How are you storing old toys?

NYCred

How are you storing all of DC's old toys, swings, bouncers, etc? 

Since we're in a small apartment, we didn't have room to keep any of the boxes that things came in.  Now that DD has outgrown many of the toys she first played with, it's time to pack them up and drive them to my grandparents' house for storage.  Question is, what's the best way to store them?  Bunches of big plastic boxes? 

And how are you storing clothes DC has outgrown? 

 thanks!

hudsaunt1

I got the vacuum bags for the clothes as I need to get them all shrunk down before I put them in the plastic tubs.  Her toys and chairs will go in either plastic tubs or garbage bags

IckyThump

We saved the boxes for the big ticket items that we'll use again (swing, Exersaucer, etc.), so we'll just pack them back up. As for the clothes, I'm using large Tupperware tubs.

HeddieMcGee

I trash the toys he has grown out of. It sounds terrible, but we will be overflowing with them if I do not get into the habit of letting go.

The bouncer frame is in our attic and the swing will go there when I finally figure out how to take it apart! I know this doesn't help you though.

  I will trash the exersaucer when he is done with it, as well as the door bouncer.

As for his clothes, I trashed a lot of them too, especially the boy specific ones (we have a lot of gender neutral clothes, which is my preference). The ones I am keeping are still in boxes but I will be vaccum sealing them as well. He is growing out of them so fast at this point that I stopped trying ot be organized about it until he levels out a little bit.

blueshirt2003

We stored my oldest child's toys and clothes in plastic tubs from wal-mart in a garage. When we got them out for our baby we had to wash all of the clothes because they all had that awful "storage smell" to them.