I came from Peg's journal. I have one toddler, and before she was born, my husband and I looked at each other and said, "Oh, we have so much weeding out to do." We cleared out books, hobby materials, etc. to make room for the new baby. And then the influx of baby stuff began.
I'm having problems now with the "should I save this as we're considering having another baby," but otherwise, ruthlessness is going to have to reign. Our house is small, and we just don't have room to keep everything. I have a pile of things in the garage that will be moving to a friend's house when she has her baby (due April), but I really need to prune Meg's burgeoning toy collection. And it's hard for me, too, because I was one of those kids who had bunches and bunches of tchotchkes and toys and couldn't bear to let anything go. I had to teach myself in adulthood to do it.
So go you! and go Peg! for teaching your children to let go. I think it's a good lesson anyway to establish that material goods, while enjoyable and worth having*, are also not worth investing too much in.
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Date: 2005-01-01 04:45 pm (UTC)I'm having problems now with the "should I save this as we're considering having another baby," but otherwise, ruthlessness is going to have to reign. Our house is small, and we just don't have room to keep everything. I have a pile of things in the garage that will be moving to a friend's house when she has her baby (due April), but I really need to prune Meg's burgeoning toy collection. And it's hard for me, too, because I was one of those kids who had bunches and bunches of tchotchkes and toys and couldn't bear to let anything go. I had to teach myself in adulthood to do it.
So go you! and go Peg! for teaching your children to let go. I think it's a good lesson anyway to establish that material goods, while enjoyable and worth having*, are also not worth investing too much in.
*especially books