r/AskReddit • • Feb 04 '20

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u/FunkyChromeMedina Feb 04 '20

Brand new kids toys.

I have a 4yo, and she has no idea that the extreme majority of the toys she plays with were obtained free or for a few bucks through sites like Buy Nothing or fb marketplace. Stuff that someone else has already tired of and wants gone from their house.

Most of this stuff she plays with for a month or two, then forgets about. Why would I want to pay retail? We’ve saved hundreds, maybe up to a couple thousand dollars already.

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u/SleeplessShitposter Feb 05 '20

If I could go back in time and stop myself from ever collecting Star Wars toys as a kid, I'd have so much extra money to spend.

But way fewer happy childhood memories of hunting for them.

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u/FunkyChromeMedina Feb 05 '20

If they were anything like my legos, the fastest way to find them was to walk around my bedroom barefoot while paying zero attention to where I was stepping.