Upon further consideration...

[Jack-Jack]

As I walk through the war zone which is my house, I ponder the poor choices I have made in the toy purchases I have made for my children. Usually made while drinking on-line or in an exceptionally good mood, the following decisions have proven...ill-advised once I've come to my senses:

1. One thousand marbles
2. Two-hundred dominoes (two sets)
3. 400 piece K'nex (two sets)
4. Rock'n Barbie Lectric Guitar (with microphone)
5. I-Dog
6. recorder
7. triangle
8. drum (some sweet person bought this for us)
9. skate board
10. aluminum baseball bat (I must have been on drugs)
11. golf clubs with real balls (I must have been drunk and on drugs).

What are some of your regrettable toy decisions?

 

[LaraK]

I bought my son a light up sward at the Circus on Friday...he's three and a half and a terror....

The Wiggles Guitar and Drum somehow got "broken" pretty quickly..

 

[jeankeri]

Legos, but my dogs like to eat them, so not a total loss...

 

[KirstenB]

Legos, those suckers hurt at 3 am when you trip over them!

 

[Rafiki Rafiki Rafiki]

electric piano
karaoke machine
hungry hungry hippos


Oh, and the Barbie microphone. I can never find it when I need it to chat.

 

[KristaTX]

3. 400 piece K'nex (two sets)

Um. . .what the. . .does that mean you bought your kids 2 boxes of 400 kleenexes??

 

[karynnix]

I bought DS a drum set for Christmas...he also has an accordian...and a harmonica...and a tambourine.

 

[Aye Sea Turtles]

Magnetix (those sets with the different magnet shapes and steel balls). I have different colored/shaped magnets stuck to every metal surface in my house and every time I vacuum the couch I round up about a dozen steel balls.

 

[mirthmaiden]

As I walk through the war zone which is my house, I ponder the poor choices I have made in the toy purchases I have made for my children. Usually made while drinking on-line or in an exceptionally good mood, the following decisions have proven...ill-advised once I've come to my senses:

1. One thousand marbles
2. Two-hundred dominoes (two sets)
3. 400 piece K'nex (two sets)
4. Rock'n Barbie Lectric Guitar (with microphone)
5. I-Dog
6. recorder
7. triangle
8. drum (some sweet person bought this for us)
9. skate board
10. aluminum baseball bat (I must have been on drugs)
11. golf clubs with real balls (I must have been drunk and on drugs).

What are some of your regrettable toy decisions?

Don't say you haven't gotten some mileage out of #4.

 

[Jack-Jack]

Um. . .what the. . .does that mean you bought your kids 2 boxes of 400 kleenexes??

It's like erector sets. Pronounced like "connects".

 

[wardfamily1]

Hot Wheels. I need to either get rid of the cars or put carpet in DS's room. I'm one car away from ending up in a full body cast.

 

[Jack-Jack]

Magnetix (those sets with the different magnet shapes and steel balls). I have different colored/shaped magnets stuck to every metal surface in my house and every time I vacuum the couch I round up about a dozen steel balls.

HOW COULD I FORGET ABOUT THESE???? Yes, I had those too. I hear that, if swallowed, those magnets are a real problem.

Don't say you haven't gotten some mileage out of #4.

Some. I'm a rock'n'roll legend in my house.

 

[KristaTX]

It's like erector sets. Pronounced like "connects".

Ah, okay. Never heard of them before, but it sure looked like some slang way of saying or spelling "kleenex" to me .

 

[sharlon]

A friend gave my DS2 her kids' old Lucky Ducks game. I think that is what it's called. It's got like 15 ducks and when you push the button it quacks constantly. DS LOVES that duck sound. He will turn it on and walk out of the room. Not to mention the stepping on the ducks.
Another friend found a connect 4 type game that is a dog and you put the checkers on his tail and it flips them into the game. Not sure what it is called, but those checkers are constantly on the floor.

 

[Jack-Jack]

Ah, okay. Never heard of them before, but it sure looked like some slang way of saying or spelling "kleenex" to me .

um, that would be kl'nex.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

Most trips to the Dollar Tree result in regrettable toy purchases. The worst was a sword that when moved would make a mettalic "Swishy" noise, like it was being swung against another or put into a sheath. The thing would make that noise if you walked by the toy box without even touching it. Scared the begeebers outta me on several occasions. You would think that it coming from the Dollar Tree would mean it would break in a few months, oh no that suckka held on for at least three years until it mysteriously disappeared into the darkness...

 

[KristaTX]

um, that would be kl'nex.

I'm calling them k'nexes from now on .

 

[DisneyfeverTN]

Two of my biggest regrets are huge boxes of Legos to make things like pirate ships and transformers.

 

[Duchie]

The toy gun that makes the laser sounds when you "shoot" it. The batteries "fell out" <ahem> on that one pretty quickly.

 

[SunKat]

When my dd11 was younger, I made a poor choice in buying her one of those bead sets that has 1,645,000 (give or take a few) beads in the kit. She used about 50 of the beads making bracelets and such. She spilled the rest.