What do you do with your toys for pesach

amother

Pink

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 11:44 am

Wash them? Put them away and tell the kids, "too bad, ride on your bike, go outside, read a book," get 1-2 new toys for pesach?

Stars

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 11:45 am

Sell and buy a few new toys for pesach.

This is what we're doing this year.

Something else might work for next year.

amother

Cyan

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 11:48 am

Blow torch them.

Kidding.

When kids were babies, things that went into the mouth (I guess that's almost everything) were put away and sold and I got a few new things to make due with for a week. Once past the age of things going in the mouth, toys just get a quick wipe down.

groisamomma

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 12:10 pm

My kids are older now so it's mostly games. Quick peek for crumbs in each box. They use it on Pesach, just not directly on the Pesach'dik table.

yksraya

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 12:36 pm

I store them away, and I have seperate toys for pesach. I know as par halacha, toys only need to be checked for chamatz the size of a cheerio or larger, but my kids are so excited to have the pesach toys! It's a change of scenery for them. I also buy a new toy or game every yr, some stays part of the pesach collection, and some we continue to use all yr.

amother

Papaya

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 1:11 pm

Store some
Check through/clean for no obvious, big chometz
Don't play with them on eating tables
Buy a couple new games that can be played with on the table

amother

Turquoise

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 1:43 pm

Interesting, I only have little ones so I just vacuumed out the toy box and went over every toy to make sure there was nothing stuck to any of them. Adult board games will get checked and only played on the floor while kids are asleep since we do sometimes snack while playing, though we're pretty good about keeping the games clean.

The bigger question, IMO, is about sefarim that may have come to the table.

ETA- whoever thinks I'm nuts for doing that much with the toys- it took less than half an hour. No, there's unlikely to be big crumbs in a book, but absent-mindedness in dh and some family who visit mean I'm paranoid someone will forget and bring a book to the Pesach table.

LiLIsraeli

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 2:20 pm

Ruchel wrote:

There's no kezayit of edible chametz on our toys.

The halacha is not kezayit of edible chametz. It's a "mashehu," meaning the tiniest amount, even tiny crumbs. Rabbi Blumenkrantz z"l (noted authority on Pesach laws and products) said that even a molecule of chametz is assur on Pesach.

https://oukosher.org/blog/kosh.....scha/
http://judaism.stackexchange.c.....shehu

Raisin

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 2:22 pm

I check through each box for crumbs. Clean any obviously dirty pieces. I don't sell them. I don't really have a way to lock them up anyway. My toys are in bins on shelves. There are 5 days of shabbos and yom tov, no way I could afford enough new toys to replace them.

yksraya

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 2:23 pm

amother wrote:

Benchers that can have chametz stuck to them (have bachurim guests often) I put away where I sell. The other sefarim, we just vacuum the lower shelves that can be reached by kids, especially the bottom shelves, as bachurim aren't so careful and challah crumbs gets there (open shelves, near table). The sefarim that dh wants to use pesach on the table, he shakes out and wipes off.

amother

Turquoise

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 2:31 pm

yksraya wrote:

Sorry, was editing my post while you posted Smile

If it were just dh, that might work, but I don't know what books other relatives will take out (or remember what they've taken out). We have way more sefarim than toys to check at the moment, though we also put benchers away to be sold.

yksraya

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 2:36 pm

amother wrote:

Sorry, was editing my post while you posted Smile

So a quick shake off and wipe off is enough.

I have tons of sefarim too, a whole long dining room wall (built in). The shelves that we vacuum, we shake out too when we take it out to vacuum.

amother

Turquoise

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 2:39 pm

yksraya wrote:

So a quick shake off and wipe off is enough.

I have tons of sefarim too, a whole long dining room wall (built in). The shelves that we vacuum, we shake out too when we take it out to vacuum.

Thank you- your advice is helpful! What would you do with sefarim that are quite old and out-of-print (inherited or bought used)? Truth be told, I'm more sure those haven't come to the table since we're more careful with them, but I don't remember for certain.

yksraya

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 2:40 pm

LiLIsraeli wrote:

The halacha with mashehu is only "in the food" not even a crumb of chametz may be "eaten" pesach. Therefore toys can't be put onto table during pesach. But everywhere else, the halacha is the size of a cheerio or larger.

http://jewishmom.com/2011/03/2.....list/

yksraya

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 2:42 pm

amother wrote:

If you have time and energy, shake and wipe off too, or else, leave it be.

zaq

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 7:31 pm

I don't have many toys and the ones I have I can't use on YT. But I guess I will have to give the Smartphone a good cleaning. At least it has a touchscreen rather than a keyboard. Cleaning a keyboard is a Project with a capital P when people eat at their computer.

Rubber Ducky

Thu, Mar 30 2017, 7:53 pm

Sell the Play-Doh.

Check other toys briefly, clean their containers, and keep them away from the table.

And we bought a few new toys.

Oh, almost forgot, we'll wash the rubber duckies. Very Happy