Ugh. I am drowning in baby toys. More accurately, tripping over them, stepping on them in the middle of the night, and feeling defeated trying to clean them up only to have them dumped out again.
I feel like I keep donating and selling baby items, but the deluge has not yet been tamed. Any tips on how to tame the baby chaos that has taken over my house?
I'm sure it's not fun for the kids either, to always be living in a jumbled mess of toys.
I have tried rotating toys, but it only half works, and I have lovely IKEA storage cabinets with bins, but Bean likes to pretend he's a garbage man and dump it all out. Help!
Drowning in toys
November 4th, 2010 at 03:25 pm
November 4th, 2010 at 03:36 pm 1288885005
Or if toy x has been played with already put it up higher so it is done being played with for the day.
November 4th, 2010 at 05:03 pm 1288890207
Really having less means there is less temptation to dump them, and then the overwhelming feeling of living in a dump.
Enlist the kids help in sorting out make a simple rule (that you try not to break) IE for every 1 kept one has to go. (or more, whatever)
Then make sure you enlist the kids help in cleaning every day, and set a date to go through the stuff again. (if they can dump, they can fill)
In my family the extended gift givers have started to notice that nothing stays long unless it is high quality and worth it, so they tend to buy less stuff, and some of them aim to make what they do buy high quality.
November 5th, 2010 at 12:18 am 1288916328
November 6th, 2010 at 03:09 pm 1289056149
Each evening my daughter and Ally put everything away. I am usually in bed, but I hear them singing, Cleanup, cleanup....some song from some kid show and the livingroom is clean when I get up!