Someone stop me from getting completely obssessed with missing toy parts............

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ds2 was given a megasketcher thing for Christmas - one of the drawing bits has gone missing - I keep having frantic banshee searching moments. I think it's because the gift was bought by a friend rather than us.

Aggggrrrhhh

Dd got one too, they're good aren't they? But I was immediately resigned to the stamping bits going missing - at least the pen is attached. I think you need to stop the banshee searching, they'll turn up !

Oh Ii confiscate all toys that have more than three or four parts.
Have a pristine Mousetrap and Buckaroo which will never see the outside of the box...

you need to comment on my thread

Oh don't bother. It will go missing again as soon as you find it.

DS has one of those, and he never used the bits anyway, just the pen. (Mind you, that might be because the bit immediately went missing as it's not tied to the main bit the way the pen is.)

Your friend won't know it's gone forever - and after 3 months it will be acceptable that it's gone forever. Or she'll take the hint and buy toys that don't have lots of parts to go missing!

lol

I don't normally do anally retentive , but its been getting to me.

We have yet to build ds1's pirate ship which has about a trillion small parts to it!

Moondog, you need to keep those two in the boxes, they are tedious beyond belief! I HATE Mousetrap...

God,if one of my kids got a pirate ship,I would slump into a deep deep depression....

And I don't know if you're familiar with Bionicles but the minute 1 part is lost I say 'oh dear, it won't be buildable now, I'm chucking it out' and sling it.

lol moondog, I think I may be on the brink of doing so

lol www. Yes,saw how it lasted for oooh all of 30 minutes in my sister's house with her four.
Charlie,would comment on your thread,but as you see,no need...

I'd 'lose' the pirate ship pdq...

I did a 100 piece jigsaw today. And still have all 100 parts.

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yer all saaaaaad
i have a friend like this and I have hidden parts of toys to see her get all twitchy
she once sweated for ages over a missing oil barrel
well she's not a friend as such...

Few books,some wooden building blocks and a ball is plenty imho.

lol

I was like this when I was teaching.

If a piece of jigsaw went missing - a note stayed on the board until it was found - the record was 2 terms.

Ah, actually the trillion small bits things are the best (I imagine you are talking playmobil here). Playmobil has so many bits that you can happily lose about 6 million before anyone actually notices. When DS asks where the grappling hook is, we just give him the axe or something similar and they all fit together anyway (in fact one of our knights has the policeman's gun, in a sort of brutal yet sophisticated version of paper-scissors-stone).

I did find one of the small missing playmobil pieces in DD's nappy

No moondog - a couple of pans and wooden spoons is more than adequate. And if anyone has a sore tooth it gets tied to a door and yanked out on the door being slammed .

Do what I do: have a biggish box solely for the purpose of holding odd parts of toys, and every so often, empty the box out and see what whole toys you can reassign to their rightful place.

Do you really throw out bionicles with one part missing? That is crazy!

lol at Chapman bros style Playmobil (it is they who do all that weird brutal stuff isn't it?)

Puff,I would have locked the doors and roared 'Noone leaves until that piece is found!' It's what the boss used to do when I worked as a cashier in the Town Hall years ago (And what a thrilling job that was...)

HC, PMSL at manner of taunting of not-really-a-friend We really were separated at birth

lol moondog

If I could have got away with it, there would have been no lunch til this missing piece was discovered

I only strike if they show weakness
bet you lot all get upset if the cd's get out of the right cases too

Oh yes harpsichord, there are a couple of Postman Pat videos without cases and I still wake up in a cold sweat 6 months on

Ooh when I'm pissed,cd cases go everywhere.
Came down this morning to a veritable art installation of dirty Champagne glasses,burnt down candles and silvery discs.....

do you remember that cd's were marketed when they first came out as being indestructable, that you could use them as coasters etc. what a big fat lie. and god knows I have tried...