What toys of your children did you keep for grandchildren in the future?

[Anonymous]

I love all DD's books! She's just 10 but she's outgrown her dolls, Barbies and We have a beautiful Pottery Barn Kitchen set ( modern one expresso). My husband says get rid of it but it's one of a kind kitchen. He has no problem keeping a huge box of his old trains and toy cars. What have ( or had) kept for future family lines? I'm too sentimentL.

[Anonymous]

I'm ok with saving books, but IMO saving toys for another generation is a waste of space for a really long time. If my kids are very sentimentally attached to something I hold on to it for them, otherwise it goes.

Both my mother and MIL saved toys for a generation for their grandkids, but none of those toys have been played with much, if at all.

[Anonymous]

None - no one wants old crap.

[Anonymous]

I just have a small plastic storage box with the very best books from their preschool/toddler years--Caldecott Award winners and the like. There's probably about 20 that I saved.
Actually, I was in our basement storage room yesterday and saw the box and debated if it was really worth keeping...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None - no one wants old crap.

This. My MIL keeps sending us boxes of old toys that go right in the trash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love all DD's books! She's just 10 but she's outgrown her dolls, Barbies and We have a beautiful Pottery Barn Kitchen set ( modern one expresso). My husband says get rid of it but it's one of a kind kitchen. He has no problem keeping a huge box of his old trains and toy cars. What have ( or had) kept for future family lines? I'm too sentimentL.

If it's from Pottery Barn it's not really one of a kind. Do you have the space to store it?

I think I'll probably save books and Legos - my kids have some that belonged to my husband and they've thought it was really fun he liked them too.

[Anonymous]

Things like antique cars, lincoln logs, marbles.

[Anonymous]

Saved lego, thomas train sets and Toy Story dolls. They will increase in value.

[Anonymous]

You can get huge boxes of books for $10 at a garage sale.

Our parents stored lincoln logs, wooden wagons, books and American Girl dolls. But now that dd is old enough to want them all, grandparents refuse to get them out of their attic. Every time we try to go up they say it's too much work. So we've re-bought them all. DD's favorite thing is her wagon and every time she rides in it, they tell us we shouldn't have bought one because they had one. ugh. Don't be like them.

[Anonymous]

My parents kept an attic full of our old fisher price toys and stuff and once the grandkids came along they put them all in a room and called it "kidland". The grandkids/cousins would spend hours playing there together at holidays. Such a fond memory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None - no one wants old crap.

This. My MIL keeps sending us boxes of old toys that go right in the trash.

Some of those toys might have been worth $$. At least give them to the thrift store.

[Anonymous]

Classics--some books, Legos, and Magna-Tiles. DH (who has pack rat tendencies) will want to save the Star Wars action figures and toy cars.

[Anonymous]

Will be following this thread as I'm very sentimental as well. Agree about the Pottery Barn comment that it's probably not worth saving for so long as I'm guessing it's very large?

[Anonymous]

Wish mom had saved my toys. $$ https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/25-toys-of-the-80s-that-are-worth-an-absolute-fortune-now?utm_term=.fn9WAbjpk#.qtP8pn4bD

[Anonymous]

I wish I could save a few things, but our house is too small.

Be careful of lead paint and other things in your husband's toys, OP.