Comments on: Taming toy clutter

By: Sara's Mama

Sara's Mama — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:22:41 +0000

Hi Sherry,

Much like how you use “baskets and recycled large ice cream tubs”, we use see-through shoe boxes and some larger decorative bins that match our family room decor. The bins themselves were quite a mess for awhile, but now we keep the toys in the bins sorted with zippered mesh toy bags (KidsKlutterKatchers.com) that somebody in my mom’s group told me about. What doesn’t fit in the bins, we store in the closet or garage using large Rubbermaid containers we bought on sale at Target and rotate out once a month.

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Toy Storage: Are Lego taking over the living room? — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:26:13 +0000

[...] of Inside Motherhood shares her family’s solution to kid clutter in the living room. We went that route for awhile, but still felt a bit overwhelmed with it all. [...]

By: dorojm

dorojm — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:30:11 +0000

Glad to know I’m not the only one waiting for school to start to do toy control. I have found it so much easier to do when my daughters aren’t around. If they are then I get “my favorite toy” (haven’t played with it in months and won’t be playing with it after 10 minutes) or “I need that” and it’s broken or missing parts. I have two extreme packrats. I think I could get rid of 95% of their stuff and it really wouldn’t affect them. So at the end of the month it’s plastic bins and black garbage bag time (must not be able to see thru bag or all efforts are wasted).

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:00:45 +0000

Hey Sherry! Thanks for the mention. Now if I could just get my kids to actually PLAY in the playroom that would be good.

By: Eva Wallace

Eva Wallace — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:49:28 +0000

Thanks for the mention, Sherry! Cluttercontrolfreak is really taking off because of sites like yours. I’ve enjoyed browsing your blog!

Eva

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:16:05 +0000

We handle it pretty much like you do – color coded bins for certain toys. We still have issues now and then with putting toys away before getting new ones out, but it does get better. The toys are all in their bedrooms now so if they don’t clean it up they’re the ones who have to live with it, and thankfully they’re at the age where that’s starting to bother them!