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mirror

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 6:36 pm

1. Whistle

2. Whoopie cushion

ectomorph

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 6:41 pm

My grandmother gave me an ant colony in fifth grade. My mother was not amused.

Chayalle

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 6:43 pm

One Chanuka my DD was gifted with a toy that had various VERY LOUD animal sounds that could be selected and played over and over. Way to drive parents up the wall. DH says it should be illegal to make kids toys THAT LOUD.

acemom

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 7:00 pm

How does something like this for a three year old make sense? I was not happy to find all that glitter EVERYWHERE for the next half year or so.

https://www.overstock.com/Craf......html

rachel6543

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 7:03 pm

Cheap toys from the dollar store that break after 1-2 uses.

MagentaYenta

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 7:09 pm

1. Whistle From Grandma

2. Whoopie cushion From great uncle

Rutabaga

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 7:10 pm

Bucket of 6,000 perler beads

animeme

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 7:11 pm

Fox in Socks.

Volunteer

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 7:12 pm

Toys that light up, play annoying music, etc. The kid just sits there and presses a button to watch the toy play, rather than playing with the toy and using his imagination.

amother

Violet

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 7:12 pm

A toy Trumpet.
My 2 year old happily woke me up this morning by blowing the trumpet that my mother in law bought for him. He had a big smile and knew he was doing something funny!
Anon because I told my mother in law this story

amother

Lawngreen

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 7:17 pm

Gak(?) silly putty
Those gummy slap things on the wall

seeker

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 8:38 pm

Rutabaga wrote:

Bucket of 6,000 perler beads

Really? Keeps my girls busy for hours sometimes!

Rutabaga

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 8:42 pm

seeker wrote:

Really? Keeps my girls busy for hours sometimes!

How often does it spill?

sequoia

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 8:49 pm

If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.
Chinese proverb

seeker

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 8:51 pm

Rutabaga wrote:

How often does it spill?

I keep it in a relatively shallow container with a wide base. When I want to stay ahead of even that, I only give the kids a bowl of beads at a time with the big container staying on a high shelf. If the bowl of beads spills I am OK with just vacuuming it up because who cares, we have so many anyway, even with waste they will surely outlast the kids' attention span for them... Cool

seeker

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 8:52 pm

sequoia wrote:

If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.
Chinese proverb

If it's bad enough, include cymbals LOL

seeker

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 9:16 pm

Oh and my addition to the list: Things that have no purpose other than sitting around collecting dust. My children do not have curio cabinets. They do not even have desks or nighttables. If they did, I still wouldn't want them to be cluttered with knickknacks, but as it is we live in a small apartment and just have no room for anything that isn't very functional. Even if we did have room for it it doesn't provide any value.

Dandelion1

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 9:26 pm

Orbees

mompower

Tue, Nov 08 2016, 10:06 pm

...Or maybe be grateful that people are thinking of your kids and buying them gifts:)

champion

Wed, Nov 09 2016, 1:14 am

candies and nosh.
If you really need to buy food for my child PULEEZ don't buy the shiniest rainbow colored elastic object sold as candy.
There are so many healthy choices that are also considered nosh in the kinder world. I would love to see my child getting sweet potatoe baked chips, apple or banana chips, flavored rice cakes. and so on.

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