what toys will you save

[clori]

What toys do you have that you will save after your kids have outgrown them. My kids are 6 and 10. As the youngest outgrows toys we tend to give away the usable toys. We have two fully furnished fisher price loving family dollhouses that will be saved in time, all of our American Girl dolls plus all of the matchbox or hotwheels cars. We don't have many legos but if we did those would also be saved. While I won't save every book I will save some books as well.

 

[McKelly]

I think I will save all of DS's Thomas the Tank wooden railway pieces and my DD's American Girl dolls.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Thomas the Tank engine (we have the original stuff from the 90's with the real clickety clack track). It's great to take out if we're watching someone at our house.

DD - We have a musical lamb that was special to her. We'll also save her My Twinn doll and her American Girl doll.

I've also saved a number of "timeless" quality children's books in bins.

 

[thunderbug548]

Right now we'll save all of our Thomas stuff and Legos. We have tons of Legos! We also have a bunch of duplicate Cars unopened just waiting for a future grandchild...we're only 35 and our oldest is 7 so hopefully we'll be waiting a LONG time for that! LOL

 

[MichelleinMaine]

My kids are 9 and 14. I've saved their Fisher Price Little People sets and Brio/Thomas trains. (These bins get hauled out if we have little kids visiting, all the kids get in playing with them and usually a fight to put them back in the basement. )

Currently still played with, but will save DD's American Girl stuff and DS's Legos. (I remember when he was 3 wondering if he'd actually get our "money's worth" out of those... still playing with them 11 years later- I guess so!)

I've also saved a few "gotta have favorites" from when they were little (a wind up Ernie DS loved as an infant, a wooden ball toy DD loved.)

 

[blanq]

None DS is now 16 and I never considered saving any of his toys. I guess I have no desire to store them. I did save a couple of his favorite books, but only because they really don't take up much space.

 

[MSSANDRA]

All his toy story toys are stored away. The legos, wood trains, hot wheels and a few other traditional toys are now being enjoyed by DGS.

 

[LisaInNc]

I am only saving her favorite stuffed dog and one little stuffed toy she carried as a toddler. Everything else is going to be sold or given away. The Thomas stuff is going on ebay this summer. I still have my Barbies from when I was a kid, I will keep those but she doesn't care about hers, never got into them.

I am trying to destash and not be such a horder so it's all going!

Lisa

 

[rhpools]

My DD is 9 and she still has a TY puppy dog that she got when she was born. It was the one and only thing she was ever really attached to.

I still have all of my wind up toys from when I was a kid. My mom was a big saver.

 

[Jennifer in MI]

We have a bunch that we're keeping. I bought mostly quality toys that will last for generations. My parents have kept a few toys from my childhood and visiting them is GREAT because they have toys for my kids.

1. Kapla Blocks (have you seen these? They're GREAT!)
2. Legos, Erector Sets (old, metal ones), K'nex
3. Little People
4. Wooden Marble Run
5. Darda Race track set
6. Playmobil sets (I think we'll only keep a couple full sets)
7. Handmade toys made by my dad - dollhouse, HUGE train set, rocking horse

I'm sure there'll be more as my dd. gets older. Right now she's only got one doll we'd consider keeping - her Bitty Baby.

Basically, I'll keep as many as can fit onto shelves and look neat.

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

I have 5 kids and can't imagine ever not having children in my home so I will save a lot of the quality ones. Right now I have a large plastic bin full of the outgrown ones. It includes
Fisher Price Little People
some favorite board books
one of those baby phones with the dial

I will also save my kids' wooden blocks, they still get hours of play time, they are the ones that are all different sizes/shapes and some of their Melissa and Doug toys like the wooden stringing cards and tanagram (sp?) puzzles.

 

[kkmcan]

I've saved/plan on saving DS's legos, Nascar, matchbox and Disney cars collections, his favorite stuffed animals, some of his Star Wars stuff and his Toy Story toys.

For dd, I"m saving anthing American girl (3 dolls, clothes and books), her first baby doll she got when she was 1 yr old, her favorite stuffed animals, and ??. I need to go thru her room. She still has her Polly pockets and her barbies. We might save the Polly's. She never got into playing Barbies so those can probably go.

I have already put aside my kids favorite board books, nursery rhyme book and the set of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie books.

I wish I had saved more. I try not to keep stuff or clutter but I get so emotional over their toys.

 

[jessica52877]

I will/have probably saved way too many toys! My parents saved all of our stuff when we were little and alot of it we then used for my DS7, alot of course was junk and I got rid of.

Saving -

legos
the few Thomas cars we have - track I am not sure of
little people (just a few - I still have the ferry boat that was mine)
play food (old little tikes and fisher price)
maybe some matchbox cars (still have mine from when I was a kid)
toy story toys (some were bought with the first movie and still going strong 14 or so years later)

 

[drcmk]

I donate most of our outgrown toys, but I've saved favorite books, the Fisher Price Little People sets and the preschool wooden jigsaw puzzles. Those I hope my grandchild will play with some day. I've hung on to some wooden building blocks, too, because we pull them out sometimes when younger cousins visit, but I'm sure I'd be able to buy those in 20 years, they are such classic toys, so I don't think I'll hold on to them indefinitely.

We also have Lego blocks from when DH was a kid. LOTS of them. Legos are so expensive and they never change, so that seems worthwhile too.

 

[ilovejack02]

Thomas the Tank and Legos , disney Star Sars cars bought in WDW and a few special board books. I think that is all I will keep so far. He will be 8 in Aug.

 

[AndreaDM]

Well, I still have all MY original Fisher Price Little People, some even wooden. I'm 40 and all three of my kids have played with them so we'll keep those for future grandchildren as well. We have a HUGE box of DH's legos that we have no plans on getting rid of either. I will probably save DD7's AG dolls and accessories. The older 2 haven't shown that they strongly care about saving a lot of toys from when they were younger except maybe a few favorite stuffed animals.

 

[PatMcDuck]

I saved Little Tikes trucks, fire truck, garbage truck, etc and the guys that came with them. And the Brio trains and track (some trains are Thomas series).

I did not save toys from my daughter, the american girl dolls were ruined in a basement flood.

 

[clh2]

We have saved all of DD's Brio trains. (And she has tons of it since DH loves trains.) And, we have a couple of her AG dolls and a few of the favorite outfits.

 

[MichelleinMaine]

Forgot about the Knex. DS packed those up to give away several years ago. I held onto them because they're just plain handy to have at times, esp with the motors. In just the past year, they have propelled a dymanic Amelia Earhart display (plane flying around the world ) and was the basis for a couple of DS's Odyssey of the Mind competition components.

 

[momxx5]

My kids play with my old FP toys that my mom still has.

I am keeping.....

Linclon Logs
Brio/Thomas train
Fisher Price....pirate ship, western town, and castle
Fisher Price....Princess toys, house, amusement park
Building Blocks
Legos
Match Box cars

All the AG dolls are still played with daily.

As the kids outgrow them I wash them and put them in bins in the attic. Once in a while the train comes down and even my 15yr old plays with it.