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08/31/2005 Archived Entry: "polly want a trash can?"

I'm so tired of Polly Pocket. Tabitha gets them strewn all over her room and then it's a huge argument to get them cleaned up. Sometimes I put them away just so I can avoid the argument. So today I made her an offer, I'd buy all the Pollys from her for $20 which she could then use any way she wanted (except to buy more Pollys) and then the Pollys would be mine and that would be the end of it. No dice. She usually takes my deals but I don't think she would have sold me the Pollys even if I offered fifty bucks. *sigh* I did tell her I will never ever clean them up again, so maybe she'll eventually take my deal. I did talk her into giving away two items that never get played with and are big and then I went through the playroom while she was having sister time and filled a large paper bag with stuff. One of the things I bagged up she may notice so I'll hold off on actually giving away yet. We've also been in talks about her kitchen. She occasionally plays with it and I'm not looking to get rid of it, but I don't care for the plastic food items we have. I want to ditch them and get new stuff that would be under Daisy's name. Tabitha was fine with that as long as I didn't get rid of all her spice jars (film canisters with labels) which I assured her I would not. I also moved some stuff around in the playroom. The labeled bins are going to go up on the high shelves because Tabitha can see at a glance what is up there. Right now it's toys on the higher shelves and sometimes she can't see what they are so the non-bin items will be in the lower levels. How this will work when Daisy is a bit older, I just don't know. We'll deal with that later. A really big problem in the playroom is the craft table. It's a pig sty, no way around it. I haven't a clue how to contain it all, either. I never should have bought that child crayons, lol.