Please don’t ever buy my kids..?

[Kibble19]

Lighthearted, before anyone gets upset about people being ungrateful.

What gifts would you stick on the banned list?

For me, it’s the classic glitter and slime-based toys. Special mention to toys with 4000 loose parts too.

Magazines with tonnes of plastic crap
stickers - because I have enough already to cover my entire house

Also, if you want to buy my kids sweet treats please just one thing!!! We are still eating Easter eggs after the ILs and my DP bought the kids about 10000 of the damn things

Slime

Anything with tiny magnets, anything with tiny marbles. Big plastic things. Oversized cuddly toys.

We have some friends with a slightly younger child who always gift our slightly older child something large and too young. We suspect these are unwanted gifts given to their own DD as their birthdays are quite close. This drove DH bonkers (mainly the size and lack of use not the regifting) so last time he went to the toy shop and bought something big and plastic for them as revenge 😅 For context, I usually buy them something decent quality.

Anything sporting a logo, like Nike etc. I think it's tacky and why should anyone pay good money to be a free advertising billboard?

Mine are adults and the only time I objected to any gift as those repulsive Bratz dolls. I didn’t even give it to charity it was so abhorrent, it went straight in the bin .

It was bought as a birthday gift from a daughters classmate. Truly horrible thing.

This list and specifically the drum.
The toy ironing board and iron bought 25 years ago by my mother for dd. She never did explain why she hadn't bought one for ds.

Anything with a toilet humour theme. I don't understand the obsession with it these days! Every other picture book is called 'The Unicorn Who Farted' or 'James McGue Sat on the Loo' or whatever. And all the board games on the same theme too. They're gross and unnecessary.

I’ve purchased virtually all of these messy small part or crafty things over the last month.

Just today (but before I saw this thread!) I got a farm sounds jigsaw, slime science kit, Lego kit with small bit, craft feathers, and a 10 egg dinosaur dig kit.

Came here for tips as my kids love all this 😂

Things we already own because you CBA to actually check with us before buying things.
Anything from the Aldi Aisle of Crap that was aimed at much older or younger children but you got it anyway because it was a bargain. My three year old doesn't need teething rings or crystal art sets she can choke on and chuck everywhere.
Crap for one off events we've never been to and have no connection to. A coat with "Birmingham 2022" (or whatever it was) when we've never been to Birmingham, have no interest in whatever sport it was for, and in fact live abroad.
Personalised tat items we don't want and can't pass on to others. For example, a "Happy Birthday for Archie" "personalised" book from somewhere like Clinton's cards at Christmas when DS is not called Archie and is in fact a summerborn child.
A "photo book" of low-res shite images you screen grabbed from my Facebook profile without asking.

Rant over lol.

Toy guns

Toys with an electronic sound on repeat!

Play doh

And I’m now on the hunt for these frogs.

although if anyone comes home with a recorder it’ll be going out on bin day

Wooden toys
Random books

The hoover killer that is kinetic sand.

I agree. MIL buys these books for all of us for Christmas, they go straight the to the charity shop.

I have a close friend with kids who are now adults and when they were young we were told "no musical instruments"

Anything my mother bought from either a car boot or charity shop

I'm the queen of buying second hand,but she would go for the crap that either fell apart,dirty,bits missing or just didn't work

She once bought one of those toys where you had to dig out the dinosaur-the Dino had already been dug out!

Then I'd get screamed at for binning it (as 'i paid money for that!') but I simply didn't have the space to store it

Recorders
Lego sets (I didn't mind the mixed boxes but those bloody sets drive me insane)
Marbles-mine swallowed them-twice (no idea if they came out if the other end)
Anything with beads
That sand stuff
Hamma beads (?)
Pound shop 'barbies'
Anything from the pound shop-it just broke
A drum set from a friend who has never had children,so I've never been able to get my revenge

And a massive shout out to my aunt who,having been a skint single mum herself,claimed to understand that money was tighter than a ducks arse

She bought a whole load of toys that needed batteries-not the AA or AAA that i'd stocked up on,but special,odd shaped batteries that caused tears on christmas day because I couldn't pull them out of my arse

I spent at least £20 on them just after,(going without meals to be able to afford them and stomping around town trying to find somewhere that sold them-no online shopping then) only to watch the toys fall apart in the kids hands as soon as they turned them on,so of course there where more tears and the batteries where a waste of money as I couldn't find anything else to use them with

She thought it was hilarious

thank me later...https://www.amazon.co.uk/XFLYP-Percussion-Instrument-Ornaments-Decompression/dp/B0B64TJM7T

Toy drums - I mean the kind you see in a marching band. Afraid to say I once bought one for a little nephew. He loved it - my sister and BiL didn’t!

Anything edible apart from haribo starmix.

No selection boxes, no Easter eggs, no cake, no other sweets. He won't eat it. And then I have to. And then I have to go to the gym 😩

Pretty sure he was swapped at birth when I wasn't looking...

Larger Easter eggs / Christmas chocolate figurines made with really cheap, nasty chocolate.
Everyone in this household appreciates a small quantity of good quality chocolate and the rubbish stuff hangs around with nobody eating it and gets binned after six months.

Edited to add: this post is addressed to my MiL.

This Is why I just give gift vouchers so the parents can buy whatever they want unless it’s a super close niece or nephew then will get them exactly what they’ve asked for.

❤️

Fake lego

Toys. Any kind. Just no Toys.

Books, clothes, puzzles, etc very welcomed.

People still of course, buy toys more than anything.