To have a clear out in the dc's rooms when they're not looking?

[Dancergirl]

Anyone else do this? I do encourage my dc to have a clear out now and again...but sometimes I go through stuff myself and throw away any broken toys and give to charity no longer played with toys. They never notice but I do feel a bit guilty.

AIBU?

I do this regularly.
Mine a only little and never notice and I find it enormously satisfying.

Oh all the time. And they never notice!

Toy Culling is one of my favourite jobs (and they never notice because they have too many toys

I do this ALL the time. I have 3 girls & they would drown in paper, beads & books if I didn't pat their rooms down at least once a month

Well thank goodness for that, I'm not alone! Yes, v satisfying isn't it?

Oh i do this, but feel soooo guilty! i have 3 girls too and my eldest two do occasionally ask for things i know i've thrown. Even the smallest bit of rubbish they might ask for 6mths later.

The question is do you fess up?

Occasionally i admit i've thrown it, but sometimes i'm guilty of pretending to not know, and suggest we look later.................................................................................

Yes I do this too. Occasionally a few months later DS will ask for something I have culled and I say "oh it must have broken"

I have to be careful what I put near the top of the recycling box, as dd (3) gets really upset if she spies any of her scribbles in there....

YADNBU! Not something to do with chiddlers around because they insist on keeping random pieces of crap they haven't played with in aeons the odd toy, and it's barely worth getting started.

I do that regularly, and always have done. Can't bear clutter...or belongings, tbh.

One of the highlights of moving out of the marital home with the girls and leaving him there was that I only packed the best of their stuff and left him the random pieces of crap rest.

I do it all the time. If it is buried deep down and no-one has played with it for ages, then it goes. I have the dilemma of chucking things they have had since birth that they don't remember, but means a lot to me usually because someone nice gave it to them. It seems unfair to allow their toy box to be full of things they have no feelings for.

I don't remember regretting anything I have thrown away. But it has to be done carefully or they notice them on their way out of the door...

Frwuently. I usually move stuff to a box under the stairs for a while to make sure it isn't missed and then it will go.

My Mum does this to me and I'm twenty-four. However, I admit that in my pre-teen days I wouldn't have noticed.

My sister does this to me Lilyberry and I'm in my thirties

When we left Thailand, I took 6 black sacks of toys to the orphanage. In the bag were at least 23 barbie dolls (we never bought her a single one), loads of soft toys and bead sets.
On arrival in Switzerland, she wondered where some of her things had gone. I told her a box must have washed off the ship. To this day, she ponders about the whereabouts of something or other. The box gets the blame.

my dd notices when I throw out crap. At some stage she asks me where that broken bit off a plastic robot from some freebie junk package has got too. She really does.

You have to do it though, occasionally just go throw and throw stuff out otherwise it gets out of hand. I regularly throw out stones, dd is always bringing stones home

i used to do this. now i get dd to help, however, i no longer ask her 'what do you want to throw away?' i just say 'what do you want to keep?, the rest of the box of crap goes in the bin.