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0 pointsboplicity2mo ago0 comments

Toys for kids are absolutely a necessity in most households with kids.

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People 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.

johnnyanmac2mo ago

In 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.

thatfrenchguy2mo ago

I think you mean, spend $0 instead, given how many folks are donating toys on local facebook groups

sudobash12mo ago

I 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.

elevation2mo ago

Toys/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.

darth_avocado2mo ago

Only when you can afford them.

baobabKoodaa2mo ago

Why does your child need 34 or 35 toys? She can be happy with just one or two toys.

dpark2mo ago

“Why don’t you just live like you’re destitute? So ungrateful?!”

How many toys do you have?

olyjohn2mo ago

So 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.

queuebert2mo ago

"Back in my day, we had a cardboard box and a stick and didn't complain ..."

johnnyanmac2mo ago

Now 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.

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barbazoo2mo ago

People 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.

johnnyanmac2mo ago

In 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.

thatfrenchguy2mo ago

I think you mean, spend $0 instead, given how many folks are donating toys on local facebook groups

sudobash12mo ago

I 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.

elevation2mo ago

Toys/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.

darth_avocado2mo ago

Only when you can afford them.

baobabKoodaa2mo ago

Why does your child need 34 or 35 toys? She can be happy with just one or two toys.

dpark2mo ago

“Why don’t you just live like you’re destitute? So ungrateful?!”

How many toys do you have?

olyjohn2mo ago

queuebert2mo ago

"Back in my day, we had a cardboard box and a stick and didn't complain ..."

johnnyanmac2mo ago

Now 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.

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