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Toys for kids are absolutely a necessity in most households with kids.
by boplicity 9mo ago
Toys for kids are absolutely a necessity in most households with kids.
- darth_avocado 9mo agoOnly when you can afford them.
- baobabKoodaa 9mo agoWhy does your child need 34 or 35 toys? She can be happy with just one or two toys.
- queuebert 9mo ago"Back in my day, we had a cardboard box and a stick and didn't complain ..."
- johnnyanmac 9mo agoNow you'd get CPS called for the stick. Mostly sarcastic, but I don't think it's a hot take to realize that the curtain has shifted substantially over the decades in terms of how to raise a child.
- dpark 9mo ago“Why don’t you just live like you’re destitute? So ungrateful?!” How many toys do you have?
- olyjohn 9mo agoSo many that I can't play with all of them, most of them are broken, and I don't have time to fix them, so I get really depressed because they aren't usable when I want to play with them. Now I'm trying to get rid of most of them.
- barbazoo 9mo agoPeople could save so much money if they bought used instead of new more often, especially toys. It's crazy how much garbage we produce basically just because we literally don't share our toys.
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- thatfrenchguy 9mo agoI think you mean, spend $0 instead, given how many folks are donating toys on local facebook groups
- johnnyanmac 9mo agoIn the grand scheme of things, toys are cheap and kids are huge influences on parents. I don't think pinching pennies on toys will change much unless that toy is an iPhone.
- sudobash1 9mo agoI have come away from Christmas with almost the opposite conclusion. I have 3 young kids, and I notice almost an inverse correlation between the number of toys around and how contently they play. The ideal number of toys is non-zero, but my experience suggests that it is pretty low.
- elevation 9mo agoToys/gifts are important, but you'll find most of what you need (baby toys to bicycles) for pennies on the dollar at your local yard sale, estate sale, or free as hand-me-downs from an older family. I would hesitate to include the retail prices for these kinds of goods to a CPI type metric because the price are incredibly flexible.