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Tessa the Duchess

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I have spent some time this afternoon browsing online for pressies for my grandchildren. Virtually EVERY toy needs batteries usually 3 AAA. Seems toys today have to DO something other than just be a doll or a farm or a cuddly toy :evil::evil: Call me oldfashioned :oops: actually I suppose I AM oldfashioned but I thought the idea of toys were to encourage a child's imagination :?: Of course after a couple of weeks the batteries run down and the parents have to front up for some more or the toy doesn't get played with :( Rant over.....

 

Tessa

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I do agree Tessa :D

 

But, if it's of any help at all I noticed today that Aldi have batteries on a special Panasonic 12 packs of AA & AAAs at £2.99, but the offer doesn't start until thursday :wink: .

 

Sorry, that doesn't really respond to the initial posting, although I do think that some electronic toys do have good play value, just as I think that some of the "old-fashioned" toys that the child needs to imagine and manipulate themselves have great play value. I guess I think that there's space for both :D

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James is having a mixture for Christmas. A Vtech laptop which will need batteries - but I've always found the Vtech stuff to be pretty good with battery life. A sack barrow and a builders jacket which don't need batteries. And we've bought him a nice wooden snakes and ladders

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:? I've just got the two little boys their Christmas pressies. Out of the loft. A scalextric set for Dan and 2 buckets of lego for Matthew. Both belonged to their big brother a few years back. Am I tight or what? 8)

 

Definately not :lol: I recycled my children's play kitchen and food to my neice last Christmas, and our slide to her for her birthday :D They were big presents to my children, and not the sort of thing I would have bought my neice, so it was lovely to pass them on knowing how much pleasure they would bring again :D

 

karen x

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Snowy wrote

 

 

:? I've just got the two little boys their Christmas pressies. Out of the loft. A scalextric set for Dan and 2 buckets of lego for Matthew. Both belonged to their big brother a few years back. Am I tight or what? 8)

 

You are right not tight :) the toys will be 'new' to them just not brand new.

 

I found the Early Learning Centre site which has v.nice stuff and very few batteries required :) I also might brave Ikea next week, seem to remember they had nice toys lots of wooden stuff. Both my grandchildren are under 2yrs but I have a horrible feeling that although they will like my 'old fashioned' toys they will probably play more with the bright shiny plastic noisy ones given by other people :roll::roll: Oh well :)

 

Tessa

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It was great when the children were little because we could get them loads of pressies from car boot sales and charity shops and as you say they were new to them. :)

 

Now that they are older they have no objection second hand but they tend to want the latest Nintendo DS games, mobile phones etc for Christmas the age of innocence is gone :(

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