Re:Toy Play Value, was Re: The Gimmes
[email protected]
In a message dated 8/17/2004 7:12:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
I started doing an internal exercise about this. New Gamecube games can be
as much as 50 bucks. Wow, that's a lot of money for a simple video
game!! However, if you think of it in terms of time played (and enjoyed)
it can be as little as 50 cents an hour.
We've been going through cheap plastic sword sets. At about 10 bucks a
set, they last a week or two. Easily down to 50 cents an hour. And if you
figure the amount of fun had for that 50 cents!!!! Now THAT'S VALUE!!
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I think the two toys that had the best play value (cost per hour of play)
were the Brio Trains (which were very expensive when Juls was little. Now you
can get cheaper knock-offs) andthe Beanie Babies.
We had dozens of Beanie Babies, and we did something radical with them. We
took off the tags and PLAYED with them!
Julian played with those things for so many hours for several years. Five
bucks apiece, and WAY worth it.
Kathryn
Kathryn Baptista, Conference Coordinator
Come to the Live and Learn Unschooling Conference August 27-29 in Peabody,
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[email protected] writes:
I started doing an internal exercise about this. New Gamecube games can be
as much as 50 bucks. Wow, that's a lot of money for a simple video
game!! However, if you think of it in terms of time played (and enjoyed)
it can be as little as 50 cents an hour.
We've been going through cheap plastic sword sets. At about 10 bucks a
set, they last a week or two. Easily down to 50 cents an hour. And if you
figure the amount of fun had for that 50 cents!!!! Now THAT'S VALUE!!
********************
I think the two toys that had the best play value (cost per hour of play)
were the Brio Trains (which were very expensive when Juls was little. Now you
can get cheaper knock-offs) andthe Beanie Babies.
We had dozens of Beanie Babies, and we did something radical with them. We
took off the tags and PLAYED with them!
Julian played with those things for so many hours for several years. Five
bucks apiece, and WAY worth it.
Kathryn
Kathryn Baptista, Conference Coordinator
Come to the Live and Learn Unschooling Conference August 27-29 in Peabody,
MA!
For more information, go to www.LiveandLearnConference.org
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Have a Nice Day!
Another really great toy is a baby doll for some kids. My youngest daughter got HOURS of play out of baby dolls. She just loves them. She is moving away from that now, but she is the only one of my kids who loved to play with them. Its sort of a precious memory for me I guess. I really wish I could have afforded more "stuff" for her to use with her baby dolls, but she did ok with what she had.
Matchbox cars are another great one. All 3 of my kids loved matchboxes. My son spent hours in the dirt playing with them, with his friend, up until he was about 13.
And my youngest also got a lot out of Bratz dolls, creating her own dollhouse out of every day stuff, and spreading it out all over the living room. Very cool.
Kristen
Matchbox cars are another great one. All 3 of my kids loved matchboxes. My son spent hours in the dirt playing with them, with his friend, up until he was about 13.
And my youngest also got a lot out of Bratz dolls, creating her own dollhouse out of every day stuff, and spreading it out all over the living room. Very cool.
Kristen
----- Original Message -----
From: KathrynJB@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:41 PM
Subject: [UnschoolingDiscussion] Re:Toy Play Value, was Re: The Gimmes
In a message dated 8/17/2004 7:12:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
I started doing an internal exercise about this. New Gamecube games can be
as much as 50 bucks. Wow, that's a lot of money for a simple video
game!! However, if you think of it in terms of time played (and enjoyed)
it can be as little as 50 cents an hour.
We've been going through cheap plastic sword sets. At about 10 bucks a
set, they last a week or two. Easily down to 50 cents an hour. And if you
figure the amount of fun had for that 50 cents!!!! Now THAT'S VALUE!!
********************
I think the two toys that had the best play value (cost per hour of play)
were the Brio Trains (which were very expensive when Juls was little. Now you
can get cheaper knock-offs) andthe Beanie Babies.
We had dozens of Beanie Babies, and we did something radical with them. We
took off the tags and PLAYED with them!
Julian played with those things for so many hours for several years. Five
bucks apiece, and WAY worth it.
Kathryn
Kathryn Baptista, Conference Coordinator
Come to the Live and Learn Unschooling Conference August 27-29 in Peabody,
MA!
For more information, go to www.LiveandLearnConference.org
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Kelly Muzyczka
>I think the two toys that had the best play value (cost per hour of play)Oooh, I didn't even think of the trains. They cost a fortune. And we'll
>were the Brio Trains (which were very expensive when Juls was little. Now
>you
>can get cheaper knock-offs) andthe Beanie Babies.
>
be handing those suckers down, even the knock offs, to my grand kids.
Kelly
Game-Enthusiast
We've gotten a lot of mileage out of beanie babies too. Two of the kids
favorites have gone almost everywhere with us for the last three years.
They've been buried in dirt piles, gone swimming at the beach, been stirred
into flour water goop the kids were cooking with, fallen from great heights,
and washed a million times. They are still going strong. We definitely got
our money's worth out of those toys when you consider the hours played with.
The Breyers are more expensive but when you consider the hours they are
played with the hourly rate is still low. I love looking at it that way.
It's funny but the other day as I was printing out the 10th campground map
each for the kids I had a flashing thought that we were wasting paper. But
they played with those twenty sheets of paper for almost two days straight.
They picked campgrounds from all over the country, we printed the campground
site maps, then they wrote in the names of each of the animals that were
staying at those campsites. They planned the route they would take to stay
at different camp sites all over the country so they could start in ME, go
to the west coast, and camp their way back to ME. Pretty cool when you
think about it.
Angela
<mailto:game-enthusiast@...> game-enthusiast@...
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We had dozens of Beanie Babies, and we did something radical with them. We
took off the tags and PLAYED with them!
Julian played with those things for so many hours for several years. Five
bucks apiece, and WAY worth it.
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favorites have gone almost everywhere with us for the last three years.
They've been buried in dirt piles, gone swimming at the beach, been stirred
into flour water goop the kids were cooking with, fallen from great heights,
and washed a million times. They are still going strong. We definitely got
our money's worth out of those toys when you consider the hours played with.
The Breyers are more expensive but when you consider the hours they are
played with the hourly rate is still low. I love looking at it that way.
It's funny but the other day as I was printing out the 10th campground map
each for the kids I had a flashing thought that we were wasting paper. But
they played with those twenty sheets of paper for almost two days straight.
They picked campgrounds from all over the country, we printed the campground
site maps, then they wrote in the names of each of the animals that were
staying at those campsites. They planned the route they would take to stay
at different camp sites all over the country so they could start in ME, go
to the west coast, and camp their way back to ME. Pretty cool when you
think about it.
Angela
<mailto:game-enthusiast@...> game-enthusiast@...
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We had dozens of Beanie Babies, and we did something radical with them. We
took off the tags and PLAYED with them!
Julian played with those things for so many hours for several years. Five
bucks apiece, and WAY worth it.
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velvet jiang
my daughter came up with the idea of decorating the christmas tree with all
of her beanie babies. we just put on the lights and then used clothes pins
to hook them on. it was the best christmas tree and the easiest clean up
i've ever had. just unpinned them and threw them in the basket.
velvet
of her beanie babies. we just put on the lights and then used clothes pins
to hook them on. it was the best christmas tree and the easiest clean up
i've ever had. just unpinned them and threw them in the basket.
velvet
Aimee
<<Julian played with those things for so many hours
for several years.
Five
bucks apiece, and WAY worth it.
Kathryn >>
Alex has four beanies he still plays with. There's
Farting Duck ( I don't know why he farts, you'll have
to ask him) Nut and Nutz, two squirrels that guard his
headboard, and Waddle, his lovey he has to say good
nite to before he goes to sleep.
Altho once we forgot him and he can hear Alex from
wherever he might be, which is a good thing. lol
He even has a goodnite song he sings to them.
*so cute*
He'd prolly kill me if he heard me blabbing about
this, so shhh, don't say anything, K?
~Aimee
for several years.
Five
bucks apiece, and WAY worth it.
Kathryn >>
Alex has four beanies he still plays with. There's
Farting Duck ( I don't know why he farts, you'll have
to ask him) Nut and Nutz, two squirrels that guard his
headboard, and Waddle, his lovey he has to say good
nite to before he goes to sleep.
Altho once we forgot him and he can hear Alex from
wherever he might be, which is a good thing. lol
He even has a goodnite song he sings to them.
*so cute*
He'd prolly kill me if he heard me blabbing about
this, so shhh, don't say anything, K?
~Aimee