Comments on: Why Buy Toys?

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:43:28 +0000

I have tried to get my son to play with the pile of toys he received on Christmas. No go! He just wants his wooden spoon. Some kids hang with their teddy, while my son is gnawing on his kitchen aid special!

By: Keith Wilcox

Keith Wilcox — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:35:58 +0000

You have discovered what every parent in the history of parenting has figured out too late to save themselves the aggravation of thousands of wasted dollars on crappy toys We did the exact same thing. Bought a bajillion and one toys that took up too much space, cost too much and never got played with more than a few times. Rocks — just give them rocks and they’ll be happy! HAHAH

By: C J

C J — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:38:34 +0000

When the children finally left to go about doing their own thing we started converting their rooms into the guest room, the office and the other office..now that they have had children one of the offices has turned into a play room,dedicated exclusively for the grand kind and their stuff. We love it and wouldn’t have it any other way. The toys handed down from the oldest to the youngest and now the little guy,(1 1/2 year old) has inherited all of them and loves to come over and look through is aquired loot.

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:51:00 +0000

@Krystal: I know the feeling. We have four bedrooms and my son takes up three of them. His bedroom, a toy room, and a reading room. All my stuff got moved to the basement.

By: Krystal Grant

Krystal Grant — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:09:30 +0000

I absolutely love this post! My kids have a humongous playroom (the reason I can’t get any furniture in my formal living room). They have every toy that Fisher Price, Leapster, and Mattel ever made, but lo and behold, they want to play with ratty old pillow cases, shoes, paper towel dispensers and any other non toy item that children should not be playing with. I think I’ll have a yard sale and get rid of all these unused toys so I can finally get some formal living room furniture!Let’s see how they like that!

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:22:56 +0000

@Chris: I think I am going to save the boxes from the present we buy him this year, and give him the boxes next year for Xmas… Sounds like a plan!!

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:22:00 +0000

@Sheliza: A paper towel, or the whole roll? Because God forbid that Ace finds the whole roll of paper towels… Once he found a brand new bag of paper towels… Our living room looked like it snowed 2 feet in 30 seconds.

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:20:13 +0000

@Mary A: Awesome! “RIGHTNOWMUSTHAVEITTOOWAAAAAH” LMAO!!!

By: Chris | Advice for Dad

Chris | Advice for Dad — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:22:36 +0000

You forgot to mention the box that these big toys come in, might as well cut out the middle man a buy a stack of boxes!

By: Sheliza

Sheliza — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:02:23 +0000

My boy loves our dogs toys. Talk about sanitary!! Luckily he does not put things in mouth. He also loves his dad’s business cards, a lotion bottle, a paper towel, and also the infamous remote control!