Children's toys

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What is your method for clearing out your children's toys. for Context we live in a 2 bedroom small house, with no storage space and my 2 DD 6 and 9 share the largest room, that is becoming overwhelmingly full of toys ect to the point their toys are on the floor and is getting harder to vacuum. Toy boxes are full ect. I want to decluter before more Christmas present come in also would like to put down new flooring and new furniture for them as some point next year. I know they won't want to pass anything on however they only play with a small % of their toys now.

Start with the trash - anything that's broken, used up art supplies etc can go
Then anything that's obviously outgrown (e.g. baby/toddler toys)
Then sort by category - all dolls together, all soft toys, books, etc and get them to decide what to keep. It has to fit in the space you have for it, so they can only keep what actually fits in the toybox.

You have to be ruthless. Given the choice, kids will hang onto everything, so reframe it - 'right so we have 20 soft toys, we only have space for 10, which 10 would you like to keep?'. It's helpful to categorise everything as the poster above mentioned - you can then clearly see what you've got and can see, for instance, they have 10 dolls but only play with 3 of them. Kallax or Trofast units are good for toy storage but I would declutter first, then buy more storage, as you'll have a better idea of what you need.

Good luck - it's an ongoing process !