Taylas not even 2 and i sick of Toys! There everywhere, taking over the whole house! Im constantly picking them up, putting things back together, finding lost parts grrr!
Any who....*and breathe* what do you do with your los toys they have outgrown/dont like any more?
Ive kept some stuff but seriously havnt got room to keep everything but feel guilty when i sell/give away stuff! I know if i get rid of everything ill kick myself when we have another baby...

Hun it gets so much worse when you have two

When it was just Thomas I managed to just about keep my living room under control but since having Hannah as well I have just about given up trying to claim a little bit of space for myself. It's a blummin nightmare tbh and so soul destroying when you spend an hour putting everything back together with all the stupid little pieces and bits and bobs together and they are scattered everywhere within seconds again

God do I wish I had a house big enough for a play room!!!

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We have got two big toy boxes; one in Aimee's room and a wicker one which is in our lounge.

That said, I am sitting in the living room now, looking like we have been burgled. There are My Little Pony's everywhere, a huge drawing desk/chair, a toy dressing table and chair and a ton of other toys that Aimee got for her birthday yesterday.

She is allowed to open her huge box of stickers today, so im guessing they will be all over the furniture later - thanks Debs .

I am going to invest in another toy box and put it in Lily's room to help the house look like James and I actually live here, and not Peter bloody Pan!

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Our box room was meant to be a toy room but its turned into a junk room that contains travel cot filled with old toys, upturned slide, pram, hoover, boxes of nappies and an old tv. Really need to sort it out but atm its great being able to open the door, throw something in and quickly slam it behind you!

Out living room had 3-4 plastic tubs full of toys. I havent bothered sorting them since xmas and I know there fuzzy felt missing, duplo mixed with mega blocks, dolls accessories lost. Im pretty sure when I move the sofa's to clean underneath them Im going to find 50 small things that have been pushed under.

Im trying to keep alot of baby toys, actually havent got rid of anything yet. If I dont have one in the next year il have to sell stuff, there's just gona be no room. I think it must be harder for the likes of debs who has one of each sex and play with dif toys. If iv another girl il not need anything and will ban people from buying toys

i throw everything, we have a really small house and we have to pretty much throw/give to charity everything that they dont bother with too much.
He hasnt got anything left from the christmas before last cos we hae thrown it all!
Considering we throw everything though we have a 60litre tub in the living room nd their bedroom, a 4 draw storage think in the hallway and in the shoe cupboard and then he has his work bench, drawing desk and dita has her kitchen sat around and ditas pram and happy house thing is by the sofa and their hoover and popper things are by the other chair so we look like a bloomin toy shop too!

i cant wait until they want all the stupid little things instead that we can hide in a pencil case lol x

Oh meant to say - its soft toys bug me the most. She must have about 50 of them, various animals, sizes, characters, occassions.... She got about 15 when she was born. There is kind of sentiment behind them eg birth, 1st xmas, 1st trip to zoo, easter, a massive hamleys one.... but they take up so much room and rarely get looked at!

Id love to get rid of some of them but feel a bit bad that they mean something & where picked for a reason....

Izzy has a play area in the lounge, but of course stuff gets everywhere when she plays, plus she has 'parking areas' in other others, so by the front door there is the bus, wheely bug and the walker which she refuses to let go as she loves charging round with it! Then her clenaing trolley is parked by the coffee table! So the front room is full!

Also she has stuff up in her room...so yeh toys everywhere!

Come summer its gunna be worse cos there will be outside toys to contend with too!


I sold loads of toys before xmas, the bigger ones anyway that we simply have no room to store

If you have the boxes they sell for good money

ah snoopy i am so bad but if somebody buys them a teddy its gone within a couple of weeks, they have about 4/5 each in thei beds and two on top of the wardrobe. I hate soft toys they are the most stupid pointless things and my kids have never bothered with them!
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I got rid of loads of Aimee's teddys - mean mummy!

I kept the special ones, but all of the others I just put in a St Johns Ambulance charity bag and gave away. It felt quite good as I know they will go to children who need them more than she does x

awwwww Izzy loves all her soft toys!

She has the usual bears, but her favs are 2 gorgeous doll ones that Mo and my Aunty bought her, this is the Hamleys one and the other is similar
http://www.hamleys.com/My_first_Dolly_%7C_Hamleys_Toys/663336,default,pd.html

She also has a little rabbit and a wooly lamb that she HAS to have in bed with her

There are soft toys everywhere! I love and she loves em!

p.s i mean bog standard teddies, not like ones that are their fave tv characters etc, like they both still have their iggle piggles, upsy daisy, toy story zingzilla teddies etc
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ah lisa i would keep something like that cos its sweet, and girly! tis just all the stupid pointless teddies that are ugly i hate lol. Really really bad of me but when we go to the local hospice for their fun days etc the mil always buys them a second hand teddy, and it doesnt even make it home i throw it away on the way home lol. I've got enough annoying ugly first hand teddies without keeping the 2nd hand ones! Also when people go away or something and bring them back a teddy with the place name on or something, whyyyy?!?! it means nothing to them, lol, bradens got a bloomin emmerdale or some gay program teddy =o|
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oh right, luckily people don't buy her that kind...but you know what I'm like with teddies, I still couldnt get rid of them!

Its even harder because were living with my Mum, bless her her bedroom is packed with toys, our bedroom you can barley move in for toys and the front room its packed with toys! I dont mind the smaller ones that can be hidden in a toy box, its all the big'uns like her kitchen (with 100s of tiny bits to go with it!) her ride on, car etc!!
Drives me mad!

Oh and she has a massive basket thing with all her teddies and loads in her they drive me mad too!

my mums got good taste but nobody else that buys for them has lol
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im after getting rid of a load of soft toys but cant bear (sorry) to bin em but dont have the patience to go to charity shop atm. Will get there eventually while on my decluttering drive

we are lucky, we get charity collections through the post about 6 a week so theres never a lack of opportunity to get rid of all my cr*p lol.
Some people say that they just sell on the products and give only a small percentage to charity when they to door collections but tbh if i had a big enough bin i would just chuck it in there, i dont care where it goes and good luck to them if they think they can sell it lol! Aslong as its out o my house!
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I left a whole bag of clothes (half decent) in one of them charity bags and the bastards never came so it all get wrecked in the rain and to make space in the tiny wheely big