Anonymous wrote:1%'er problems. We have a 2 bR 1200sf home, 3 kids. No playroom.

Why do people feel the need to make comments about the "1% problems" --what other kind of issues are you expecting on DCUM where I would guess that the majority of us are at least 10% by national standards. Do you really think a mom is going to post on here about what a bitch it is to walk 2 miles to the village well so her kids have semi-clean water? Of course not. is that a major problem in the world? yes. but that doesn't mean that OP or anyone else isn't allowed to post about whats bothering her.

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Anonymous wrote:1%'er problems. We have a 2 bR 1200sf home, 3 kids. No playroom.

Not helpful.

I find persoective very helpful, actually.

OP here. How's this for perspective? I grew up poor, abused, abandoned and in foster care. I have no family and busted my ass to get where I am. I do not feel guilty for beating the odds. i do not feel guilty for having a f$&@ing play room. You are an uninformed judgmental ASS who probably takes more for granted than any 1%er.

A bit touchy? Never mind my comment then.

DDs are 8 and 6. We still have a playroom (it is the "family room" of the house - we use the "living room" as our family room) but we are thinking in a few years it is going to become more of a "kid family room" - sofa, tv, desk, etc. I think we could get away with not having one now, barring somewhere to keep the toys (they are in a closet in the playroom and the playroom is really chairs, rug, desk, and space to play), but we have the space.

Anonymous wrote:1%'er problems. We have a 2 bR 1200sf home, 3 kids. No playroom.

We have 1300 sq ft and still managed to squeak out a playroom. Our boys share a room at the moment. We might rearrange things down the line and lose the playroom, but for now it's a nice way to contain most of the toys.

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Anonymous wrote:1%'er problems. We have a 2 bR 1200sf home, 3 kids. No playroom.

Not helpful.

I find persoective very helpful, actually.

OP here. How's this for perspective? I grew up poor, abused, abandoned and in foster care. I have no family and busted my ass to get where I am. I do not feel guilty for beating the odds. i do not feel guilty for having a f$&@ing play room. You are an uninformed judgmental ASS who probably takes more for granted than any 1%er.

We got rid of our playroom when DD was about 9. She'd lost interest in many of her toys and started to prefer playing in her room. We purged/donated a lot and put those she still wanted in bins in the closet or in her room. Now the playroom is a guestroom.

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Anonymous wrote:1%'er problems. We have a 2 bR 1200sf home, 3 kids. No playroom.

Not helpful.

I find persoective very helpful, actually.

I do too, but the op wasn't posting that this was her worst problem right now. She was just asking people when they gave up their playroom. So your comment was a bit more snarky than being helpful.

We have a futon couch in our basement playroom. When guests stay over, it becomes the guest room. It ksnt fancy but it works

You will be fine if you make an effort to downsize as they grow out of toys now. I find it way easier to do this by finding a friend with a younger child I can donate some stuff to. It is so fun to see another little one playing with my kids stuff. When it is time to have their own rooms let them device the stuff and pass on the rest. Getting their own rooms should take the sting out. I also think board games and art supplies in the guest room is a good idea.

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Anonymous wrote:1%'er problems. We have a 2 bR 1200sf home, 3 kids. No playroom.

Not helpful.

I find persoective very helpful, actually.

Anonymous wrote:1%'er problems. We have a 2 bR 1200sf home, 3 kids. No playroom.

Not helpful.

Anonymous wrote:1%'er problems. We have a 2 bR 1200sf home, 3 kids. No playroom.

That's a mansion by our standards. Ours is 900 square feet. Each kid has their own room. They play in their room, the living room where most of the toys are or the basement (unfinished).

1%'er problems. We have a 2 bR 1200sf home, 3 kids. No playroom.

Half of our basement is a playroom. We don't really need to get rid of it - what we've found is that as the kids get older they either want to hang out in the bedrooms or in the den where the tv is.

Two of our kids are in college now and that was how things went with them.

If you don't have that option though I would suggest getting rid of eveything broken or that they've grown out of, and then getting them a desk with a hutch and a bookcase. Anything that can't fit in both those places goes in ONE bookcase in the guest room (like board games that belong to the whole family rather than one son or the other).

At some point my sons will want their own room and I'll need to move the guest room. I'm hoping that day doesn't come while they are still young enough to have a playroom. Just wondering what age your kids were when you no longer needed to have a play room. I certainly did not have one growing up but my kids have so much more junk than I did.