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Men can be a$$holes sorta nbr

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I am trying to do some things to get ready for the boys to move in together and other general chores that I wanted to have done before the Christmas season.  Part of this was to clean out toys that were broken/unused to make room for the boys to move in together, and make room for Christmas toys coming in.  I got rid of 5 bags of junk, that my 6 year old helped me sift through.  Put them out in the garage for garbage day. 

Well, I just went out to the garage for something in the freezer and there is dumba$$ husband going through the bags because he didn't feel that I looked through well enough and already had a pile of things to bring back in the house!!!  I said what in the hell do you need to go through a bunch of bags and lug in a bunch of stuff that they will not play with?

He thinks if it's not completely and totally destroyed it is still good enough to be in the house.

What pisses me off the most, is that if he didn't spend most of the time that he was in this house sleeping or sitting on his a$$ watching tv, maybe he would have a little more say in what goes on around here.  He looked at and walked around the huge pile of toys that sat in our landing for MONTHS and just pretended it wasn't there!!! 

If I have to clean it up, I get to throw it out.  That is all I have to say about that.

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  • TiffanyTheMomTiffanyTheMom member

    Ditto, since I'm the one who weeds through the toy room every few months to get rid of all the broken/lost peices/destroyed things. DH looks at the garbage bag full of toys every time I've finished and asks, "What's wrong with that? They liked this. Who cares if it's broken, they still like it."

    No, you don't get it. We are not so poor that the kids have to play with the same crap they were playing with when they turned one year old, frickin retard.

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  • taggiecbtaggiecb member
    it  makes me the most mad that he didn't trust me to make the right decisions about what to get rid of.  He just come in the house all proud of himself for findng about 3 things out of the 5 bags of stuff, like he proved himself right for going through it.
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  • WannaBeCrunchyMamaWannaBeCrunchyMama member
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    I am trying to do some things to get ready for the boys to move in together and other general chores that I wanted to have done before the Christmas season.  Part of this was to clean out toys that were broken/unused to make room for the boys to move in together, and make room for Christmas toys coming in.  I got rid of 5 bags of junk, that my 6 year old helped me sift through.  Put them out in the garage for garbage day. 

    Well, I just went out to the garage for something in the freezer and there is dumba$$ husband going through the bags because he didn't feel that I looked through well enough and already had a pile of things to bring back in the house!!!  I said what in the hell do you need to go through a bunch of bags and lug in a bunch of stuff that they will not play with?

    He thinks if it's not completely and totally destroyed it is still good enough to be in the house.

    What pisses me off the most, is that if he didn't spend most of the time that he was in this house sleeping or sitting on his a$$ watching tv, maybe he would have a little more say in what goes on around here.  He looked at and walked around the huge pile of toys that sat in our landing for MONTHS and just pretended it wasn't there!!! 

    If I have to clean it up, I get to throw it out.  That is all I have to say about that.

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  • MeganellenMeganellen member
    Would it make your husband feel better if you were to give the toys to salvation army or somewhere like that? I can't imagine throwing away toys just because my kids don't use them. I know if they are broken that obviously you would want to toss them.
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  • ~adamwife~~adamwife~ member

    I'm with your husband on this one.  I don't throw things away if they are still usable - I either donate them to Goodwill or repurpose them.  Broken stuff is one thing, but unused things can find a new home somewhere else.

    Please reconsider throwing away five garbage bags full of items.  You may be able to donate half of those things and save space in your local landfill.

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  • TiffanyTheMomTiffanyTheMom member
    I always donate toys if they're in good condition. Some of them aren't worthy of becoming dog chewies, though.
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  • taggiecbtaggiecb member

    99.9% of them were broken.  He has the "oh it's just missing an arm they can still play with it" or "I am sure they can find something to do with the game pieces of a game that was ripped/destroyed/chewed on by the dog" or, don't throw out that crayon there's still some of it left" (even though it's too small for even the kids to hold)  And best yet, "don't get rid of that miniscule piece off a toy because I still may be able to find the rest of it and put it back together" 

    I was right in my decisions.  My kids don't need to play with broken toys, and they just dump them toys on the floor in order to get to the ones they actually want and that aren't ravaged by time or dog.

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  • ~adamwife~~adamwife~ member

    Holy Cow!  All five bags were full of broken toys.  If my children took care of their toys in that way I would whoop their butts until they learned how to value their stuff more.  No wonder your husband was upset and rooting through the bags, he's probably mad that he works hard to buy the toys and your kids aren't taking care of them.  I'd want to salvage what I could too!

    This is precisely why we limit the number of toys my kids are allowed to have out at one time.  When they only play with one thing at a time and then put it away, they take better care of it.  When stuff just piles up on the floor, things get broken.

    In case you're interested, you can save all of your broken crayons (I just keep mine in a jar in my kitchen) and when you get enough of them you just melt them in the oven into new crayons.  You can use mini cupcake pans (just line them first) and they make awesome toddler-sized crayons. 

     

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  • taggiecbtaggiecb member
    well, not all of it was toys, some of it was scraps of paper, empty packages, instuctions for toys that they didn't need anymore, but yea it was a lot of broken stuff.  They have too much and are spoiled rotten, and don't appreciate their toys, my oldest son is worse than my youngest, but they are also used a lot and some were just wore out, and a lot were victims of the dog, who has cost us more in things he's chewed than he is worth, but still.  It was a lot of waste, and I was sick of looking at it.  We are more careful now to buy appropriate toys for the kids and don't go overboard so they get more use out of the toys they have.  And when you can buy a whole package of crayola crayons at the dollar store for $1, I am not going to save the nubs from old crayons.
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