Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
I.AM.SO.TIRED.OF.TOYS!!!
Sometimes I feel like my kids are lacking in fun toys. Interesting toys. Educational toys. Time-consuming toys. But they have SOOOO much stuff! I'd like to turf it all and start over. We told them last night that today we will be cleaning the family room, where most of the toys reside. From now on, whatever gets left out after being played with will be confiscated, and will have to be earned back. I am not one that will likely ever have it in me to actually trash toys. I personally find that a waste. However, removing the offending toys from the known playing premises to an established holding cell or toy dungeon, until the knights can be reformed and rescue said offending toys is definitely doable for me. I have a hard time getting rid of stuff - it's the way I was raised. Lame I'm sure, but when I was throwing out all my bug-infested baking supplies from the mobile when we moved (someone had given me quite a haul of baking supplies, but filled with these weird little bugs! icky! I stupidly thought some of the stuff was safe and put it in my baking cupboard. Where they spent three years reproducing.), I could just hear my grandfather yelling at me that we were wasting it! Mind you this is the man who saves dog food bags. *rolling eyes* Bless him! Because of the lack of example in sending unused or unusable items to the landfill, I believe everything that is broken can be fixed. Even if it means it will occupy it's landing pad for several years. So that is something else I will work on. If the toys are broken, I will throw them away, unless it's a quick easy repair, and the cost to replace would be substantial. But piecing together 143 broken splinters from a plastic parking garage isn't going to happen. And the voices in my head - oh the voices - will have to be ignored.
Sometimes I feel like my kids are lacking in fun toys. Interesting toys. Educational toys. Time-consuming toys. But they have SOOOO much stuff! I'd like to turf it all and start over. We told them last night that today we will be cleaning the family room, where most of the toys reside. From now on, whatever gets left out after being played with will be confiscated, and will have to be earned back. I am not one that will likely ever have it in me to actually trash toys. I personally find that a waste. However, removing the offending toys from the known playing premises to an established holding cell or toy dungeon, until the knights can be reformed and rescue said offending toys is definitely doable for me. I have a hard time getting rid of stuff - it's the way I was raised. Lame I'm sure, but when I was throwing out all my bug-infested baking supplies from the mobile when we moved (someone had given me quite a haul of baking supplies, but filled with these weird little bugs! icky! I stupidly thought some of the stuff was safe and put it in my baking cupboard. Where they spent three years reproducing.), I could just hear my grandfather yelling at me that we were wasting it! Mind you this is the man who saves dog food bags. *rolling eyes* Bless him! Because of the lack of example in sending unused or unusable items to the landfill, I believe everything that is broken can be fixed. Even if it means it will occupy it's landing pad for several years. So that is something else I will work on. If the toys are broken, I will throw them away, unless it's a quick easy repair, and the cost to replace would be substantial. But piecing together 143 broken splinters from a plastic parking garage isn't going to happen. And the voices in my head - oh the voices - will have to be ignored.
posted by BJ @ 10:05 a.m.
1 Comments:
At February 07, 2007 1:10 p.m.,
Anonymous said…
LOL! I'm with you totally. I hate to throw things out too, so needless to say thoughts of getting rid of toys has usually ended up empty threats...until now. I just got rid of 2 garbage bags full of toys to charity(mostly stuffed animals & toys Liam is getting too old for - but its a start). I've tried recycling the toys but that seems like more work for me however I like and will have to try your idea of a "toy dungeon". :)
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