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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I'm not necessarily planning to keep toys for my grandchildren, but I do like to pass them along to friends, siblings, cousins, and neighbors.  I feel better about doing so with wooden toys, mostly because I have found they wear better.  Most of these types of toys I buy second-hand or accept second-hand from friends.  So, no, I don't think that's materialistic by my definition.[/quote]

Interesting.  We had lots of wooden toys from when we lived in Europe.  Many of them did NOT wear better.  Many were glued together (not fused into one piece like plastic is) and came apart.  Obviously, I think wooden toys are cute and we had lots, so I'm not anti-wooden toy.  Just pointing out that my experience on the quality is different.

Oh, and I do think a lot of the anti-plastic folks are smug and sanctimonious, but whatever works for their families.

By the way, the most played with toy in our house is Littlest Pet Shop animals (Playmobil is pretty popular, too, but LPS is the most favored).  They are open-ended for those of you who are anxious about that, so apparently my kids will actually grow up with an imagination.  They don't make noise or have flashing lights for those of you who have calm, noise sensitive children.  But, horror of horrors, they are plastic and made by some major toy company. Hmmm.[/quote]

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