Quote Originally Posted by sunnydays View Post
.... What you buy has to make sense for your space.
Exactly ~ my playroom is only 16 x 12 down there so not 'huge' by any means ... I cannot have ride on toys or big pieces of furniture in there for sure .... when I choose material or a toy for the playroom I always do so with the intent of being able to envision at least three different ways children might 'use' the item and how each age group might use it.

So for example I do not have any of the 'Little Tyke / Playskool stuff' the big fire stations, large garages, airports, farms and so forth anymore cause while some kids love them basically that is all they are ever used for so if no one is 'into them' at the moment they are taking up valuable real estate ... so if my kids want to play 'fire station / garage / airport / farm' they build one with the blocks and other open ended material accessories around the room using their imagination and all I have to 'store' in my playroom is the blocks which are always out and the blocks have 'ramps and gullies' so they can build their own things to race cars down or they make 'stalls' with blocks and put the farm animals from the toy shelf in them or they build airports and find the airplanes from the bucket of vehicles and so forth and it takes up a TINY FRACTION of the storage space cause well if no one is interested in 'fire stations' they use the blocks as something else and pretend the wooden people silhouettes in the block area are 'someone else' like the girls for example who love to build 'castles' and use them as the king and queen and princess