My children have too many toys!!!

When my first 2 sons were growing up I can honestly say they did not have too many, as it was a struggle for Dad and I to keep rent paid, food on the table and utilites paid in those early years. So everything we bought for them on birthdays or christmases, was brutily angonizingly thought out and planned out as they had to make things and toys last them. Like bikes were always bought bigger than they were so that they had room to grow. But now with my grand children I can see this happening, they have so much, and we are as guilty as thier parents are at getting what they want when they want. Both houses as you say are covered up and takes an hour in the evenings just to pick up toys. And what I hate more than anything is those little happy meal toys.. grrr step on one in the middle of the night and you might cuss as I do :)))

Wow! I know what you mean. It seems as if we are picking up something everywhere we go. Toys in Happy Meals, getting something "small" at walmart. I can pick things up and in two seconds it is out again. I have bagged things up and donated them, as well as taking some to the dump. I know mine are spoiled. I guess we want our kids to have all the things that we never had. I know their Granny and Pappow contribute alot. lol

I ran into that when my kids were younger. I tried to give them everything I could, because when I was young I didn't have much. I found I had bags and bags of toys that weren't being used. I found a good charity and had my kids help me clean them up and donate them. Finding a group home or a battered womens/family shelter for kids that don't have anything is a great way. It also shows your kids how fortunate they are to have the toys they have, by showing them that not all children are as lucky. It's a great way to give those toys some extra life.

Mine have way too many toys also . I can remember a couple of years ago when I was so worried that I didn't have any toys for a little one when I got pregnant and my other children were all so much older . It is amazing how in a couple of years I went from no baby toys to way too many . In some ways I do agree that I think it is considered spoiling but at the same time I don't see how spoiling a child can be such a bad thing . You can spoil a child and still have them behave , so I have never understood what was wrong with spoiling a child and letting them know how much you love them and seeing the look of happiness and excitement on their faces . They are only little for such a short period of time .

I don´t even know where all those tiny, footbreaking plastic things come from! I swear they multiply on their own like rabbits, because I know I didn´t buy them, but my son has zillions! So I know what you mean, kids have way too many toys. The best thing to do is go through them once a month or so and toss anything that is broken or useless (like the cape for a superman doll that no longer exists!)

Mine dosent have too many toys, but thats ONLY because i dont buy many, and i get rid of toys he dosent play with as soon as he stops showing intrest in them. There are a few toys that have held up over the past 2 years amazingly enough, but most are forgotten about in a matter of weeks, and i pack them up and store them. Every now and then i reintroduce a "new" toy. Mostly though my son is interested in blocks and books. So it can get messy easily.

When my oldest kids were younger, we'd have that problem too. Their mom would just throw all their toys away, so they had issues with not wanting to give anything up. They'd even keep garbage and not get rid of it. So finally, DH and I told them that they had too much stuff and weren't able to use any of it because there was no room left. So we had them put things that they didn't use often or were broken, into a couple of boxes, and then we put them in the garage. Told them that they would still be there if they really needed it, but it just wouldn't be cluttering up their rooms. They finally got into the swing of things and got lots of stuff cleaned out. Now, about 8 years later, we're going through those boxes and pulling decent quality stuff out for DS (15 months) to keep for when he's older, and tossing out all the garbage and junk. Some of the ok stuff can go on ebay. The kids were kind of surprised to see the stuff that they couldn't live with out, but now they have no problem getting rid of it.

I say your bagging them up thats cool eliminate alot of them.even if you were spoilng them at least your now getting rid of some of them,in the mean time dont be going out buying more then it would be pointless to bag them up cause your just bringing in more.Im sure they have toys that have sat or they havent played with in forever pack it up or get rid of it.

I say your bagging them up thats cool eliminate alot of them.even if you were spoilng them at least your now getting rid of some of them,in the mean time dont be going out buying more then it would be pointless to bag them up cause your just bringing in more.Im sure they have toys that have sat or they havent played with in forever pack it up or get rid of it.

having too many toys nd buying what ever children want is a wrong way of bringing up children . becouse when they want something and u buy emediately it fir her/him they think that they should have every thing without reason.they should feel sometimes the lack of something