do your DHs do this???

[mieow]

I am trying to have a sortout of the kids toys, they have tons and I try and kepp on top of it all, but everytime I do it, DH starts on about how they will have no toys left and that you can't throw away DSs' thomas toys that he outgrew last year etc. I keep all books unless they are ripped. I keep all new toys, but I refuse to keep toys that they have outgrown. I take a bag to the charity shop about once every 2-3 months. They still have tons of toys and are getting more for xmas. Ds hardly plays with his toys as he loves the computer so much, but evry time it comes to a clearout DH starts an argument. Anyone else DH do this???

DS does not have room in his cot for any more soft toys as it is full of wombles, pandas and golliwogs that DP had when HE was a baby!

DP even found his old school satchel and decided to keep it as "DS might want to use it when he starts school"! As if!

I know........ DH even said that we should keep the toys for our GRANDKIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FFS!!!

god, my DP is exactly the opposite. I turn my back for 5 mins and he's thrown out more "clutter".

lol mieow your dp is thinking ahead. Must say I am more like you dp and my dh is more like you.

What my DH won't let me get rid of is the cot - it's huge (American) takes a junior bed-sized mattress, we have a terraced house, no garage and the only storage space we have is in the eaves.

He is saving that for the grandchildren apparently. Mad.

Mieow do you know WHY they are like that
coz it means more work for them
my dh is the same
you have my sympathies

My DH is the opposite - he wants to throw everything away. I have had to patiently teach him that his old shirts make painting smocks for children, and that his old jackets are welcomed by charity shops.

When we first met he was given a soccer annual for his birthday - it went straight in the bin. I pulled it out and gave it to the football mad boy next door. Next I had to retrieve a garden sprayer I'd paid £15 for only a week previously - it just looked like an empty plastic bottle to him, so out it went.

I have to nail everything down, and now we have a system where he has to run it by me before anything goes in the bin.

Janstar, despite his mad cot addiction, (and a map addiction and a matchbook addiction and an old-torn-Tshirt addiction) my DH chucks things out brainlessly AS WELL. In theory he runs things by me too before he chucks them but he has a male brain...

I had a ruthless clearout of toys last month, gave loads to charity and the school Xmas Fair. We were given an ancient electric Lego trainset yonks ago - it's too big for ds1's bedroom and we've only set it up once. I put it with a load of stuff for the charity shop. Dh rescued it and said he'd have a look on ebay to see if it was worth anything. I laughed at him and said it was junk and not worth a penny.

We just sold it for £100.....