Storing old toys...

mama&baby · September 2012

So for all of you mommies who are planning on having more kids and therefore saving toys, etc.... how are you storing them? We're putting everything in the basement (though I suppose we could use the attic as well) and obviously are putting clothes in bins, etc. We bought a huge new toy chest and decided that it was time to take down his jumperoo (I cried lol) and put the chest up in it's place.... so we threw the jumperoo and his bouncer in that big box. I don't want to take everything apart because I'm afraid we won't be able to put things back together properly. I guess I could take off cloth covers and put them all in a bag together... but I'm afraid of things getting lost.... etc. Anyways, now I'm rambling. So what are you doing? TIA

gracefulruby33 · September 2012

We took apart the swing a while ago and put it in its box into a loft above our garage. I am about to finally put away her playmat and just store that in the basement along with her clothes she's outgrown that are in large bins. I think I will probably leave her exersaucer put together and just put it in the basement and try to fit a couple of huge garbage bags around it to keep the dust away. Those are the biggies.

mbgreenwalt · September 2012

With DD1 we put the exersaucer in our spare room (aka junk room). The other baby supplies went in the crawl space. I never stored any toys because I got pg with #2 when DD1 turned one so I didn't see a point with storing them and digging them out later. They have a playroom in the basement and I just put everything down there. Now that we're done whatever is not being used goes out the door ASAP.

lkm2006 · September 2012

We have no extra room in our house so everything has been going in the attic. I really hate storing big things that can't go in containers up in the attic so we currently have an air conditioned storage unit that we are using.

pinsexl27 · September 2012

I still use my bbys pack n plays to keep her contained while i do stuff and she still uses her jumper and loves it, things like her bouncer and infant car seats r used for her dolls. She still uses all her old toys so were not storing ne of that yet. Her old clothes, socks, hats, etc were given away wit just a few special things saved in a plastic bin.

duffmaker · September 2012

Oh I just did this yesterday, and I cried too! Haha I'm such a softie... you should see me every single time I pack away DD's out-grown clothes.

We have a storage unit that's accessible via our deck. We just got her convertible car seat so I had a massive box from that which I used for her out-grown activity things. I have amazing, jigsaw-like packing skills. I managed to fit the jumperoo (I broke ours down to 7 pieces), bouncer, tummy mat/activity center, bumbo & tray, and her light up tummy time toy bar oh and a few dds and ends like body supports/strap protectors/carriers etc. The toy bar had a few screws on the feet (I took those off to fit it better) I just used a sharpie to label the feet left and right and put the screws into a labeled bag and tossed it all in. I also bagged up the covers for the jumper, bouncer and also the mat part of her tummy time center. I have one of those expandable file folders that I keep every. single. instruction manual we get into... so I don't have any worries about figuring out all the gear again when it's time. I keep boxes for these exact purposes so I'll box up the swing in it's original one in probably a week or two. As for the bassinet, I just disassembled it and wrapped it in trash bags.

Clothes go in individual bins based on size, get labeled and they are stacked in one of her two closets. Come Christmas time I'll pack up all her baby toys and probably throw those into storage too, and I'm also thinking about using those vacuum flat storage bags for her clothes and blankets to save more room once we have another because we'll need that second closet.

I'm a bit of a pack rat, so we're saving everything (Most everything, that would be out-grown in the first year, I bought gender neutral to use again) except the travel system, which is fine by me because if I had known how useless that stroller would have been I would have forgone it altogether and purchased an infant seat and a snap-and-go frame instead. Now I know for the next one!

Nwlywed07 · September 2012

Clothing is stored by size in large plastic bins and are stacked inside of his closet currently waiting to see if we have anymore boys. However, I do go through all of the clothes first and if they are stained they get tossed and if they were never used or not something I really like, they get donated.

For toys, we disassembled the swing, exersaucer, jumpers, bouncers, and activity mats and labeled any screws in baggies. I then taped the baggies to the leg of whatever toy is belonged to and tossed it in the box that the new convertible car seat came in. I'm selling the stroller part of our travel system so I don't have to store it. As far as smaller toys like teethers, soft texture items, they are still in his play box downstairs. He still likes to play with them sometimes. Eventually they will go in a plastic tub and probably stored as well in the closet.

smilelari · September 2012

Between our 2 kids, we stored the big stuff (car seat, jumperoo, etc) in the crawl space. Clothes, I stored in the crawl space in big bags until we found it out was a girl and then I donated all of it to a friend. Toys are kind of a jumble in our house anyways, so they just stayed where they are.

LittleMommaBlueHen · September 2012

clizh:
I have one of those expandable file folders that I keep every. single. instruction manual we get into... so I don't have any worries about figuring out all the gear again when it's time.

I do the same thing. It has already turned out to be helpful.

FallFabulous · September 2012

All DS clothes are in Rubbermaid bins, sorted by sizes. I've put all the other baby stuff, such as nursing pillow, toys, Bumbo, etc either in bins or organized in our spare room, as I don't want to have to hunt down all the baby stuff when I become pregnant again.

All my maternity clothes, books and my snoogle are in that closet as well. :

All larger items, such as bassinet, stroller, car seat, etc are in the basement.

hway24 · September 2012

All clothes are in plastic containers. I take the cloth covers off of everything I can and put them in the plastic containers as well. We took apart all the large items, we still have all the instruction manuals and they're not too difficult to figure out. I still want to find something to put them in or a way to cover them, so they don't get ruined. Right now everything is in the garage, but it'll eventually go in the attic

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