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

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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 !

You can make a small fortune flogging off all of your kids' old toys at NCT Nearly New Sales and spend it on new stuff to clutter up the house with. Or invest it in a new handbag

Just think of the unsuspecting Mum thinking that the VTech First Steps Baby Walker is a steal Altogether now - "Hello, puppy calling would you like to play with me!"

....let's have fun together while you learn your abc...
COmpletely agree about NCT sales btw. I think many of them have just been and gone but ours take a 30% cut and I still made 70 quid getting rid of dd's old junk toys. And yes, that did include the demonic walker

DS has an educational car, sings the alphabet and numbers.
He's never been a good sleeper, on the nights we'd struggle to get him to sleep, shushing and patting for what seemed like hours until we'd pluck up the nerve to creep out of his room. I'd nervously come down the stairs as the house would be in semi darkness, only to stub my toe hard against this damn car, which would start up at the top of its voice "Ayyy Beee Ceeeeeeeeeeeeee Deee Eeee eeeeF Geeee"
Never actually woke DS up amazingly but gave me the shock of my life and a mad panic for the off switch

Moonsand ... aghh .. it gets everywhere. The first time we played with it I was warning the kids not to drop too much of it on the kitchen floor as we'd have to throw the dropped sand away, what with it been mixed up with the odd rice crispy, bits of floor fluff/dust etc. Now I smile inside and gleefully say ..."oooh ,you've drop loads, nevermind, I'll just have to brush that up and throw it away later." ...evil genius chuckle to self ..."Moonsand your days are numbered, ha, ha!"

haha i was just about to post about bloody moonsand. it came out the box once and i haven't been able to work up the patience for it again.

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What's Fuzzy Felt?

Puzzle books - hate them hate them hate them. Fall apart every time you open a page.
Our house is littered with playmobil and lego from 3DSs. DD just crawling and is in mortal danger.
I really am evil on the getting rid of things front. We have six of us living in a small 2 bedroom flat so the toy situation easily gets out of hand. I just swipe anything that we don"t have room for and Freecycle, Charity shop or eBay it. Usually get enough off eBay at Christmas to buy a few more presents. I have to admit I have even been cruel enough to steal birthday and Christmas presents before they are played with and save them to give as gifts at other people"s birthday parties. Last Xmas my mum gave each of my 3 eldest upwards of 30 presents each - so another 100 items to find homes for (despite being asked to go easy)... we stopped at a charity shop on the way back to London and unloaded a few.

My mother decided guns were bad and threw my cap gun away (well, she said "it was broken" but I knew it wasn't). Stopped me playing Purdey from the New Avengers, doing that leaping-round-corner-and-pointing-the-gun thing. Not that I'm bitter at all...sniff...

Anyway, I now do the same thing to my DD2 (DD1 was amazingly compliant at passing on stuff that she'd outgrown). She'll be in therapy for years (am waiting for the opportunity to say that Baby Born's frickin car is broken as it's a huge lump of pink plastic annoyance)

I disagree re Lego and Playdoh, I think they are great - DD2 (age 6) loves being creative, but Playdoh means she does it at the kitchen table and then it has to go away or it dries out. No nagging to keep the junk model she's lovingly made (we now take a digital pic of her cardboard box creations then recycle/bin). Lego will keep her amused for ages, just don't et the sets of special Lego where you need to know what bit goes where (Star Wars etc) or if you do, don't be precious about it just chuck it in one big box. Again, she plus kid from over the road will play with a tub of Lego (or Duplo if DD3 is around) for hours.

I have a car boot full of crap lovely plastic developmental toys to hopefully sell at our local NCT sale this weekend

musical books- DS used to try take them out his bookshelf for bedtime stories- now they reside downstairs, they were waking him up at bedtime.

Lov playdoh, so does he. We have fun together playing with it and he is only 2 and a half yrs old. He can make things out of it and use his imagination.

Glad I read this as was seriously considering moonsand for his xmas. No longer.
thank you lovely MN's.