Dh and me just had a row. Ideas please.

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Been complaining the house is too small. Can't move so tough. He wants to put their toys in the roof out of the way, but what is the point to that? They can't play with them then. There are some toys downstiars, especially as DS2 age 2 wants different things down all the time.

Getting fed up of the same old same old tidying the same old toys away every day.

DH is off sick and he has just taken his computer and gone off upstairs. DS2 is now crying instead of sleeping and I am well and truly fed up.

Boxes in the bedroom one new one brought down a day?
Declutter everywhere if you havent already?

Have, say, 10 toys in a box and swap for a different set of 10 every so often. Or recycle what you don't play with anymore and borrow from the toy library.

I guess you've looked into clever storage solutions. Best of luck. x

what storage systems do you have?

all our toys are in huge boxes - one for Barbies etc, one for dolls, one for Happy Land, craft, one various etc. Small tubs for beads, marbles etc, lined up under tv table.

Rule is one toy out at a time - which they do not adhere to but anyway...

Has dh got man flu? Leave him upstairs

can you lie down with ds and get him to sleep

When they want new toys, we have to get rid of old ones first

I refuse to buy anymore boxes

Ikea do good ones

Or pack old but good toys off to nans house if they live near.
Keep the kids occupied when you're at your mums moaning about DH lol
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one of these downstairs?

move boxes around into loft

Ah yes... Trofast from Ikea. Wonderful. Got a wall full of them in DS's bedroom.

or maybe he's having his period

we've just got some of those units (in white) for the dd's bedrooms. v good

We have stuff that the 4 and 6 year olds have probably grown out of but can't get rid of as the 2 year old needs stuff.

We have underbed storage and will get 2 more now DS2 is in a bed. (he is asleep now and DH has gone off to do some work. We have made up)

salsmum Don't have a mum and ILs have enough toys........

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Nab - just found this.
How are things?

Right, compromise with your dh. Box up the stuff that your 4 and 6 year old have outgrown, and put in the loft until your 2 year old is old enough for them.

Then buy a set amount of trofast boxes per child, fill them with toys and keep them in the dc's room/s. Each day, only ONE box per child is allowed to leave their bedroom, and needs to be put back before the next box is allowed down. Also, at the end of the day, each child takes his/her box back to his/her room.

I live in a smallish house and the lounge is our playarea too. So we have one victorian trunk full of toys. Everything else has to stay in their rooms. If they want something to live downstairs, they need to make room in the trunk so something else needs to go upstairs. This means that at bedtime tidying up is easy and the lounge is toy free once the trunk is shut.