to not want another sodding ride on toy littering my garden

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We went to a carboot sale on sunday and I got a few things that we could use, some lovely clothes for dd etc. Anyway my DH proudly showed me a ride on tractor that he had bought for £2 (a jcb with pedals tatty but plenty of use in it) - my immediate and honest reaction was to groan and say 'not another one?!' as we have 4 ride on toys at home filling up the shed already. My son only has one bum and he can't pedal yet so it is I being pestered all fecking day to push ds around the sodding garden!!!

So I had to spend the next couple of hours apologising for daring to criticise his choice... dh is on the sensitive side. I am now being pestered to push ds around garden on new tractor ...sigh.

Was there a sensitive caring way I should have used to get across my lack of joy at sight of new unnecessary toy? Pray tell - it could save my marriage as we have a whole summer of carboots to come - dh bally loves em!!

I'll have it! i want a sit on tractor for DS

Just keep expressing joy, then sending them to me

tell him he can take them to the tip when you're through with them and they're a haven for bugs. i have three great big crappy toys in the garden waiting for me to dump them.

I would love to mamag - but dh is a bit precious about his purchases and keeps an eye on them - he will want to see ds enjoying the tractor at the weekend - but he will not be the one pushing him around on it all week

recommend boot sales for any kind of toy - but the ride on ones always sell like hot cakes.

I think you did well to just groan.

My dp hates most toys, especially anything large and plastic.

He does raids, and drops off bagfulls at charity shops if the dds turn their backs on something for more than a day.

My inlaws are particularly good at buying plastic tat, and he specifically asked them this year to get my 5 year old whose birthday it is today 'some kind of storage solution!'. She's got a bedside table.

i've got one of those huge little tyke rocker things that i'll try at a boot sale. hope your dh doesn't buy it bm!

Oh the in-laws are worse than dh if anything - they have bought us sackloads of toys, clothes and books (literally) in the past couple of years - but they don't have to pick it all up at the end of the day!!! But feel very ungrateful if I moan so I remain steadfastly polite - and they have got better recently - can't be sure it will last though

I 'lost' a large plastic dinosaur see-saw that a friend gave my dd for her 1st birthday. I donated it to a local children's hospice, complete with box, a few days after her party. I hated it on sight, it was too big for her and it needed another child to sit on it. I had to get my dad to take it there though as it didn't fit in my car .

both sets of granparents are a nightmare for buying the girls things with loads of bits which I hate with a vengance!! a dolls house with loads of people and furniture, a garage with loads of cars and bits, playdoh cake making stuff, and for dd birthday a few weeks back a kitchen with all the cut in half veg, a tea set and loads of cutlery. I felt like going and throwing it all on the floor cos thats where I knew I would be most evenings picking the damm stuff up at least one big toy is sort of easier to tidy away iyswim