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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm overwhelmed by toys. Grandparents spent at least 1k per kid for Christmas (the other set of grandparents probably $200 a kid, which is still a lot). We honestly are still sorting boxes of new toys and can't find a place to put them all. It was so out of control. Kids were only willing to give up duplicates that they received. The waste of it all really gets to me. DH and I both agreed that we were going to sit down with grandparents and discuss limiting toys next Christmas. It's just so sad that they have all these toys and games, but no one to play them with. As a family we only play games 2-3  nights a week and we'd never get to them all. So much of the craft kits require parental help too. I wish grandparents would just do them with the kids instead of only gifting them.

What has helped a lot was installing cubbies. We love our new cubbies. Each kid has one and it's stopped coats from being strewn everywhere. [/quote]

Suggest experience gifts from the grandparents that kids can do with them or you can do as a family.   Or a family trip with the grandparents somewhere.

My MIL was like this.  So many toys and she got better with above.  Still gave toys for something to open but not as much quantity! [/quote]

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