kids are asleep! All the random crappy ones that aren't worth passing on (stuff out of party bags etc) get binned, other things get put out of sight to either donate, sell or pass on to friends or family. I don't give my kids the choice, or we'd never get rid of anything. I just observe what their favourite things are, or things they would genuinely miss if they disappeared. If I've picked right, the kids don't even realise anything's missing. They still have heaps of toys, but every few months we do a little cull so they don't take over the house.