Our cup runneth over! The girls officially have too many toys. They couldn't even close the drawers on the organizers holding all their dress up stuff, baby dolls, stuffed animals and the list goes on.
Last Thursday, around 10:30am we started going through their room section by section, drawer by drawer. We pulled out every bit of junk jammed under their beds, behind dressers and doors and in their nightstands! We even found one bag of black moldy goop of unknown origins in Honey's section. (aka hoard central!)
They had a "give" pile for things they no longer had a use for, a "junk" pile for things that weren't even worth keeping or giving, and a "this belongs somewhere else pile".
I brought out stuff out drawer by drawer and dumped it on the living room floor and set a timer. Anything left on the floor at the buzzer would go in the garbage.
Well! Those girls thrive on a challenge! I never found anything unsorted when the timer went off. The pile on the couch is the give away pile. It took til after 5 pm to go through everything and clean their rooms but they look great now and they have more room to play and they're quite proud of their work and tidy space!
(disclaimer: I did give them a popsicle break and a lunch break!)
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