# Parents: Toy Storage ideas?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-toy-storage-ideas/191956>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 30, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-toy-storage-ideas/191956 "2003-07-30T18:30:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-toy-storage-ideas/191956/21 "2003-07-31T21:18:51Z")

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The [satisfied](http://home.revealed.net/ddwyer/bins.jpg) customer.

Altogether now… “awwwwww”

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**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-toy-storage-ideas/191956/22 "2003-07-31T22:49:33Z")

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Awwwww 🙂

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**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-toy-storage-ideas/191956/23 "2003-08-01T05:49:43Z")

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Wow, she’s grown! When I pictured Maeve, I thought of her as just barely a toddler, and now look at her! What a cutie. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-toy-storage-ideas/191956/24 "2003-08-01T20:03:21Z")

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Oh, she’s getting so big!  
Have you guys had her out at the pools at all this summer? We usually go out to Scott County Park pool. Less crowded, cheaper, and open later. Not all the fancy sprinklers and slides but more room!  
As for toy storage I was going to suggest good will when I first saw the thread title, but that was after spending two days weeding through five heathens toys and would have been a bit snarky.  
Besides not watching Toy Story before getting rid of toys you should also go through the toys while children are not there.  
Because even though they haven’t touched a toy since the day they got it, on that day it becomes their most cherished toy.  
I learned that lesson the hard way.

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**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-toy-storage-ideas/191956/25 "2003-08-01T21:11:09Z")

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The only thing that worked was removing toys. If you have 50 bins, you will have 51 bins worth of stuff. My kids live like Royalty, so I don’t feel guilty if they have to ‘get by’ with 25% fewer toys on demand. The rest are stored up.

Small bins are actually better, because you don’t cause a ruckus finding stuff and pull out what is needed. Those bins in the link are helpful.

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