I have to admit, my kids had too many toys, especially for living in a small house. I’m not sure who was more attached to them, the kids or me. :\
There were suggestions about boxing up some of the toys and rotating them. I don’t know that my kids were overwhelmed by the number of toys. They did not play with just a few of them, to my recollection; they seemed to play with most of them. Of course the few that they didn’t play with, I was attached to for whatever reason (i.e. Etch-a-Sketch and Light Bright) and did not want to eliminate those. We didn’t really have a place we could store boxed toys on rotation, so that didn’t really work for us.
But I read this article yesterday which brought up some good points. Maybe it will help you tackle this difficult topic. Reasons 2 and 10 are ones I hadn’t thought of in that way before and number 1 is definitely true!
It’s a quick-to-read article, so I hope you’ll jump over there and read it for yourself.
Until next time, God bless,
Michele ºÜº