organising and declittering Childrens toys?

[buggyRunner]

I am brilliant at declittering my things but I have a 1 year old and a 3 year old (girls) and they have so many toys (including many of dp fisher price toys from 38 years ago but they are gender neutral and fab)

any tips?

the sheer volume means that the 1 year old is destined to get money for birthdays as we have everything and more! the 3 year old wants to keep everything!

oh and to top it off we just moved to a new house with limited storage and we are buying furniture taking our time to afford quality etc. so have no where really to store everything!!
help!

I don't have any genius strategies for decluttering except to make sure the dc are not around when you do it and anything you decide to get rid of leaves the house quickly. Otherwise, everything you try to get rid of is suddenly the most precious item ever and it is very frustrating when they find a bag of toys you've spent time decluttering only to scatter them around the house again. Not that I speak from bitter experience of course...

I have learnt the lesson whenasking dd1 what she would like to give to charity (thought I could teach her an important life lesson) and she replied- dd2

I good idea that we do in nursery is to have them sorted into boxes that you can have stacked up out of the way. Each week swap which boxes are available.

This way it makes tidy up time easier and also makes sure toys get rotated and played with, rather than the dcs getting fed up.

You could have nice toy storage for toys to be played with such as wicker baskets, and cheap plastic crates for toys in storage.

why has no one else picked up on "declittering"???? I'll keep mine thanks!!!

buggyrunner. Although it's one way to halve your clutter issues...

Did have a little giggle, I confess!

I absolutely pissed myself. :-)

Funniest thread title in a while......

fnar fnar! at title

When my children saw the bag of donations, they promptly rescued all their toys and clothes and we just ended up with it redistributed around the house.
Now I declutter when they are out of the house and dispose of the evidence straight away. Did store it in the car boot once but they found it and rescued again.