There are times that I realize my children are very spoiled.
Sure I like to blame it on the grandparents (who do a great job of spoiling)
but we are also to blame. When my son was a baby, I must have bought every
outfit I saw for him to wear. We didn’t have much money then so I’m not sure
how we afforded it all but it was ridiculous. We had a garage sale, I’ve given
clothes away to friends, donated them and I STILL have so many boy clothes! You’d think my
daughter would have too much but her amount is fairly reasonable. The problem
is not just clothes, but toys too. My son has every tiny little cheap toy you can
think of and my daughter just refuses to play with hers. She prefers toilets or
trashcans and the pantry items. She’s out of control. Anyway, we’ve started
storing the older toys that don’t get played with as much and they haven’t
missed one toy. So instead of just hoarding these barely used toys and clothes,
we decided to donate them to the local free store. There’s really no sense in
these boxes just taking up space – especially when I know they will be get MORE
toys and clothes next week. My mom has a daycare so we are also going to be
taking some toys there so she can rotate them out every once in a while too. I
really thought my son would be more upset about this but he wasn’t. Obviously,
he didn’t care about the clothes are working on being too small anyway but he
wasn’t upset about the toys either. Some toys he said were “silly baby toys”
anyway. I admit, I’m part of the problem. I keep everything…. I mean everything.
My son had these toys that I thought “oh my gosh, we have to keep that. He
smiled for the first time playing with that.” or “Remember this one?? He did
this… or that…” Whatever the case was, I apparently thought it was a momentous
occasion in our lives and we HAD to keep that toy. I’ve gotten over that –
somewhat. It was tough, but those bags and bags of baby clothes and toys are
finally going. Of course, I kept some of his favorite things and outfits (too
many I’m sure) but the rest I’m ready to part with… I think.
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