Thursday Cleaning Challenge – Sort those toys
November 13, 2008 by kellys
Filed under Thursday Cleaning Challenge, cleaning
No parent I know likes to admit it, but the toys in our homes are asexual! Stop laughing at me. You know it is true. I am looking at my toys and am realizing that I am going to have to sort them again before we bring in new toys from Christmas. This time, I am going to let the DH do it. No I am not being lazy. But I can look at the toys and see where each one is played with every once in a while. My DH, however, looks at them a little more objectively. So I am actually going to let him go through them this time. If there is an obvcious toy that needs to stay, then I will put it back. Then, and only then, I will let the kids pick a toy to give to another kid in order to allow them to help with the process and to learn to take ownership of purging.
So this weeks, Thursday Cleaning Challenge is to purge the kids toys so that when Christmas comes, you won’t be totally overwhelmed. Hope this helps.
I purge toys several times a year, but especially before birthdays and Christmas. Plus we moved this year, so we really got rid of a ton of them!