tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998204900912962092.post8382842602331751029..comments2023-10-12T02:33:56.490-06:00Comments on Buried in Laundry: Buried in ToysQuadmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811147214370454309noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998204900912962092.post-60254022627568040262010-07-14T20:56:29.839-06:002010-07-14T20:56:29.839-06:00Your house sounds like our house- toys everywhere,...Your house sounds like our house- toys everywhere, as far as the eye can see. I consider myself lucky to have not yet broken a limb from all the times I've nearly fallen as I've accidentally stepped on a toy. I swear it is my kids' goal each day to take out every single toy we own. And of course, none of it gets put away unless I do it. They love to sing the clean up song, but are pretty terrible with the follow through. I will confess that on a particularly bad day, I did get out the trash bag and threaten to throw all the toys away unless they started helping me clean up. It worked, but I felt terrible having made the threat. Now I'm just secretly setting toys aside for our twin club's fall sale. If they miss a toy enough to ask for it, I'll give it back. If not, it's going to the sale.reanbeanhttp://www.reanbean.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998204900912962092.post-79856604628079756942010-07-14T20:10:13.084-06:002010-07-14T20:10:13.084-06:00One of these days your girls will be grown and you...One of these days your girls will be grown and you'll wish they'd left behind a stuffed animal or two. Unless you can't move for them being in the way, I wouldn't worry about how many they had.<br /><br />My granddaughter (20) just told us that she would surround herself with beanie babies before she went to sleep, then choose a special one for that night. She felt safer with them beside her.<br /><br />None of us ever suspected that was the case. She surely had a lot of those toys.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07149940452550321323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998204900912962092.post-45988171858684619732010-07-14T19:00:58.885-06:002010-07-14T19:00:58.885-06:00Sounds like the toys at our house =)Sounds like the toys at our house =)MaryAnnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13253503049272771754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998204900912962092.post-66322752307541728322010-07-14T14:13:32.988-06:002010-07-14T14:13:32.988-06:00Good luck with the dream of not having any toys in...Good luck with the dream of not having any toys in your house. My 3 children are all adults now and live elsewhere, but I seem to still have toys in the house. Toys for children of friends that come over, toys for my students for when they visit; baby toys, toddler toys, and big kid toys. I have 5 "fake" grandchildren ranging in age from 15 years to 2 years. So yes; I still lots of toys. I think that they keep us young.Denisenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998204900912962092.post-24675765940029837342010-07-14T10:18:55.270-06:002010-07-14T10:18:55.270-06:00Just yesterday, I discreetly moved through the hou...Just yesterday, I discreetly moved through the house like a stealth ninja picking up all the scattered stuffed animals and putting them in a plastic tote. I hid it in the attic. I'll see if anyone notices that they're missing, but if they don't say anything by the time a month has passed, those stuffed animals will be moving out permanently.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11117084634845147874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998204900912962092.post-12099336791572334142010-07-14T07:34:10.459-06:002010-07-14T07:34:10.459-06:00When I would go through things to give to goodwill...When I would go through things to give to goodwill and the like, I always had my daughter help me. I explained that there were many children who had little or nothing to play with and that toys she no longer needed could make their days better.<br /><br />I usually had to put the brakes on before she gave them all up.Stephanie Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.com