Do you have tons of toys in your house?

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Ds1 and Ds2 are very lucky in that they have a lot of relatives and friends that buy for them evry christmas and birthday. I tend to buy quite a lot at christmas for them too. The thing is i personally don't think kids need so much stuff especially as mine moan they are bored no matter how much they have!
I am intending to get rid of some of it to charity before they get all the new stuff but i have a feeling it will be met with complaints! They don't have any tatty toys really, it will all be good stuff.
what do you lot do about toys? Some of my friends houses don't seem cluttered with toys at all??? But i have to admit i am a tidy freak and i hate clutter so it will be out with bin bags next week i'm afraid!

I don't actually. I too hate clutter and agree with 80s Mum that too many means spoilt for choice. We have 2 (small) boxes of stuff in the sitting room and 1 even smaller load of stuff (mainly books and jigsaws) in DD's bedroom. She's just gone one. Even with this small amount she still prefers to play with non-toy things such as magazines, the video/DVD eject button, mobile phone, anything in drawers. I also recycle and take stuff to the charity shop or put in loft for next one and bring other toys down. And for my own sanity, each night I tidy all the toys in the sitting room into their boxes. I'm not a houseproud freak by any means but I remember from my own childhood that I had one box of toys that I had to tidy away after playing with so I hope my DD will follow my example and when she's old enough she too will tidy up after herself.

Yes, but we regularly donate items that have never quite been played with/ are no longer interesting. Most of DD's toys are kept in a shed and we rotate them which helps too.

NO!
after giving them ( and all our other worldly goods) to the shippers 12 weeks ago they are sitting in a customs shed in Fremantle at the mercy of the quarantine officer.

But very kind friend who has been in same situation has just lent us a box of toys. And actually it is rather refreshing to see the boys get a thrill from a car with 3 wheels and other non-new stuff.