Trivial AIBU: MN Jury Needed

[NotQuiteCockney]

My inlaws gave DS1 (5) a lego kit. With a tupperware sort of box to keep it in, so none of the bits get lost.

One of us feels this is helpful (the cardboard box will fail), the other felt it was a dig at our (chaotic) housekeeping, and inability to keep the children's (7 billion) toys in any sort of order.

Who is right?

Roth, I suspect.

Helpful, any other assumption smacks of paranoia!

Both, that should be.

think it is quite considerate actually...often reuse shoeboxes to store little bitty toys and even an old cadburys fingers tin !!

wonder if there is a history of remarks etc behind the "dig" theorist. on the face of it sounds jolly helpful but possibly there is a hidden subtext.

You are right

(goes without saying. even though I don't know which view is yours...)

Ooooh, excellent answer MrsJohnCusack! You're absolutely right.

it is thoughtful.

what would have been MORE thoughtful, would have been to buy him something else. something that didnt get stuck up the hoover. something that didn't hurt like hell when you trod on it on your way to the loo in the middle of the night.

I must be odd but I love toys that come with their own boxes ! dd got a Lego box of pieces and I'll add th emiscellaneous ones we already have . Similarly we keep all our Knex in a container and have bought one to hold Magnetix/ geomag/Supermag .

Your house isn't that chaotic, and only the very anally retentive can be bothered to organise their children's toys (it would be like that Greek bloke who was doomed to forever roll a big stone up hill only to have it roll down to the bottom again).

Just because it was a dig at you it doesn't mean that it isn't helpful, and just because it's helpful it doesn't mean that it's not a dig. Does that answer your question?

Hmm, I do try to organise the toys, just because they're easier to use that way.

I have clear envelopes with zippers, to store puzzles and other bits in. They're excellent, but I misplaced them for a few months in the chaos .

We did ask for lego, so it was a considerate gift. And I am getting stuck in to a round of throwing out and giving away, so things will improve.

Message withdrawn

I must be paranoid - for me that's a dig.