If you are organised enough to swap toys…

[Monket]

…In and out of use in your house, how do you do it? The kids (3 and 5) are overwhelmed and we need some sort of rotation but I’m not sure where to begin! Any experiences or advice?

Take literally half and put out of reach, basically. We have ours in two identical Ikea crates.

And see about giving some away, or selling, if not played with? They’ll honestly play better with less

Yeah I just have a large box in the garage. Swap out and put those toys into the basket in the lounge and the rest goes into the big box. Every 3 weeks or so (or a rainy day/trying to wfh day as the toys from the garage are "new again" they are really focused).

I'm wanting to do exactly this too, OP, but not sure how to get started.

What do you do if they want/ask for something that's not in that rotation? DS has so, so many things (and it's his birthday next week so goodness knows how much else will come from that...) but does seem to remember it all and out of nowhere ask for something super specific and be distraught if we can't find it

I think my first job will be getting rid anything age inappropriate (still got lots of baby books on the shelf, for example). And then I need some boxes, I guess!

Good to hear this works for others, as I agree - they will play better with less and currently seem quite overwhelmed.