Cleaning out kids playroom

My father in law told me that my son has way too many toys. It could be overwhelming to him.

I am wanting to go through his toys and either store them (for potential future children) or let my mom use them in her day care for a while.

How do you know which toys to put up or which to keep out.

I have no idea how my son will react (4 yr). Some he plays with on occasion every couple weeks I will notice something he has set up that he hasnt touched in a while.

I hate to put them up and then he out grow them. Like the other day he was playing with his , kinda like action figure army guy bucket. I think those are just now age appropriate. He got a box of those for Christmas and that was the first time he played with them.

How do you know if he has too many??


I think I will take a picture an load it.

I have three more

This is like a panoramic view of our dining room which we turned into hi s playroom.

He also has I think about 2 of those hard wooden puzzles and a giant amount of books.

What do yall think?

I really wish someone would tell me what they think! Too many toys or not?
It wont hurt my feelings PROMISE!

I doesn't look like to many to me, I've seen worse!! Maybe just disorganized when the photo was taken. My fiance's daughter literally had so many toys at one point you could barely walk in her room. It was so much stuff packed into a little 10' x 10' room. When eventually went through them and gave some to the Goodwill.

Yes, it looks like he has way too much. How can he possibly play with them all?

I usually go through everything in my sons room once every 6 months. I mean EVERYTHING! I pretty much empty his room and only put back what he really wants to keep or really plays with. We just did it 2 weeks ago and it does make a huge difference.

Trust me, he won't miss what you take out. He might not even notice. Throw away any broken toys, toys that are missing pieces or happy meal type toys. With the bigger, nicer stuff, you can either donate it to a thrift type shop, have a yard sale or if you really want to, box it up and store it if you really think you will have more kids. You can also box stuff up and put it away for a month or so. If he hasn't noticed it is missing or asked for it, then you can give it away. Or at least rotate the toys. Box half of them up then bring them back in a month or so and box up the other half and put that away.

You only have one child, right? I would say that is too many toys then, IMHO. We go through our son's toys about once a month. If it doesn't fit in his toybox in his room or on the shelves in his closet (he has a walk-in closet with lots of shelves he can reach), it goes. We let him help pick and choose what to keep and what to give away. Better yet, have a yard sale.

Yeah probaly too much. I rotate my kids toys, put half away in storage, then in a few months switch the ones in storage with the regular ones. They love it, it is like new toys a couple of times a year! Good luck!

Alrighty then!

This afternoon we will play to overhaul.

I do plan on having at least one more child. What he mainly has is his geo trax. Someone gave us the entire set. At least those are like 500.00 worth of toys, geotrax alone. Their is every geotrax that was ever made. I may downsize that.

Then all the Little People houses. That was given to him by the same people that gave us the geotrax. There is every little people thing that was ever made. I may keep one of those out that he plays with.



The truth is he does not and has not ever played with all of his toys.

Their are 2 more bins in the garage.

I still have all the baby toys in a bin in our spare room. (In case of another baby) We are waiting for our life to calm down.

I will throw away broken or toys that are missing an item.

I didnt mean for them to pile up like that I just didnt know what to do and didnt want him to be sad. But now that I am on my anxiety meds I cant hardly quit working. I am getting so many thins completed!

I agree. It doesn't look like too many. Looks like you just need organization, or more shelves, containers for them.

I only get rid of toys after my kids either decide (on their own) that they don't want them anymore, or just grow out of them (and of course if they are broken). I never get rid of anything my kids still use or play with.

My kids are teens and they still have a couple of buckets of stuff they still play with. They also both still have all of their stuffed animals (they don't want me to get rid of them, and at this point say that when they move they are taking them with them.

My 15 year old still has stuffed pikachus, and has a thing for squirrels so I buy him all of the stuffed squirrels I can fine lol. (wiht my younger son it is a mix of monkeys, frogs and turtles).

He never really plays with his little People stuff. I think I can remember 2X in the last 4 months. He just will throw them if he gets mad.

I wont throw those away. I am going to store them. If he gets tired of his geotrax I will swap.

Originally Posted by francisfam1 \ I wont throw those away. I am going to store them. If he gets tired of his geotrax I will swap.

If you clean out his toys, don't throw them away. Advertise on Craigslist or such. I, personally, collect the Little People sets and occasionally look for them at garage sales or Ebay.

Oh, no no I would not throw them away!
I am planning on keeping them.

Are you looking for a specific one. I think I have all of them!

All the animals, people, planes, cars, things to attatch them all together.
Garage, barn, house, ferris wheel, noahs ark, castle, landing station for plane (this is what I can think of off the top of my head.

I have tried with my son to make them into like a village. He doesnt like the owrk it takes and gets frustrated. So then one morning I set the whole village up myself so he could see what it looked like. He still just walked right past them!

Some of those toys don't seem age appropriate, in other words your son seems like he'd be too old for some of them. Have you considered sorting that way?

Also, be very cautious about all of that plastic / lead-paint laced / made in China stuff. I know those toys are popular but pediatricians are seeing an increase in lead levels of kids' blood tests since the huge influx of those toys.

If it were me, I'd keep the books and DVDs, the educational stuff, and only a handful of actual toys.

My kids always had alot of toys so I'd rotate them when they got bored. It also helped save on space. When they outgrew the toys I always donated them.