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Due to safety and quality issues, anyone who gives us made in china toys goes on not a real friend list. And we throw away those toys.

z9znz 4y ago
> And we throw away those toys Exactly. It's a surpreme waste, especially in a time where we should be working to reduce our global environmental impact.
zucked 4y ago
Whoa, do these people know about and understand your stance here? If someone goes to the trouble to get you a toy at all, I would hope you'd give them the benefit of the doubt before scratching them off the friend list.
- z9znz 4y ago
  I can't speak for the poster, but back in my young kids in suburbia life, it was common to get invited to kid parties for kids are hardly knew. And most parents wouldn't be bothered with getting a "real" gift. They would go buy whatever was < $10 at Walmart. And the people hosting the parties would also go to Walmart and buy the 99cent "goodie" bags to hand out to the guest kids. Those bags contained cheap plastic spider rings, plastic whistles which were so malformed that they didn't whistle, etc. Most of what was given and received would go into the garbage after everyone was home. It's an obscene waste of time, money, and resources. But now it feels like that reality is the common general reality, and that's what scares me.
  - zucked 4y ago
    This still happens. The toys are from Target and are <$30 in my circles and we usually try to make them legos or something that can be used again and not just thrown away, but there is rarely more thought goes into them than that. The gift bags are still a part of the song and dance, but I've seen some shift there, too - one party we were invited to, the family gave plants & seeds as the party favor.
  - fmajid 4y ago
    Small Lego boxes used to be available for $5, have outstanding replay value, and don’t have cadmium or lead unlike many Chinese toys. I used to stock up on them as party favors.
- dhdbdhe 4y ago
  Yes, our friends and relatives know that we health and safety concise. I also share articles about when widespread lead or other chemicals are found in cheap imported toys. It is usually the relatives who like to give cheap gifts. It seems incredibly rude to give such toys. It is like giving coke when someone doesn’t want their kids to drink it. And yes on incredible waste as sibling comment said.
- sitkack 4y ago
  The biggest reason to do this is because of the use of lead and cadmium, too extremely toxic substances that are routinely untested for in the toy supply-chain. Importers and large retailers should be required to test all their toys with an XRF gun. https://www.bruker.com/en/products-and-solutions/elemental-analyzers/handheld-xrf-spectrometers/how-xrf-works.html https://www.bruker.com/en/products-and-solutions/elemental-a...
  - zucked 4y ago
    I'm not doubting the reasoning behind not wanting those category of toys, I'm asking if OP did the polite thing and, you know, told the potential gift givers how they felt about cheap toys before writing them off as "non-friends".

z9znz 4y ago

> And we throw away those toys Exactly. It's a surpreme waste, especially in a time where we should be working to reduce our global environmental impact.

zucked 4y ago

Whoa, do these people know about and understand your stance here? If someone goes to the trouble to get you a toy at all, I would hope you'd give them the benefit of the doubt before scratching them off the friend list.

z9znz 4y ago
I can't speak for the poster, but back in my young kids in suburbia life, it was common to get invited to kid parties for kids are hardly knew. And most parents wouldn't be bothered with getting a "real" gift. They would go buy whatever was < $10 at Walmart. And the people hosting the parties would also go to Walmart and buy the 99cent "goodie" bags to hand out to the guest kids. Those bags contained cheap plastic spider rings, plastic whistles which were so malformed that they didn't whistle, etc. Most of what was given and received would go into the garbage after everyone was home. It's an obscene waste of time, money, and resources. But now it feels like that reality is the common general reality, and that's what scares me.
- zucked 4y ago
  This still happens. The toys are from Target and are <$30 in my circles and we usually try to make them legos or something that can be used again and not just thrown away, but there is rarely more thought goes into them than that. The gift bags are still a part of the song and dance, but I've seen some shift there, too - one party we were invited to, the family gave plants & seeds as the party favor.
- fmajid 4y ago
  Small Lego boxes used to be available for $5, have outstanding replay value, and don’t have cadmium or lead unlike many Chinese toys. I used to stock up on them as party favors.
dhdbdhe 4y ago
Yes, our friends and relatives know that we health and safety concise. I also share articles about when widespread lead or other chemicals are found in cheap imported toys. It is usually the relatives who like to give cheap gifts. It seems incredibly rude to give such toys. It is like giving coke when someone doesn’t want their kids to drink it. And yes on incredible waste as sibling comment said.
sitkack 4y ago
The biggest reason to do this is because of the use of lead and cadmium, too extremely toxic substances that are routinely untested for in the toy supply-chain. Importers and large retailers should be required to test all their toys with an XRF gun. https://www.bruker.com/en/products-and-solutions/elemental-analyzers/handheld-xrf-spectrometers/how-xrf-works.html https://www.bruker.com/en/products-and-solutions/elemental-a...
- zucked 4y ago
  I'm not doubting the reasoning behind not wanting those category of toys, I'm asking if OP did the polite thing and, you know, told the potential gift givers how they felt about cheap toys before writing them off as "non-friends".