Things are not always what they seem20 Sep 2007 10:23 am
By Heather O.
You may think this is an empty box of diapers from Costco, but it’s really a mansion for 3 Webkinz, complete with drawbridge and trap door.
This looks like 2 pieces of aforementioned box, ripped off and ready for the garbage. They are really Webkinz beds that double as skateboards and snowboards, and occasionally waterskiis.
To the untrained eye, this looks like a hodgepodge of toys spread out in a mess. In reality, it’s a lake full of fish, with the train doubling as an eel. Duh.
I don’t know why I even bother buying toys.
My kids favorite new toys is…the breadbox I just purchased. Apparently it’s really a cave. They must have accidenty put it in the wrong section at Target. So my bread is still homeless.
Comment #1 by mamiSeptember 20th, 2007 at 11:07 amIt’s so true! Both my kids bdays are coming up and my mom was asking what to get them. I said, “It doesn’t matter, but whatever you send, send it in a really big box!”
Comment #2 by CheckersSeptember 20th, 2007 at 11:25 amMy little girl is turning one and in her toy basket are the following contents: one orange cereal bowl, one wooden spoon, an old cell phone, 5 toys with the tags still on them b/c that’s the only part she’s interested in playing with, a medicine dropper, glowsticks still in the packaging, and an ID tag my dh wore at a recent conference. Are we getting her anything from Toys ‘R Us for her birthday? H-no!
Comment #3 by StarababaSeptember 20th, 2007 at 11:50 amI always had a rule: no toy guns or weapons. Then I had kids. Suddenly anything you could aim at someone was a gun.
Comment #4 by Susan MSeptember 20th, 2007 at 12:00 pmOne year I put away a truckload of toys my boys never played with and gave them to them for Christmas later in the year. They never knew.
Comment #5 by ThornyTreeLadySeptember 20th, 2007 at 12:03 pmFunny! I always thought my 2 year olds were more entertained with a roll of TP than anything else!
Comment #6 by JustRandiSeptember 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pmNew Lawnmower box. Best toy ever.
Comment #7 by Tracy MSeptember 20th, 2007 at 12:53 pmstarababa, sock money away in her college fund! i have a friend who had her first baby earlier in the year and she commented last sunday that he always seemed bored and she didn’t know what toys to buy. i told her to give him a wooden spoon and a water bottle.
susan m, i have a friend who made the same rule. she even took away her son’s legos because he was making guns out of them. the next morning, he bit his waffle into a gun and “shot” his sisters. for anyone interested, mothering magazine did a great article on gun and weapon play a few months back. we revisit the issue often, as dad is a cop.
boxes make such great toys! our house is too small to keep them around long, so now our girls are obsessed with closets. they pull little chairs into them and spend hours in there!
Comment #8 by makakonaSeptember 20th, 2007 at 2:25 pmAre you kidding? BOXES are the best toys EVER. When I was a kid we kept boxes forever. The best was when we got a new fridge and we got to keep the fridge box. We slept in that thing, ate in it, played in it, and kept it till it disintegrated.
Comment #9 by KrisisSeptember 20th, 2007 at 2:28 pmKids imagination never fails to delight me - and about the guns and stuff - SO true. I could give my girls spoons and they’d start pretending one was the momma and the other was the baby. Give my son the same spoon and he’d try to sword fight us or shoot us with it.
Comment #10 by SueSeptember 20th, 2007 at 3:47 pmMy boys chew their morning toast into gun shapes.
Comment #11 by Tracy MSeptember 21st, 2007 at 4:15 amDid you know hangers make great fishing poles? And forget about the cat playing with it’s toys. The girls are always playing with the cat toys and somehow manage to lose them, as soon as I find some, well, they get lost. again. And no box is safe in our house, if left unattended for 5 minutes, it becomes the recipient of drawings, names, dolls, stuffed animals, and sometimes even leads to a fight on who saw it first! I boxed up a lot of toys last year and gave them away, my husband didn’t want to, I told him they don’t even play with the toys, they’ll never know they’re missing. They didn’t. Ya gotta love the child imagination:)
Comment #12 by TrixieSeptember 22nd, 2007 at 10:49 am