toys with itty bitty pieces are driving me mad - AIBU?

[littlebylittle]

We've just hit the small lego, little tiny dolls with shoes to match phase and I can't even see them on the floor half the time, let alone avoid them with the hoover. I know it will be a painful learning curve and dd will learn to take better care of her posessions but I am not loving it!

I usually just approach with the hoover, with a loud cry of 'anything on the floor goes up the hoover' and I find they clear it all up pretty quickly! It helps that they're only allowed to play with those toys in one room so it doesn't spread throughout the house.

Oh yes, boxes! I bought loads of cheap plastic food boxes from Asda to store separate Playmobile sets/accessories in. Also large ziplock plastic bags for the Lego kits. Once the kit has been made, it's dismantled and put in a bag with its instructions so it can be made again. Sadly I only thought of this recently so we have a big box of unsorted Lego that we will never be able to match up to its instructions!

Sounds like a plan, Sooz!

We had that system from the start mummyDoIt, butt still have ended up with the one giant box. However, dc only wants one box then i wont help if the missing piece cant be found in it dc's lego, dc's problem.

It really really annoys me as i hate people not looking after their possessions, especially toys but i think that is a hangup from my own childhood.

BANE. OF. MY. LIFE

Yanbu

YANBU. How does anyone manage to keep lego kits in the boxes?

Great idea soo

YANBU I got dd an in the night garden game, loads of little pieces but the box was the kind that cant be kept afterwards and filled like a traditional board game box so in the bin with that and im left with a pile of bits, dont know who designed the packaging for that but it was hopeless till I found a lock and lock box going spare. Ive been keeping DD's tiny shoe boxes and decorated them with paper to store little figures and 'bits' we seem to accumulate. Its an endless task trying to sort toys out and once you finish its time to start again...jigsaws arrrgggghhhhh!

And while we're at it (and this is one I have bought other people )...jigsaw books! It pretends to be a harmless book and then when you open it a million pieces fall out! And the jigsaw difficulty seems usually out of kilter with the book interest age. Thank you for helpful suggestions though - I know I would be mean to fight the stage and I loved all that stuff when I was little. It did seem more expensive then and I don't remember having so many people giving birthday presents so the quantity was less. I don't mind so much when there's one theme; we had a lot of happy land, it's when she's got a few unconnected bits of this and that! Rant over and what a lucky girl she is that people buy her this lovely stuff!