First, make a compete disaster out of the living room floor. You might need The Daddy’s help. Go on, take some baby toys. And some toddler toys. Mix them up. Nicely done.
Then, locate your handy-dandy-never-been-used-don’t-know-why-you-have-it waste basket.
Put all the baby toys in the waste basket. Dump into the baby’s toy box.
Put all the toddler toys into the waste basket. Put the full basket next to her door. She’s asleep and will take care of these toys tomorrow morning. And by “take care of,” I mean “promptly dump out on the living room floor again.”
But for the night, the floor looks like this! And in only two trips. Works for me!
And, by the way, those are our new (used) couches that Josh didn’t want to get. He seems to be enjoying them, doesn’t he?
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Come back tomorrow (Thursday) for a What I Believe post on circumcision!
I have always been a firm believer in having a toy basket that you can throw everything in. It just gets taken out the next day, right?
Amen on sticking the stuff in a box- like Beyonce sings! “To the left, to the left, everything you own in a box to the left!”
love it. sometimes you just gotta throw it all in!
I do this same thing with my laundry basket. Then my two oldest boys (3 & 4) scoot it into their room and transfer the contents into their toy box. It’s great!
The daddy looks like he was thrilled about having his picture taken! 🙂 Oh, and I recognize that CD on that dolly!
we’ve lowered ourselves to the point of having a basket in the living room for Lexi’s toys. I try to keep it neat, all the little toys in the basket then there are bigger toys that stay in the living room too. I always said I’d never do that, but Lexi is such a social butterfly she doesn’t want to go play in her room, she wants to play where mommy and daddy are. I figured why move the toys back into her room every night?! Maybe once she’s walking we’ll move them back to where they belong.
Great idea- we have lots of baskets around which we use for the same purpose. as you mentioned though, they also make it easier for the kids to move toys back into the living room!
I do this same thing, only with laundry baskets. It works great, and my kids are old enough to carry the baskets up themselves.
LOL that is so cute. he looks awfully smug sitting there, doesn’t he? 😉
amy
p.s. trying to get my stuff together to come up w/ a what i believe post for tomorrow. eep!
It worked for us too.
Especially the way the the basket was decluttered. LOL!
Have a nice week!
we have 2 toddlers at home and the toddler toys that we got on online are perfect for them_