Are you keeping any toys/books for grandchildren?

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And if so how do you chose what to save? Obviously space will determine a lot of what, if anything, people hang onto but beyond that...
Our eldest and youngest are 12 years apart, despite that I have things all three have played with. It's hard to say goodbye but we need to declutter.

I’ve kept some books I’ve loved reading to my DD when she was small. Not necessarily for grandchildren but because I can’t let go of them. If I have gc then I’d love to get the chance to read them again.

And yes, books. I kept all the really good picture books, and every so often DGD and I will look in the shelves in my study and choose a few more that she's ready for, and add them to her stash of books and toys at my house. This weekend we brought down the Nicola Bayley set of little Copycats books, and DGD loved then as much as my DD had, and DD and I loved sharing then with her.

My mum kept a lot of our childhood games and toys in the loft more for sentimental reasons than for grandchildren necessarily. They have actually been really useful for DD, there's always something to play with at granny's house and me and my sister have enjoyed reminiscing over the things she kept. We have a farm yard that my grandad made for his children that DD plays with and it has given him no end of pleasure to see his great grandchild play with it.

We're just back from an extended stay at Granny's house where our DC loved the old toys. The full play sets were the best- Heman and castle grey skull with all the villains, old dolls with full set of clothes, Barbies with clothes accessories. Garage with cars. Each set was in a large plastic box so would just bring out one at a time and easy storage. The full sets meant that different ages could use it at the same time in different ways and held their interest for days.

Yes. The things that they loved the best.
So favourite books (some of which were mine), ~100 schleich animals, some puzzles and board games.

Only a little wooden ride on that both of my girls loved and would still ride today if they thought they could get away with it (15 and 11!). They've both asked for it to be kept. There are some toys in the loft which they've forgotten about and they'll probably stay up there for the next 20 years anyway. No idea what's in that lot.

Lego won't degrade. People are still using and playing with bricks from the 1950-60s! If they haven't perished after 60+ years, they're good.

I’ll keep a box of Duplo and some Little People sets. They don’t take up much room, are very robust, fun to play from 1 to 6 years old and will be useful to bring out for any little kids that come to visit in the future, whether grandchildren or other young visitors.

I’ll also keep a few favourite picture books that survive in reasonable condition. My mum had kept a few of my childhood books and it was really interesting to see an insight into parenting and babyhood of that time.

Not really no. Most of DD's ''used but in good condition' toys and books were donated to the primary schools she was at or the Ines I taught at. Some were passed in to friends and family. Some others were sold.

Though dd has kept all of her Sylvanian Families. Toys. There are thousands of pounds work stored in our garage. No one had the energy to separate them all into their relevant sets and there are far too many parts of sell as one big lot. And too tiny and fragile to go into infant schools to play with - they'd get destroyed in days. So they may be fine for future grandchildren if we have any.

Only a box of Christmas story books.

I wish there was more from my childhood my parents had kept for my DCs.

I love it when I find a vintage fisher price toy in a charity shop!

There are quite a few things of my DCs I'm keeping. I'm not getting rid of Lego. Same with brio, playmobil, most teddies, small trinkets.

Just not big plastic tat.

I kept all my childhood books and I wish I still had some of my childhood toys. All my children have enjoyed my childhood books. My mum has some Lego that was my brothers' and I'll be keeping all our Lego and various other things.

I’m not saving for grandchildren, I’m saving one box of stuff that my children loved. It’s for their memories rather than an assumption of grandchildren one day.

I keep it to just one plastic crate so there’s not too much storage needed, and it has toys and books that meant something to them.

I kept wooden railway box and a couple of special books. I won’t keep a lot because I know it most likely won’t be worth storing. I cleared a ton of children’s things out of my parents home a couple of years ago. The books from my childhood felt really dated and my xhildren weren’t interested in them. They did enjoy the cars (because toys cars back then were actually metal and decently made).

Only the brio train set and the dolls house.

Er, yes. I currently still have Lego, duplo, playmobil, some Happyland, some TV stuff eg small Dora castle, Octonauts, and a doll house. Have bits from my childhood at my mum’s too. Care Bears, My Little Ponies. And books. My mum also has all my brother’s Star Wars stuff!

My kids loved playing with the old fisher price figures at my mum’s house. And the weebles!

I get the clutter conundrum though. It can feel overwhelming.

So far we are keeping the wooden train set, Lego, metal Thomas The Tank Engine trains (DS has loads), some books, a few Hot Wheels cars and Playmobil, his collection of Marvel and Star Wars large figures and models.

Yes I have bought toys for my children with a half an eye on the future - so timeless wooden toys and "nice" dolls with outfits, wooden train sets and so on will go in the loft. The plastic tat which are tv character based all gets donated

Yes. I filter out anything ‘average’, and just give away. But will keep nicer things which are good quality like wooden blocks, schleich, certain books, etc. Most of these things I imagine we will still be using for years first anyway

I don’t have anything from my childhood at all.

No.

Yes. I still have most of my books from late Primary and my Lego and both have been fully used by my DSs so (as we have space) I have kept Duplo, Brio and some wooden toys (Noah’s Ark etc). DM still has all the small children’s books and they are much read when we go to stay. If I don’t end up with GC then someone in the family will!

Wooden dolls house, cot and high chair. Brio train set, a few books. Sylvanian Families. Playmobil. Puppets.

Both kids loved their American Girl dolls, we have four of those with associated clothing plus a bunk bed that they made with their dad.

No

We pass everything on to charities.

Everything that @bertiebotts said!

I've kept a couple of things but these are more for my own sentimental reasons than for any future GC. I'd prefer toys to be played with rather than stored so pass on - also even the nice wooden stuff my DDs had ended up being scuffed or chewed in toddler play so would buy new to avoid being that MIL in the future .