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Don’t forget noisy. Have you considered an Otamatone?
by mcphage 10mo ago
Don’t forget noisy. Have you considered an Otamatone?
- pavel_lishin 10mo agoThe ideal "fuck you, parents" present must be noisy, and yet must require no batteries. Drums & cymbals are a good choice, as is a vuvuzela or an Aztec death whistle.
- bdangubic 10mo agothe absolute best fuck you present is no present at all, there is nothing parents like more than kids that have nothing to do
- tasuki 10mo agoAs a parent: no. We have way more toys than necessary, and yet keep getting more from all sides. All the parents I know have the same situation.
- pavel_lishin 10mo agoThere are five stuffed tigers on the floor of our living room right now, liberated from their packages. There are 37 more in the child's bedroom.
- bdangubic 10mo agoI am 51 and have never (nor will ever) buy a toy for a human - pets only
- oblio 10mo agoI'm confused. Are you bragging that you never gifted a toy in 51 years?
- bdangubic 10mo agoaha, I am. and everyone should strive to be like me
- oblio 10mo agoI guess on what you define as a toy. Is a Lego Technics set a toy? Is a model plane that requires assembly a toy? Is a drone a toy? Also... if you ever meet a family with a baby or a toddler, I guess you'd gift them clothes?
- bdangubic 10mo agoCant believe I have to answer these questions but here we go - lego is a toy - model plane that requires assembly is very likely a toy - some drones a toy if you meet a family with a baby or a toddler do not buy them a fucking toy, it is simple as that. it pollutes the planet and brings nothing good to anyone, not a child, not a parent and not you wasting money on stupid shit
- vel0city 10mo agoAs a parent I largely agree with this take. Most toys people buy my kids are essentially cheap plastic trash that won't last a season of interest but emotional toil to try and get rid of. If you must get something outside of a donation to education savings, please either get a relevant book, something genuinely useful, or some kind of consumable. A pair of fun socks. A good a new backpack. Tickets to a sports game or a museum. A bag of snacks. A few sheets of stickers. New legitimate sports equipment (if they're into the sport and could actually use it). All of these are far better than some cheap plastic noise maker.
- oblio 10mo agoThe things I listed aren't "cheap plastic noise makers". You can get good toys, most people don't bother. They wouldn't bother with good snacks (they'll probably buy a huge bag of gummy bears or lollipops) or good socks (they'll get some funny 100% polyester socks). Oh, and "few sheets of stickers" are also pollution, they're basically 100% plastic.
- pavel_lishin 10mo agoDo you want to expand on that?
- bdangubic 10mo agofor kids, only money for college/investment fund. nothing else, ever
- saagarjha 10mo agoI sure hope this was not your childhood
- bdangubic 10mo agoyou hope my childhood was filled with endless stream of useless play-with-them-2-hours-then-get-the-next-one toys followed by phones and tablets when I was strong enough to hold them? very happy to report my childhood was not wasted that way
- saagarjha 10mo agoMaybe you might have been a little more pleasant if you had wasted a little more of your childhood.
- losvedir 10mo agoAre you saying you only give pets as gifts?
- bigstrat2003 10mo agoA vuvuzela is mean. I'm not even related to you (I think), and I want to disown you for that suggestion.