Have bagged up 75% of the children's toys - help me keep my steely resolve!!!

[colditz]

The boys at 6 and 3

I have kept
Lego
K'nex
Wooden train track
Megablocks
1 tub of cuddlies and plastic farmanimals/dinosaurs
Meccano
Marble run
The wii
All their books.
Small cars

I have discarded a lot of cuddlies, dolls, toy garage, toy cooker, huge plastic diggers, various bits of games, all the hotwheels tracks and accessories, all the cooking paraphernalia, all the macdonalds plastic tat, a v-tech laptop, a leap pad, an aquadraw - so much stuff! 7 bin liners.

now I am panicking that I have done the wrong thing, that they will not have enough to play with. What would you do?

Put it in the loft/garage for a month, if there is anything they really miss you can get it out. Otherwise charity shop.
Bet they won't ask for almost all of it.

I really don't have the storage space, I have neither loft nor garage nor shed.

It's going tomorrow, I'm freecycling the lot.

If I regret it, well, I'll just have to replace it. I doubt I will.

I don't think you will regret it. We are moving in with my mum next week for a couple of months and I have boxed up most of our stuff to go into storage. 75% of the boy's stuff is boxed and they have not missed it.

Just go for it. You won't regret it.

I reduced my youngest two childrens toys to what they could fit in a box each under the bed when they moved to a smaller room. They haven't even asked for the other stuff. Just don't let them see it going!

2 months ago I put absolutely everything that was on DTDs floor in bin bags. I filled 5 bin bags - all in hte garage.

They were told that when a couple of other area's of their bedroom were tidy they could have 1 bag back. When that was put away they could have another back and so on.

They still have none back. In fact there floor is in the same state as when I went round with a bin bag.

From time to time when they are looking for something I say that I think it is in a bag...but they are so bothered that they have not done anything about getting hte bags back.

Personally I feel that I have 2 DDs that couldn't care less that they care so much about their possessions that they have been in the garage for the last 2-3 months.

it's being collected tonight, it's being collected tonight, it will be gone....

the children know it is going, they watched me bag it up. They really do not care !

Well done colditz, am seriously impressed. Perhaps you should post after a couple of weeks to let us know whether they've missed them. I hate throwing my dc's toys away, but if I did they probably wouldn't mind - sometimes they'll ignore their toys & use my clothes, the cutlery, the shoe box, ... instead.

The only warning I'd give is make sure you do get rid of the bags or hide them very very well. Where I go wrong is bagging up the toys and not getting rid of them quickly enough, so the dc find bags of half-remembered toys in the back of the car and fall in love with all over again (for about 2 days, by which time they've merged back into the general mess again).

And think of all the lovely empty space you now have for christmas presents!

Ohh i just did DS1's bedroom and got 4 binbags, all broken sadly so not good enough for charity/freecyle!

I am gonna take them to the tip before DS1 gets home, doubt he'll miss them and he can see his best toys and find them so much better! Front room toy boxes will be next the DS2's measly one toybox in his room.

To update - the only difference this has made is in the level of mess in my house. The boys have not missed one thing I threw out, not one. I kept everything I had seen them playing with in the last 2 months anyway!

The odd time that mine do miss something I've got rid of, I just say, gosh I haven't seen that for ages, I wonder where it went...