to get rid of the toys that really piss me off, even if DD still plays with them?

[Undercovamutha]

E.g. Fuzzy Felt. It is the bane of my life. I always seem to have a bit of bloody fuzzy felt stuck to me, every corner of the house seems to be full of the damn stuff, and DD just seems to get it all out of the box, spread it round the main walkways and then go off to play with something else. Grrrr!

Same can be said of many other of DDs toys, which all seem to be minute, totally unsafe for nearly crawling DS, and surprisingly adhesive to clothes!!!!!

AIBU to just surreptitiously rid the house of them? Maybe DD won't even notice !

Anything battery operated
Anything made from horrible hard, bright plastic (most ELC tat)
Anything with lots of tiny accessories to go with a larger thing.
Anything branded with a tv programme

When we moved house I culled a LOT - there was a brilliant second hand toy shop that would sell the toys for you: you got 70% and they got 30%.

Since moving into our smaller house, there are boxes of unpacked toys in the garage. DD and DS have missed exactly none of them.

At some point I will just have to rebag them for the charity shop.

I loathe felt tip pens. They get absolutely everywhere and on absolutely everything.

Drum kits are always good to give to kids of parents you don't like

If I'm in the mood to make my mum feel really guilty, I like to remind her of the time she gave away my wendy house

polly bloody pocket and her bloody teensy weensy bloody mobile phone and her sodding tiny sodding shoes and her stupid handbags made out of funny rubbery stuff. There was an "isn't Polly Pocket made of lead or something?" scare a few years ago and I took the opportunity to chuck all ours out.

Another vote for Moonsand - clever advert but crap stuff. Basically having sand in the house is never a good idea and of course the different colours getting mixed very quickly to make horrid grey.

Any cheap toys which the GPs buy them "just for the day". DD had a rubbishy plastic garage for her toy cars. It gradually fell to pieces but she wouldn't let us chuck it out and it took over the landing.

Moonsand. Currently residing at inlaws house. They have much more patience than I do, and a better hoover.

DS has a Knights and Castles game with about 30 little orange canon balls which appear all over the house, under furniture, under your feet, on the stairs .... Also the worst thing about his lego is the little lego people with their miniature hats, swords, guns etc - also to be found all over the house, under your feet etc.

Transformers. That you need an engineering degree to transform. Hence ( as no-one in this house has an engineering degree, oh no, I did Social and Media Studies, which qualifies me to do diddly squit) the transformers stay in the form they were bought in. Forever. Gloating at me. DS has about 5....

High School Musical Dance Mat
High School Musical Microphone
Hama Beads (but I love them really)
Potter's Wheels that don't quite work

Was going to say Moonsand and lol to see how many others have already said it. I got it for DS1 when he was 2 when DD was a baby. It just ended up in a tantrum from both of us and all over the floor at which point put it on a high high shelf.

Love Playmobil for DS1 now 5 but having said that it does stress me out when sets that cost around £40 end up with missing tiny bits and bits from different sets all muddled up...

LOL at Madame Defarge and 'those evil beads you make patterns with and iron...' I know where you're coming from but Hama beads only seem evil until you've tried Bindeez. Dd was given a travel set for her birthday and they are maddening. Not only do you need impeccable fine motor control to operate the ruddy tweezers, but every time you pick up the 'travel case' or nudge it slightly, all the beads go flying in all directions and you have to do the whole damn thing again.

Long live Hama, I say. Death to Bindeez!

Play Doh.

I fu*king hate it. It was invented by the Devil.........

I'm ashamed to admit I threw away a horrible purple plastic Dora the Explorer Backpack thing that used to sing "Backpack! Backpack! backpack! Backpack!" in a really loud spanish accent. I consoled myself that it had been lying under the sofa for a few months and she had forgotten about it.

When she was tiny, she was given one of those battery operated 'educational' soft toys (a puppy) that sings and counts etc. For some reason it used to get set off when I used to come into our front room in the middle of the night. I'd be feeling my way in the dark, about to feed a screaming 3 month old and I would hear this disembodied sugary american voice in the dark suddenly say "I love you" or "Hug Me!". I swear it was waiting for me behind the sofa with a knife...

Moon Sand was quickly disposed of the day after dd got it. Evil, evil satan dust.

Toy recorder would be the top of my list

DS is hereto banned from ever again owning Playmobil shit. I don't give a toss if he likes it. He can't be arsed to put all those tiny things away into all their tiny little boxes. And I sure as hell can't be arsed. Equally, I never again want to step on a tiny Viking's helmet or sit on a 1mm slice of watermelon...ever. So it's gone, and it's never coming back.

God, Moonsand and playdoh and all that sticky shit is banned, too. That's what they go to nursery for!

Ooh, thought of another one!
The barbies with the dog that poos and the weeing cat!
Why do these things never come in a box so you can keep all the parts together? The tictac shaped poos quickly went the way of the dog (our dog, not the barbie one!) and the bloody litter the cat comes with is coloured sand (which comes in plastic bags - really handy ). Mattel bastards

I hate toys that play annoying electronic sounds when you pick them up,the baby is sleeping then Roary the racing car strikes up,the Noah's ark makes animal noises and various others join in.

I'm throwing out all wooden puzzles. Tomorrow.

I have tried to keep them away from DS until I'm able to sit with him but he gets enraged that they are in the kitchen drawers when he wants them.

Then he does his best to disperse the pieces over a huge area. Some go at the bottom of the garden in the stinging nettles or under the slide in the cobwebs and some under the furniture. Some bits make their way upstairs into our bed or they are to be found in the loo.

So he doesn't get the point of them, does he?

I would keep them all in a cupboard, (but don't have space) or donate to a refuge but they're useless as he has lost most of the pieces.

It's sad about Fuzzy Felts. I loved them as a kid but I was a different child in a different era. No such thing as disposable toys then, you were meant to keep everything.

I remember passionately wishing for the sets advertised on an A4 sheet in the boxes; the circus, the farm, the magic set. Sometimes I got them, sometimes not.

I never ever got my wish-list of toys and I never expected to. And that was only from print ads at that age. No T.V commercials promising outrageous fun.

Playdoh is positively benign compared to the evils of Plasticine . DD was given some by her nostalgic Auntie for Christmas last year. She played with it once, used it as a kind of glue to stick her ELC fairies to a saucer (which did look quite arty, it has to be said). It all went brown, was impossible to get off the fairies and stunk to high heaven, and it doesn't come out of the carpets. Never again.

Talking Thomas the Tank Engine - smug little f*cker. Hate it.

aqua beads aaarrrrggh! and it was MY idea! what was i thinking?

moonsand is definitely evil
playdoh's ok though isn't it?

no carpets in our house though

Mine used to love Fuzzyfelt and so did I. They even still palyed with it when they were about 10. Pollypockets were annoying though, but I nevr threw stuf out without consulting them first, Well I did when they were very small but started asking when they were about 6.