Welcome to the 30-Day Organize-athon!
In today’s 5 minutes we’re going to express-declutter the kids’ toys.
Inhale: clarity, freedom, order. We’re gonna need it!
Day 17: Declutter The Kids’ Toys
Note: Decide on the extent to which you need to consult/involve the kids. This will depend on their ages and your family style.
Step 1: Grab a large bag or box. Depending on which option you choose in Step 3, you may need additional boxes/bags.
Step 2: Gather all the kids’ toys into one location. (If this alone takes more than 5 minutes it doesn’t count!)
Choose one of the following options:
Option A
Step 3: Quickly going through the collection, toss into the bag/box any toys that:
- Your kids have outgrown
- Are broken or dangerous
- Have been divested of batteries because they’re so annoying
- Are in poor condition
- Are doubles.
Step 4: Extract any toys that are safe and in good condition for a charity bag. Toss the rest.
Option B
Step 3: Give each child a large bag/box and ask them to fill it up with their favorite toys – the ones they want to keep. Explain that the rest can be given to kids who don’t have so many toys and would really love some more. (This may take more than 5 minutes, but perhaps you can go do something else while the kids ponder their collections?)
Step 4: Of the remaining toys, extract any that are safe and in good condition for a charity bag. Toss the rest.
And you’re done!
Got an Extra 5 Minutes?
Check your own toy collection (um, please keep comments G-rated for this blog 
) for:
- Ancient, out-of-date or falling-apart board games
- Surplus packs of playing cards
- Previous versions of games consoles
- Computer/video games no one plays anymore.
Now won’t everyone have more fun with the good stuff that’s left?
The 30-Day Organize-athon Mantra
Move fast. Don’t overthink. Let it go!
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See you tomorrow!
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Did this recently as part of Project Simplify, and the outgrown, annoying and not in my kids interest toys have left the house yesterday with my friend who has a kindergarten. So many happy kids!
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done
Done! easy enough as we don’t have kids yet so I went through mine and my husbands old toys and went through which ones were special that we wanted to pass on to our own one day and which ones could be tossed or donated!
another one bites the dust!! done! yippee!
Day 17 done!
Surprise – we did that about a month ago – as a family so this task was very easy to do :-}
Well, I’m being induced with my first tomorrow, but she has cats for older siblings and I should probably go through their toys 🙂
Done. But will need to purge some more toys soon.
My favorite task so far! Too many toys!
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No kids, but the board games are cleaned up!
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No kids, but did clean up the big kid toys!!!!
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I rotate toys, so this was pretty easy 🙂
woohoo! No kids here – this one is a freebie for me!
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More than kid toys, I had to clear out my stuff. Never realized it !