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Confession POLL: Getting rid of toys
I got rid of one of DS's annoying toys the other day. My aunt got it for him for Christmas, and I feel guilty. This thing was awful, though. It was a Crayola Toy Story Glow Board:
First of all, it's for older kids, ages 6-12. My aunt got it because she knew DS loves Toy Story and drawing/coloring. The first time we opened this and played with it, I knew it was going to be trouble. You put a drawing under a piece of plastic and trace it with the glow markers. Then you flip the paper and trace a similar, but slightly different picture on a second piece of plastic. Then you turn the flashing lights on under the plastic and it lights up the drawings to make it look like it's moving.
One of the worst parts - it doesn't come with anything to clean/wipe the marker off the plastic with! We had to wet a paper towel to wipe the marker off, then get a dry paper towel to dry it off in order to draw again.
It's a total PITA! We tried hiding it, but DS kept finding it. Then he gets annoyed because he can't get the paper in and out. He needs something to wipe it off with..yadda, yadda. It has brought nothing but frustration to all of us since Christmas.
Hopefully someone at the thrift store will find it fun! 
I feel guilty, but DS has a gazillion other toys he can play with.
So...Does anyone else have a toy confession? Have you ever gotten rid of a toy? Maybe hid one that you found annoying, or "lost the batteries?" ::wink, wink::
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Re: Confession POLL: Getting rid of toys
Ooh, ooh! I could write an entire blog about this topic. But I will confine myself to my all-time least favorite toy.
My least favorite toy is one of those books where every page is a different jigsaw puzzle. Don't get me wrong -- I love both books and puzzles, and I think all kids should have lots of both of them. BUT THESE TWO THINGS SHOULD NEVER BE COMBINED!
My kids never once did anything other than take all the pieces out of EVERY page and mix them up. Then, there's no way a preschool-aged child is going to have the patience to sort through 50 or 60 puzzle pieces and figure out which ones belong to which puzzle and put them all back together without mom's help. And you just can't make a really good, sturdy jigsaw puzzle that a small kid can really work with if you're binding it, along with 4 or 5 others, in a book. The pieces are too flimsy and hard to work with.
After struggling with a few of these books over the years, I finally rounded them up and donated them to a women's shelter along with other toys that weren't working out for us. I almost felt like I was doing the shelter a disservice by giving them the stupid puzzle-book toy!
And, if your child ever receives a jigsaw puzzle book from me as a present, you'll know you've seriously irritated me and that this is my revenge.
OMG, yes! I forgot about these. DS got two of them for Christmas too. A Sesame Street one and a Tonka one. After playing with (and growling at) the Sesame Street one for about a week, we didn't even open the Tonka one. We donated them both. Talk about awful!!
LMAO We have one of those as well. I took all the pieces out, put them in ziploc baggies and then taped them to the pages. She's only allowed to have one baggy open at a time. I was tired of putting all 5 puzzles back together.
That is kind of why I hate this puzzle set:
The pieces for all four puzzles come in one box. So, we spend the first 20 minutes sorting out all of the pieces for one puzzle and keeping them separate from the other puzzles. grr.
I felt really bad getting rid of the set of play utensils/plates, etc., that my sister bought DD. But it was really annoying because there was a place setting in each color and DD would flip out because they didn't match. Plus the pans were all too small for any of the play food.
I put it all away on Christmas Eve and Santa brought her a new set from Ikea.
I can't stand any Dora or Princess toys. I told my mom to never buy anything PINK, if it's something that comes in a gender neutral color. But she does it anyhow! She bought a singing princess potty chair that I never even toook out of the box. I told her M didn't like it. It's still sitting in the garage, along with the pink trike.
I sometimes never give my DD the crap MIL sends her. It's like the gift with purchase crap from the hallmark store or whatever. It goes straight to goodwill.
When she was younger and I could get away with it, I'd give her a toy without putting the batteries in it ever. But now she's on to me and she asks if it needs batteries.
Haha. DD got that for Christmas too..... I "accidentally" left it at grandma's house for her to play with it there.
Gosh, I hate to say it, but Transformers. They are impossible to transform- it took my husband and his buddy TWO HOURS to figure one out. How is my 5 yr old going to do it? He loves them but I keep putting them in a bin and up in a closet cause I hate when he gets them undone and get put them back.
Road Rippers. Little cars that have three buttons for songs, engine noises, and ignition noises. I think the creators are deaf cause those things are loud and grating.
Okay, loud vehicles with buttons that play music and make annoying noises are also on my list of terrible toys. You know what kind of cars are good for little kids? Tonka, matchbox, and Hotwheels, that's what. Cars that go when you push them, and that's it. Once you put a stupid noise-making button on a car, it ceases to be a car and becomes a thing with a button that makes noise.
If you give each of my kids a hot wheels car, they'll instantly be on the floor, zooming the car around, inventing a personality for the car, coming up with an adventure for the car to have, or making the cars race each other. If you give my kids a car with noise buttons, they'll sit on the floor and push the button a zillion times until they're bored. Then they'll ask me for a snack.