What is your limit on toys?

Same story here shell. We also have a playroom with shelves and chests and closets full of toys. When is it enough? When you keep stepping on these toys at other parts of the house. When even your kids themselves ask you to get a new chest because the biggest you have could not fit all the toys anymore. Maybe once in every 2 months, I would go throught these toys and just stuff them in a garbage bag and dispose of them. Never mind telling the kids, because they'd surely object. Thankfully, we have some people coming in and living with us for a few months starting next week. So for the past few weeks, we've been converting the playroom into a guest room. Which meant a lot of the toys just disappeared.

HI Shell - wow - that's a big playroom! LOL Well, my little guy has his own playroom too; we also have a room off the kitchen that has become his playroom downstairs. I can admit, I have a neurotic side and I was stressing over toys being everywhere, loosing pieces, mixing up sets, etc. So when he was little we taught him two things that keep me sane. One thing is, certain toys belong certain places... we have "indoor toys and outdoor toys" - he knows, once a toy hits outside, it's not allowed back in the house. We also have "playroom toys" and "fishroom toys" (The large room off the kitchen holds only a large fishtank) So he knows he can't constantly lug stuff up and down the stairs. The other thing we taught him was 'rotation' of toys. When he gets a cache of toys, like his B-day or Xmas, he has to make room for the new stuff by deciding what he wants to rotate out. So, he can give the toys to someone else, he can rotate them down to the fishroom, or they can become outside toys. He selects what gets rotated out and he then 'organizes' his room the way he wants it with all his new stuff. He's really quite good at these concepts. I mean, don't get me wrong, every few weeks, I do still have to go around and make sure everything is where it should be. A playroom toy may end up in the fishroom or vice versa, an indoor toy may end up outside, and the worst, an outside toy may be snuck in! It's all okay, I just really wanted to teach him early to keep track of this things, take care of them, share what he has... and knowing myself, I wanted to eliminate the need for me having to constantly lug toys up and down the stairs, in and out of the backyard, and most of all - keep him from ending up with too much stuff! But like you, I don't get rid of anything unless he really doesn't play with it, it's broken, or he says he wants to 'give it to someone.' I guess I would say as long as they appreciate it, use it, keep track of it, help keep it cleaned up and you have the space - there's nothing wrong with it!

I did not have allot of toys as my kids do now. But I guess that comes with the changing of life. I guess so they have more than we had when we were little. But we clean out their toys that they don't play with anymore. We give them to a thrift shop or give them to someone else that has little kids that don't have that toy.