Tidy playing area=happy children!!

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I'm making a statement here but I firmly believe that children who are wallowing in toys/mess/rubbish are not happy ones!!

I think there's probably a happy medium. Not so tidy that you're scared to touch anything but not so messy that you can't find space to play and a whole set of something to play with.

Sadly mine is at the latter end of my scale.

CD, would you like to come and tidy up for me every hour?

Countess-a cleaner??? You lucky bugger!! Mines at work all day!!

Oh no

Now I sound like some mad obsessive cleaning person which I am most defo. not!

Sophable tell them my house is often a dump isn't it?

Willow, Bettys???

Where are these bloody local mumsnetters when you need them?

Ha ha ha Countess, don't believe you, you're a Stepford Wife, ner ner ner ner ner!

I can envisage you trailing round after your DD picking up things as soon as she stops touching them

HAHAHA!!! I must show dh this thread he thinks I am slob of the century (mind you he can talk)

NO I DO NOT!

my whole garden is covered with her tea set which she was playing with on saturday - it's only the living room I tidy

and using wipes on everything

we don't believe you!!!!

No spit and tshirt usually

Oh phew the cleaner has arrived...

Was starting to worry about that speck of dust on the sink

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RnB maybe I should start Stepford Wife classes...

Right am off to bed

(I have flu honest)

I just worry that the toys are definitively invading the house, I don't have more space to hide them away, I clear up everything and still there's a big car or a horse making an art statement in the living room. I am trying to see them as sculptures but definitively it doesn't work

What do you do with the excess toys? I'm not keen in reducing our living space/spending lots of money in more storage solutions for things that TBH are not worth the expense...

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Ditto on the wipes-mind you those two silly cleaning cows on the telly recomend them too!!

Countess-has the chambermaid plumped up your pillows??

Sadly all my artistic efforts that years ago were displayed in galleries are now focused in Easter hat and the likes. I have been wondering if I should paint the b*y little tikes horse in a style similar to those painted cows that are sold in the museum shops... derpressing really...

I tend to tidy before lunch and at bedtime. Problem is ds1's playing style basically revolves around using any small toys or parts of toys and putting them in his digger/making a den and hiding them there/making them into 'stew'/ etc etc. So lots of things are out at once, none of them being played with in the way they were designed to be (so sheep become cooking ingredients, cars become 'coal' in the train tender....) Its a bit of a pain because lots of things get lost or transported to strange corners of the house but I've given up trying to prevent it.

rofl chandra at the idea of you starting a new series of painted kids toys like the horse parade/cow parade

I'm not obsessive-already said tidied playroom is a mess again but I will just pick things off the floor of the living room to try and keep it "our" space as best!(to do what in Im not sure-I hardly ever see Dh to do "our" stuff anyway).