How many toys?

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A boring thread but I am genuinely curious as to how many toys your kids have. My elderly neighbour tells me my kids have too many but in comparison to some friends they don't seem to have a lot.
I have a 3.5 year old and a 5.5 year old and they have the following -

1. Box of wooden blocks
2. Box of dinosaurs/jungle animals
3. Box of farm animals
4. Box of wooden food
5. Box of toy cars
6. Box of assorted crap
7. Box of vet/Dr role play stuff
8. Box of toy story figures
9. Box of super hero figures
10. Box of wooden dolls house furniture (no dolls house though)

10. Box of lego 11. Box of stickle bricks 12. Box of regular playmobil 13. Box of playmobil 123 11. Magnetic toys 12. 2 Drona boxes of Duplo 13. 1 Drona box of dolls/accessories 14. 1 Drona box of dressing up clothes 15. Megasketcher 16. A toy globe 17. About 30 board games/jigsaws 18. Over 200 books 19. An easel 20. A lot of arts and crafts stuff 21. A swing set 22. A climbing frame 23. 2 x bikes 24. 2 x scooters 25. A sand and water table 26. A slide 27. So so many soft toys! 28. A pop up tent

It does seem like a lot written down though!!!

Goodness, if you can list them I doubt it's too much. I honestly couldn't say. Just wait till their older and in to whatever collectible is the latest craze

I think it depends on

• whether you have space to store it all
• whether they get overwhelmed by the amount
• whether they play with it all every now and then

Thanks for replying, yes they all get played with and storage space isn't an issue, in fact it looks quite neat and they can access them all. They do play really well and have good imaginations so I think, for us, the balance is quite right but to my neighbour, who is in her 90's, it seems excessive.

My husband's grandmother complained he had too many toys, this was in the 70s and he only had his Star Wars figures and a few spaceships. Generational difference.

My Mum visited recently, complained my children have too many toys, then proceeded to unload another 15 or so from her car!

Well that's your clue - she probably only had a couple toys to play with.
I used to get one main present (like a doll) and a couple little things like a pack of cards or a dress for the doll at Christmas when I was a kid in the 60s. In the 30s I can only imagine they got similar or even something like a book. Total.

It would of course seem excessive to someone of that age as that amount of toys simply did not exist. Kids would have have one or two things. The importance of play for learning was not known. Children were expected to be seen and not heard

Mine have the same except no logo (I'm just counting the younger two here), no toy story or super hero figures, no scooters as too young, only one bike (youngest is only 3 months ha) plus the dolls house, toy bus and roads plus all the town set up - trees etc, hair dressers role play stuff, play house outside with slide, sand pit and all the bits, ball pool same, piles of sensory play sets and play doh bits. Seems the right amount for us, I've got plenty on the list as well for next bday and Christmases!

Sounds a lot to me ... my DS wasn't that bothered about mountains of toys and I must admit I was very strict about not allowing too many toys ... I frequently culled toys . I had a friend whose DC had so many toys that you could barely sit down in the sitting room ... personally I thought it was an obscene amount and the DPs were always buying more and more toys ....

It’s similar in our house. I think we have too many toys.

Mine have too sodding many. Maths it, 2 kids, that's X2 birthdays, X2 Christmas presents, the number of family groups who will buy at least 1 present is 7, for us, with grandparents, aunts, uncles. So at 1 present per child per occasion, 27 new things per child every year. That's a lot of stuff!

We've got the following what I would say are proper toys :
Duplo
Lego
Play Mobil, lots of.
Happy land, lots of.
Imaginext bat man houses x4
Dolls house
Big dolls x5
Barbies
Mixed box of my little pony and unicorns
Hot wheels cars with tracks
Monster machines
Miscellaneous cars x4 types
Play kitchen and lots of toy foods
Wooden pirate ship
PJ masks tower thing
Marble run
Lazer guns
Mixed box of dinosaurs
Mixed box of superheroes
All. The. Craft.
Play dough.
Fancy dress.
Board games etc.
Bags of soft toys I haven't siphoned off yet.

Its too much. We are having work done to the house in August and it can't stay downstairs. I am going to split it in half, put half in the loft and 1/4 in each bedroom, then rotate things in /out. If they haven't asked about something then I'm going to get rid.

But that doesn't stop the new stuff coming in! I have asked that grandparents don't go overboard etc already.

Spot the maths typo 🤣

It can add up quickly. Plus, you are at Peak Toy age, with two kids straddling two different age groups of toys.

Its lessens after 6ish. Plus toys get smaller.

Too many 😱

Me I meant not you lol

We’ve got more than that! We cycle them and I get bored easily and like to play with something different. I do buy a lot second hand and we are careful with the toys so if they are not played with I sell them on.

My elderly neighbour tells me my kids have too many

What the fuck had it got to do with your elderly neighbour. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We have a 4x4 IKEA kallax storage thing, so 16 boxes full of toys

I try and keep the boxes quite sorted, so a box of train tracks, a box of transformers, a box full of random toy bits like party bag things & bouncy balls, a box of lego, arts and craft stuff, etc.

As they've got older the toys in the boxes have changed contents (so I gave away the wooden nursery building blocks to make space for extra board games).

If I notice that a box isn't really being used any more then I'm happy to pass those toys on. Usually have a clearout around birthdays and Christmas times to make space for the new presents. Occasionally I'll bag stuff up and out it in the garage but if it hasn't been missed for a month or two then it can go.

How does your neighbour know what toys your kids have? I would say if you can count them it’s not too many.
I don’t have a clue how many mine have.

Well that's definitely more than mine but fair enough I only have one.
I was with you up until "over 30 board games/jigsaws and 200 books" !

We have Mousetrap and that's about it

It's basically envy talking isn't it. I would not have the space for half that stuff so you're obviously doing well in this "consumerism" culture! Your neighbor is speaking from a point that comes from a slightly different culture.

I think the scientific term is 'shitloads' . We were determined not to spoil our daughter (she's not even 2 yet) but we just can't help ourselves if we see a 'bargain'.

I do think a lot of it is down to having nothing as a kid myself. We were really poor and I had a shit upbringing. We seem to be buying our daughter everything we would have loved to have owned as kids. Most of it is wooden toys rather than plastic, but the spare room is packed to the rafters with toys for the next 5yrs.

My dgs stays here at weekends and the amount of toys he has was overwhelming. We know a couple with twins who are struggling. All clothes and toys are sent to them every six weeks. They are very grateful.

Not exactly the same as what you have but I'd say very very similar levels. Take out the dress up stuff, Playmobil and toy story stuff and add in an actual dolls house and 45 trillion Sylvanian bits and that's our house. I don't care, they play with most of it and in another few years they'll be past the toys stage so I'm not worrying about it for now.

We have lots of toys here. My ds is 7, and I sometimes wish I had been more like Ragwort and been a bit more strict about how many toys made it into our home. I think ds gets a little bit overwhelmed by the amount of choice. I am going to slim down our toys. As long as your children play with them all it's fine though.

That’s more than we have, but we live in a two bedroom flat, DC1 is 5 and DC2 is newborn so our circumstances are different than if we had two closer in age living in a 3 bed house with a playroom and garden. Ultimately it doesn’t matter if you have more or less than anyone else - if your kids play with them and you have enough space to store them, it doesn’t matter what other people think! Declutter the ones they don’t use on a regular basis and do a toy rotation and you’re grand.

Boo!!! The title of the thread didn't live up to my expectations at all!