Seth W Bartels

at the salvation army that we go to here in town, they have a free box
which holds toys like you're talking about and other mismatched or broken
or odd things. my kids pick through em while i'm searching around and
usually decide that they're not much fun or whatever and leave them there
knowing they could take em if they wanted. they have picked some before
though, and, no...it wasn't a big deal. i don't personally like them,
but if they enjoy them, then i don't see what the big deal is. :) i do
know plenty of people who wouldn't allow it or, at the very least, would
work very hard to dissuade their kids from bringing them home. i figure,
if they're free and they get tired of them, i could put them out in a
free box at a future garage sale or donate them back to goodwill, which
is, for the record, what has happened with them each time!

lisa

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:45:49 -0700 Elizabeth Hill
<ecsamhill@...> writes:
** i agree completely here and i think this is the sticking point. i
don't
guilt my children about their choices. i'm proud of my kids and i love
them. if they really want something and it happens to be plastic, i'm
not saying that i won't get it. i'm just saying that that isn't
typically the case. we have an extremely limited budget and the kids
honestly rarely get gifts. **

What about going to thrift stores and scooping up some of the piles of
pre-owned small plastic Disneyesque "Happy Meal" toys? The toys have
already been made and purchased, so you aren't personally increasing the
amount of trash in the (future) landfill by buying them. And they are
quite cheap. Would you refrain from doing this?

Betsy


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