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Boomer parents buy my kids so much unnecessary plastic junk
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Date: July 6th, 2020 9:48 AM Author: ,.,...,..,.,.,:,..,.,.,::,......:,..,:.:.,:.::,. that the kids play with 3 times, then either break or get bored with and throw all over the living room creating a giant junk pile. They have about as much fun playing with the cardboard box the Chinese plastic junk came in. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554618) |
Date: July 6th, 2020 9:49 AM Author: fiasco (Hayden van Persie tp) yeah we go through this too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554621) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 9:50 AM Author: goyard Who cares? Just throw it away (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554627) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 9:52 AM Author: Coach McGirk Yep. It’s a constant stream of plastic junk brought in by the in-laws and hauled back out by me to Salvation Army after a few months. Just a never ending churn of plastic garbage though my house. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554630) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 9:53 AM Author: ,..,..,.,,.,....,....,,,.....,.... So annoying this is why it’s best to cut off all communication with friends family & fake ur own death (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554639) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 9:56 AM Author: Coach McGirk One of these days I’m going to run to Goodwill and just keep on going. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554652) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 9:57 AM Author: ,..,..,.,,.,....,....,,,.....,.... Cr friend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554656) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 9:58 AM Author: '""''''" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554660) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 9:59 AM Author: ,.,...,..,.,.,:,..,.,.,::,......:,..,:.:.,:.::,. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554664) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 9:54 AM Author: .,,,.,.,..,.,:,..::,,...,:,...,:,.,..:.,:.::,. holy shit your parents buy too many toys for your kids! what a bunch of fucking self centered assholes! good thing the apple fell pretty far from the tree and you aren't like that at all! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554640) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 9:55 AM Author: ,..,..,.,,.,....,....,,,.....,.... :/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554649) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 9:59 AM Author: .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.....,.,., (ggtp) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554665) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:00 AM Author: ,.,...,..,.,.,:,..,.,.,::,......:,..,:.:.,:.::,. (Hasbro executive) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554668) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:10 AM Author: (antisemite) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554704) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:03 AM Author: fiasco (Hayden van Persie tp) There's only so much stuff to put all this shit that the kids play with a handful of times, if that. My kids have gotten gifts that have taken me longer to put together than they have played with it. And it makes for awkward conversations when you have to ask them not to buy pointless shit for the kids, and they get offended. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554683) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:05 AM Author: ,.,...,..,.,.,:,..,.,.,::,......:,..,:.:.,:.::,. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554688) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:11 AM Author: .,,,.,.,..,.,:,..::,,...,:,...,:,.,..:.,:.::,. holy shit fuck me ass you've convinced me! you're right they're a bunch of motherfucking self centered boomer assholes forcing you into "awkwardness" because they want to buy their grandkids toys! totally see it your way now! are you a lawyer? because if you are I totally want you to be the one making my closing argument when I go on trial for stabbing my mother because she took my kids to mcdonalds without my permission! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554709) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:15 AM Author: (antisemite) you seem mentally ill dude (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554722) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:48 AM Author: fiasco (Hayden van Persie tp) Why would you stab your mother over that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554862) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:06 AM Author: Coach McGirk You can both appreciate the grandparents’ love for their grandchildren while privately feeling frustrated at how they sometimes choose to express that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554692) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:53 AM Author: 1920 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554880) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:07 AM Author: ,.,...,..,.,.,:,..,.,.,::,......:,..,:.:.,:.::,. it kind of is self-centered, because they don't care whether the kids play with them or not...it's all about the boomer mentality of buying GC crap to make yourself feel better about yourself. OMG i bought Tommy the latest PawPatrol ® Deluxe Lookout Tower with an MSRP of $169.99! Wow I am such an awesome grandparent! So much more awesome than the grandparents who only buy them the basic $49.99 model! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554693) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:13 AM Author: .,,,.,.,..,.,:,..::,,...,:,...,:,.,..:.,:.::,. do you maybe realize what an absolute miserable and hateful person you have to be to actually think like that?
fucking have a garage sale if you have too much shit |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:51 AM Author: fiasco (Hayden van Persie tp) I have this exact thing in the playroom and it's a massive eyesore that never gets used.
By contrast my son got a $19 tin of dinosaur toys that gets used nearly every day. |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:59 AM Author: aurelien (luis) link? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554904) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:59 AM Author: slimp (op’s parents) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554910) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 11:02 AM Author: aurelien (luis) My kid doesn't have dinosaur toys yet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554923) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 11:03 AM Author: slimp honestly i was thinking you wanted the gigantic paw patrol tower. little hunks of chinese plastic dinosaurs are 180 and i still have fond memories of my herd. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554931) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 11:03 AM Author: fiasco (Hayden van Persie tp) https://www.amazon.com/Bees-Me-Dinosaur-Girls-Storage/dp/B07SHQ9Y7B
If your kid is into dinosaurs I can recommend some books, toys, and videos. |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 11:05 AM Author: aurelien (luis) Absolutely, brother; thanks in advance etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554937) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 11:20 AM Author: fiasco (Hayden van Persie tp) The Jurassic World dinosaur toys have been a big hit, see
https://shop.mattel.com/shop/en-us/ms/%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bjurassic-world-sound-strike-pteranodon-gjn68
As one example. We have several. You can download an app on your phone and scan them too which my son loves. obviously it also makes him addicted to GC because now he wants the entire collection so he can scan them into the phone but we try to manage that aspect of it.
I personally like the figures that are less 'toy' and more collection. Wild Safari makes a lot of figures, and they have a dinosaur collection called the Carnegie Collection that I really like. Some of these can be difficult to find but I've had luck with this website:
http://www.dejankins.com/wildsafari
Schleich is another popular brand:
http://www.dejankins.com/schleichnewer
Of course, I splurge on these because my son lives and breathes dinosaurs. If your kid is not at that level, there are plenty of toys more along the lines of the "3 Bees & Me" tin I linked above.
We also have fossil toys like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Smithsonian-Dinosaurs-Skeleton-Educational-Archeological/dp/B00200JX3S
Where the idea is that you can bury the "fossil" in a sandbox or some dirt/mulch and the kid can search for it and dig it up. There are tons of toys along these lines. They also sell more serious ones that are actual fossils but may not necessarily be dinosaur fossils.
As for books, I recommend:
https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaur-Z-Dustin-Growick/dp/1465463143
https://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Little-First-Dinosaurs/dp/1426308469
and a Dr. Seuss one:
Oh Say Can You Say Di-no-saur?: All About Dinosaurs (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)
And then for videos, check out Dinosaur Train (we get it through Amazon Prime I think). On YouTube there's a video called Dinosaur Train A-to-Z that is 80 minutes long. My son also likes Dino Dana (but not Dino Dan for some reason). |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 11:31 AM Author: aurelien (luis) 180 recs! I love most of these, esp. the fossil kit. I get giddy just thinking about the fun my kid is going to have with some of these. tyvm! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40555070) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:08 AM Author: ORANGE BOOMER BAD he has to find something to blame on the boomers...it's the fashionable thing to do (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554697) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:56 AM Author: slimp it falls in the category of champagne problems, sure, but you can at least see op’s point that conditioning your kids from birth to believe CONSOOM is the proper way to express and acknowledge love is not ideal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554893) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:58 AM Author: aurelien (luis) xo dads, please rate this gift my mom got for my kid:
https://www.hape.com/us/en/toy/master-workbench/E3000 |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 10:59 AM Author: fiasco (Hayden van Persie tp) This is a perfectly fine gift. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554908) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 11:34 AM Author: ross jr. it's fine, but wooden toys are just lib virtue signalling these days (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40555089) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 1:44 PM Author: ,..,..,.,,.,....,....,,,.....,.... Plastic toy suck. But then wooden toys suck too. I only buy my children chunks of jagged metal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40555848) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 1:48 PM Author: buttpenis this is a great website of good toys. i'm going to buy some shit for dottir. tks luis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40555868) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 11:03 AM Author: ItWasHorrible Gee, I wonder why your parents don’t know how to shop for your kids. Could it have any linkage to your decision to move hours away from them to a place where you have no ties and can better serve GC? Or your inability to have a normal conversation with them about what your kids like? Just keeping fuming on the internet, it will eventually solve your problems. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554925) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 11:07 AM Author: slimp i have seen this phenomenon many times and can’t discern any correlation with non-local grandparents or drive-by grandparents who drop off a gift and boom on over to lake havasu. it’s just an expression of an incredibly powerful desire to consume, one which i can appreciate op not wanting to pass along to his kids. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554953) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 1:45 PM Author: ,..,..,.,,.,....,....,,,.....,.... My parents live like a mile away. To be honest I’m not too bothered by the toys, I’m more bothered by the junkie movies and books they buy. GC slip shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40555852) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 11:07 AM Author: This message is satirical performance art Kids sucking on plastic is one of the primary causes of the drop in men's testosterone levels. Ingested plastic releases phthalates which convert to estrogen in the body, which disrupts testosterone production (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40554955) |
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Date: July 7th, 2020 9:04 AM Author: ,..,..,.,,.,....,....,,,.....,.... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4577594&forum_id=2#40560145) |