Slyvanians are bloody expensive

[cocodidit1]

as the title suggests, I am on the hunt for slyvanian families.
They are pricey little buggers, so my question is: are they worth it? and is there anywhere they can be picked up cheaper?

[Lancelottie]

Ebay!
Or come to my house and sneakily kidnap a couple of hundred of the little buggers. DD will never notice and I wont let on.

[cocodidit1]

I will be over under the cover of darkness.....

[PutDownThatLaptop]

I bought loads of them. My daughter barely played with them as they are quite stiff and don't sit properly in their furniture. We sold them on a local Facebook selling page and I am told that their new owner adores them.
(I think I bought them for myself in the first place really as they looked so sweet.)

[Shemozzle]

Ali express do knock off ones, but I haven't seen them in the flesh.

[PutDownThatLaptop]

If you do decide to buy them, Amazon is your friend.

[Ginmakesitallok]

Over the years we've accumulated loads of sylvanian family stuff- great when it's first opened, then it all gets chucked in a box. It has been played with loads though.

[Tomorrowillbeachicken]

I only buy them when on offer. Usually Amazon do that for Black Friday weeks

[1stTimeMama]

Our B&M have one of the lodges reduced from £40, to £19.99.

[anonymice]

I bought furniture from eBay. All the old green stuff. It looks like WW2 utility furniture....

[thenewaveragebear1983]

I just sold all my dad's Sylvanian stuff, boxes of it, on gumtree. We made £100 , so if you do buy it, keep it and the boxes because it's resale value is good.

[thenewaveragebear1983]

Dd's not dad's!

[LittleReindeerwithcloggson]

We've also got hundreds of the little horrors. Think I may have persuaded DD to sell them as they are just gathering dust now.
Amazon is the best place for new, eBay for second hand

[SalemSaberhagen]

thenew I have a mental image of grown man sitting cross legged, feeding tea to a hedgehog out of a teeny tiny mug

[Viiolettheorgangrinder]

I've just ordered the cosy cottage for 15.99 on Amazon.

[Wayfarersonbaby]

Oh bums, that cosy cottage was £18.95 in Tesco and I bought it at that price thinking it wouldn't go any cheaper!

[bummyknocker]

Is it the animal families they want or the tiny things they come with? (My DD loves setting tiny table with tiny cutlery and crockery) You can buy some quite reasonable tiny things from Dolls House Sellers or Amazon.

Otherwise, Ebay!

[ChristmasEvePJs]

Argos will do another 3for2. The cosy cottage and nursery come to £40 with another set upto £20 free would be a good starter kit.

[idontlikealdi]

They've just got some good deals on Amazon - Christmas set, bakery and supermarket for £60ish and a second hand regency hotel in mint condition for £30 from a local selling site.

Now I need to get the bloody families to go in them!

[OutDamnedWind]

Keep an eye on Home Bargains too

[FiddleFigs]

20% off Sylvanian Families at John Lewis (online) at themoment.

I can't decide whether to go down the SF route, or a more traditional wooden dolls house though.

[Artandco]

Mine have them. But then have a traditional wooden dolls house to play with the figures and accessories. I found the sylvanian buildings bad quality plastic, and would have up too much space with several.

[Teasgonecoldagain]

We bought DD some last Xmas, they were a waste for us, she just took all their clothes off and then the dog ended up chewing most of them