Toys: old and older

Toys – old and new older

There are Savers and there are Tossers. Here is the down side to being married to a saver when you’re a saver yourself: we accumulate too much stuff. Now, we’re not hoarders which is a whole different pathology,( http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/harmless-pack-rat-or-compulsive-hoarder ) but we sure don’t throw much away. It’s not that we just quit housekeeping and forgot to purge stuff.  We intentionally said in our head, “That’s a nice Tonka remote control truck. I’ll save that…for (–fill in the blank)  for later….for when the friends bring their grandkids over…..for when we have grandkids…etc.) Or, for no reason at all, it just seemed too good to dispense with it. I ‘ve been cleaning out closets/cellars and dredging up old toys the kids haven’t seen in years.  While I’m in this temporary purge mode, I show Judd an item and say, ” I can do without this, can you?” He does the same. If either of us even hesitates, back it goes to the save pile.  Some things we feel obliged to show the respective child of previous ownership and ask them if they can part with the item yet.  They’re a little better about purging than we are but I feel they lack creativity and aren’t really trying to imagine pregnancy or having their own little child playing with the beloved dusty retro toys from their childhood.

LEGOS – STAY ( duh!)

Wooden Pteradactyl model – kids can part with it but maybe Judd’s math class would benefit

90’s Trivial Pursuit Game – Purge

The Original Trivial Pursuit Game – Stays

Swing set from the back yard – Goes

Wooden trebuchet model (assembled but never really slung rocks) – to math class

American Girl doll and her dog sled – Stays                 (my call, not Malindi’s)

Mousetrap-Race Car that Ryley made with old Neil Young long playing record wheels - 

            Garbage!

Various aquariums/terrariums/cages for (over the years) fish, anole, rat, mice, hamster, bunnies – GONE!!

Then there are the toys from my youth. They’re not actually in my cellar (well, some of them are.)  Lately a pic goes up on the web labeled as an AGE TEST –the implication is, if you know what the item is: YOU’RE OLD!  The word is in:  I am old.  They’re not all toys, but take the test. Are you old?

www.etsy.com

www.ebay.com 

northhigh73.com 

www.edblood.com 

www.flickriver.com -

www.dhs1967.org 

Well, you're only old if you stop playing-- whatever toys you like. Too bad you can't go get some new toys any more with all those S & H green stamps !!