Using that story about the Lite Brite and the pegs as an example, I hope you better understand what I'm suggesting you do today, and throughout the rest of the time you're decluttering toys - that is to take a bit of extra time to sort the toys more before making your final decisions about toy sets and toys with small parts. That meant we decided it would definitely be decluttered, but instead of having to throw it away (which is what I would have had to do if I'd gotten rid of it at the beginning of the decluttering process) I was able to add the Lite Brite light box to the donation box along with a good number of pegs (enough to make the toy again functionally useful), so someone else could enjoy it. She decided, even after seeing a nice pile of Lite Brite pegs available for the toy again that she wasn't interested in playing with it anymore. Then, at the end of the sorting process we were able to make a better decision about what to do with the Lite Brite. You can't make good decisions about what to do with something until you've got the whole thing gathered into one place.Īs we sorted through the cubbies in her room, and the stuff on the floor, we would add a Lite Brite peg from here and there to the growing pile as we went along. We still dealt with what we could as we came across it, but we knew that a toy sort was necessary first, before we were able to make decisions about those toys with small parts, or toys that were part of a set. Therefore, instead of decluttering the Lite Brite right away while we decluttered her room I set it aside, along with designating a special area near the toy to collect all its small pieces, the little pegs, as we came across them during the decluttering process. That meant they weren't really gone for good, just not all organized and put together like they needed to be. I also knew, though, that I frequently came across little Lite Brite pegs as I cleaned up her room, or decluttered various cubbies, shelves. That meant she was currently not using it (a sure sign it should be decluttered), but also it meant that because it didn't have all (or most) of its small parts we couldn't sell it or donate it, since you shouldn't donate trash. As with many toys with small parts, when the toy has lost too many of its essential small parts it becomes useless. She'd played with it regularly at one point, but by then she couldn't find enough of the little Lite Brite pegs to actually use it much. One toy that gave me some special difficulties while decluttering was her Lite Brite. With everything in the room a jumble, lots of toy sets had pieces here and there and everywhere, instead of all of them being together in one container, like you'd ideally have them. My youngest child's room was honestly a bit of a mess, even when I'd ask her to clean it up, which was my clue that she probably had gotten too much toy clutter in her room, and we needed to take some of the stuff out of her bedroom. I think it's easiest to illustrate what I mean by this with an example, so I'm going to tell you what I recently did in my youngest daughter's room, when helping her declutter toys. That's why I suggest you go through a round or two of sorting out toys you come across during the decluttering process, before making decisions about these types of sets or toys with small parts. Often when decluttering toy sets, and toys with small parts, it can feel overwhelming to try to find all the tiny pieces of these toys, or all of the toys within the set, so you can make a decision about what to do with them - keep them, donate them, sell them, or trash them. Special Considerations When Decluttering Toy Sets & Those With Small Parts Today, we're focused on small toys, such as those with small parts, or sets of toys that are designed to be played with in a group.Įxamples of sets of toys include things like building blocks or Lego, where you need many of them to actually play and use them, as well as things like a train set or other collections of toys that all revolve around the same set of characters. Yesterday we started the process by doing some of the easy toy decluttering, by getting rid of broken toys, or those that were outgrown.
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