Presents and toys I hate

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Anonymous wrote:Slime kits for my 3 year old. Whyyyyyyy?!?!?!

To be fair my 3 year old LOVES slime. She will play with it for a long time. Though, I do agree a slime kit is a little over the top...

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Scary styling head with makeup and hair extensions. Scary for my kid and me!

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Those little plastic things that need to be ironed to make a pointless plastic decoration.

Craft supplies, especially beads, that come without any usable storage box so they are just immediately spilled and lost.

Anything that irrevocably stains the carpet (like Aaron’s thinking putty....).

Board games that come in a box that can never be reclosed because the pieces don’t fit in properly.

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I'm really going to be the first one to mention kinetic sand?

For me, it's anything with pieces that cannot be easily contained. I don't mean Lego or playsets, which can be stored together with other like sets. I mean stuff like Aquabeads, that go all over. Vtech toys are up there for me too, but we love the Meowsic keyboard! We have the guitar too.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really going to be the first one to mention kinetic sand?

For me, it's anything with pieces that cannot be easily contained. I don't mean Lego or playsets, which can be stored together with other like sets. I mean stuff like Aquabeads, that go all over. Vtech toys are up there for me too, but we love the Meowsic keyboard! We have the guitar too.

I LOVE kinetic sand! (The kids like it too...)

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Anonymous wrote:Scary styling head with makeup and hair extensions. Scary for my kid and me!

My granddaughter loves hers.

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My aunt always gets them puzzles, cheap 5 below versions of Don’t Break the Ice with like 50 plastic cubes (every year!!) oh and this year was a 5 below “sand art” kit except the sand is really more like bath salt sized crystals which are too big to fit in the bottles so they went all over the table. Cool.

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MIL loves to laugh about how funny or cute she is for giving DS loud toys for our house. Fire trucks with sirens were her theme for Christmas.

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Anonymous wrote:Those little plastic things that need to be ironed to make a pointless plastic decoration.

Craft supplies, especially beads, that come without any usable storage box so they are just immediately spilled and lost.

Anything that irrevocably stains the carpet (like Aaron’s thinking putty....).

Board games that come in a box that can never be reclosed because the pieces don’t fit in properly.

Yes to all of the above! I’ll add anything that requires a special pen. Inevitably the pen dries out or gets lost after a day or two, rendering the whole thing useless.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the only toy I have ever hated. I don't mind anything with batteries or loud but this is obnoxious: https://www.target.com/p/b-toys-meowsic-keyboard/-/A-12026417

What I find frustrating is gifts that show absolutely no effort on the giver. My sibling sent teeshirts that her friend's kids would like based off a specific tv show. Mine does not watch tv or movies - child's choice and has very distinct interests that are easy to get for gifts (even teeshirts) and it would never occur to them to choose that. My mom does the same thing. Gets gifts her boyfriend's kids suggest for their kids and they never get played with. It would never occur to them to figure out what our kids like and get stuff for them specific to their interests. We have a collection of books and toys never touched as the other kids like them but ours don't.

Omg... my DS absolutely loved this keyboard! I loved it, too! We still have it, although it doesn’t get used much.

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Where is that trash can when you need it?

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Anonymous wrote:Bringing this over from the Family Relationships forum thread about holiday craziness....

That stupid bounce house!

Also, all the cheap plastic junk that breaks within a day. So. Much. Crap.

I love our bounce house! Best gift from MIL ever!
The vtech stuff though... ugh. Why can’t we just have a tea set and use imagination vs having it dictate which cake to eat?

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Anonymous wrote:V tech toys. DS’s grandparents always buy electronic toys that just grind your last nerve.

“Welcome to the learning farm
We have lots to show you
Shapes and colors - music too
There’s so much to do”.

V Tech is the spawn of Satan. I wish much pain, suffering, and frothing disease upon anyone associated with that wretch company--and my MIL, who seems to have a life goal of buying every single one of their vile products.

NP here and I couldn’t agree more!! Why, or why, are grandparents so obsessed with buying them?!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really going to be the first one to mention kinetic sand?

For me, it's anything with pieces that cannot be easily contained. I don't mean Lego or playsets, which can be stored together with other like sets. I mean stuff like Aquabeads, that go all over. Vtech toys are up there for me too, but we love the Meowsic keyboard! We have the guitar too.

I LOVE kinetic sand! (The kids like it too...)

Yes! I’ll take he kinetic sand and water beads!

Annoying to me is the huge set of fake LEGO guys, each with his own tiny accessory to lose before we even get home.

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Slime, putty, play doh. Legos when the kids were little and threw them around the house and I tripped on them. Now not so much since they keep it together.

We had light colored putty and the kids had the bright idea of putting it on the carpet and putting a comforter over it and sitting on it in the bedroom and seeing if it will get smushed. The carpet and comforter are ruined (the sticky stuff is not coming off) and I actually thought someone was sick when I saw the vomit looking goo on it. Never buying putty again.