Toy Management

[vernacular_life]

Even though we had a 'no gift' party for Ben (and think that he's light in the toy department anyway), things are starting to take over. (I know, many of you would laugh if you saw our relatively toy-free home, but bear with me)

I'm an avid reader of Parenthacks, and this tip is a keeper:   Creating a Toy Library
Simple, organized, and lets me embrace my Love of Plastic Bins



Now to tackle the clothes.....

Comments

[snowzilla.livejournal.com]

Oh, plastic bins. I love them so. I buy more thinking they will help me stay organized. This is not always so, but I fool myself into believing it.

That said, the article on the toy library is very interesting. That's something I wish I would have instituted with J and B when they were small and we had double the clutter.

[tray85.livejournal.com]

What a great system!

I don't feel so bad now having gotten rid of most of Katie's old clothes and some of her toys already. I've never liked clutter and even though things have good memories attached to them, you can't keep everything forever (oh wait, you can - like my MIL!)

[tinksdust.livejournal.com]

We have a bunch of stuff in our base from when Andrew was a kid. His parents saved all of his stuff. We've talked about taking a photo of things and even posting them somewhere online with the story that goes behind the item (Andrew can tell stories of his childhood by looking at all of this stuff, which makes it take forever for us to go through it!). Then get rid of it. We'll still have a photo and the story that goes along with it. Good idea but so far we haven't actually done this!

[vernacular-life.livejournal.com]

my parents kept a good bit of our toys from when we were kids - Ben and Liam like playing with some of it now!

[tinksdust.livejournal.com]

Some of the toys from our day are coming back into style!

Andrew has toys and other things. He has these old notes he and his brothers used to throw back and forth to each other when they were playing some game that where they couldn't talk and had to stay on their beds.

I still have some things from when I was a kid but not nearly as much as Andrew. Of course there are some things still left at my parents' house.