Little People and Weebles Toys

I am keeping for now. My 6 year old still plays with them. Not often, but I love that imaginative play and I don't want to move him on from that stage before he's really done. Yes they make a mess but that's not a good enough reason to get rid of them when the kids are still interested in them, IMO.

The Fisher Price Little People are sticking around. My mom and I searched high and low for the ones that didn't whirl and scream and beep at you for my first child. I didn't want things like the Farm that Mooed every 3 seconds every time you touched it. You can't get what I have now. They were going out of print when we tracked them down. Those will be Grandma's house toys when or if my 3 have kids of their own. If we hadn't put that much effort into finding the quiet ones I might think other wise. I hate the new noisy sets!
We never had many Weebles. Some went to my parents house and because Grandma toys at their house for my kids and cousins when we needed more room.

My mom kept our lego and Fisher price and that has been handed down through all of us. So that was over 20 kids who got use from them - I've ended up with it all, and it still looks new.

I keep their favorite toys that are classics.

As a person who at one point had six children 11 and under, it is very vital you teach them to pick up after themselves. In my home if you are old enough to make a mess you are old enough to clean the mess.

A week or two before birthdays and about a two to three months before Christmas, I have the kids go through their toys and pick the ones they are willing to give away and/or throw away because we always had to make room for new things by getting rid of old things.

The kids are now all grown and they are still really great about gifting things away and throwing things out. The main little toys that were always about were Lego, Barbie accessories and Matchbox and Hotwheel cars. I must also confess there were occasions I would step on something, hurt my foot and then angrily toss it. Great times and great memories. It flies by so fast. Enjoy them while they are young, laugh often, and have fun.

Depends on how old your kids are. When mine outgrew their toys I put them in put them in storage for a while. I ended up donating all the fisher price little people old school wooden toys to a nursery school a friend worked at. I was happy they ended up somewhere they would be used and loved but honestly I should have just donated them when the kids outgrew them.

pass along everything not beloved.
i've still got a few of my boys' favorites in the basement (and all of their books on the bookshelves.) this is for me, not them.
they're 25 and 30.
you're already stressed over mess and clutter. your kids aren't very interested in them.
i think you know the answer to this one.
khairete
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Unlike most of my DS's friends from school, we don't live in a McMansion. It's a fine house and we have space but clutter kind of grates on my nerves. Therefore, I would donate his toys and books once he outgrew them to make space for the ones he was interested in. I practically had to build another room to store all the Pokémon cards. Which, even though now he's 15, he refuses to get rid of.

I often include him in the packing and donating so he could see how other kids will benefit from his generosity. I know that may sound brutal but they were the toys and books he was ready to part with.

It's a good thing he's cute. I will admit there are times I look down at his pinky and expect to see myself wrapped around it.

enjoy them!!! :-) S.

In your case, I'd say 'pass them along'. Kids are all different in how they play with toys. My sister and I would play Little People, acting out 'stories' and such. When my son was 4 or so, we bought some of the vintage ones (like the kind I grew up with) and you know, Kiddo never really took to them. So, out to the garage sale they went. We still have the trailers/camping sets, and have a little cache of toys in basement storage for visiting youngsters. Like Suz, they are more for us adults (I like to have something novel to pull out for younger kids) than my son. We have the space to store it, but it sounds like you want to downsize... so do that.

I got rid of it when they moved on to a suitable replacement. For my kids that was superhero action figures. There was some overlap, and for a while Spider-Man lived in the Little People house and the Bat Mobile was stored in the Little People Garage. I don't have a large house, I couldn't store stuff we weren't really using. Plus, we spent more time doing activities outside the home, so we didn't require that many toys (although we always had way more than we needed).

My boys had favorite little people toys. They are married now and having families of their own. I kept the little people western town , castle, pirate ship and the people, knights, pirates, horses etc that went with them. They are all having babies and next generation will be playing with these toys. I also saved story books. I've been divvying those up amongst kids. We have legos, Lincoln logs, tinker toys and board games. If your kids have out grown things get them out of the rooms. Put or give away.

The only toys I saved from my girls childhood was The Little People (not the arc, and circus toys that they went into etc) just the people (this also includes the Disney princesses that are close to little people size and the other keeper was the Toobeez (life size building kit). Check it out if you are not familiar with it...http://www.toobeez.com and you are looking for an awesome Christmas gift that will get a ton of use.

I'm not typically a saver, everything else was donated (rocking horse, legos, Lincoln logs, books, puzzles, board games and even the American Girl dolls/accessories) but the little people and toobeez were just special and they are plastic so we can sterilize them someday and they will be as good as new.

I think I have a few little people in the toy box still but the garage and such are gone. There are the metal Tonka toys that are still in the box for the next generation or two to play with. My son was the type that if he looked at a plastic toy as a kid it broke. So I invested in the metal trucks and they are still in my home. The trunk has been shipped and stored and is still with me 43 years later. One day soon I will go through it and part out the toys to my son and my daughter. I also have to give my son his Star Wars toys now that he is older. There are also the Dr. Seuss books in a series called I can read it myself with very sturdy covers that were never read due to our moving around.

It just depends on how you look at things for play or for nostalgia and if you have the room to keep them until their kids come along.

Good luck on your decision.

the other S.

Separate the toys in two boxes or totes. Put one away for 2-3 months and rotate with the other box every few months. This way they have 'new' toys to play with every few months. They won't get as bored with their toys this way.

I got rid of all my little people when my youngest was a baby. The kids just rarely played with them, and I had a giant bin full. I've gotten rid of almost everything they don't use on a somewhat regular basis (at least monthly). It feels good to not hang on to stuff. Pass them on.

Sounds like you need to organize their room. It is really helpful to have only a few toys out at a time. Then every couple of weeks you take and switch them out. So they have new toys to play with.

I think it's always a good idea to downsize and get rid of things that are not being used full time. I am doing this now and I wish I would have done better with it when my kids were younger. I did at one time, while the kids were little and on a 2 week vacation with my mom, do a MAJOR downsize and when they came back everything was gone except for what they really loved. It was sooooo nice! It's much easier to keep up with a few things then a million of things and it helps the kids to appreciate what they have and not that they have so much. Good luck!

Their kids teach them to pick up their toys get rid of some toys

for those ages, yes, pass them along