Stupid Kids Stuff

[readyin07]

What are you kids wanting now that you find ridiculous/ie plastic pieces of crap that cost way too much for what it is? 

Brought to to you by a trip to Michaels earlier. My kids wanted those tsum Tatum surprise bags. $5 for a piece of small plastic crap that they looked at, said was cute, messed with for a minute and will likely be thrown out by Tuesday. I wouldn't have bought them but my mom was there and she indulges them.

[AHappierHour]

Blind bags!

[atexan]

Basically everything except books and crayons.

[googled]

Everything he sees on YouTube/TV. He is constantly saying, "Hey I have that!" Or, "Hey, I don't have that!" Until we took the Christmas tree down, he got up every morning to see if there was anything new under the tree from Santa. I think I may need to rein it in. :-|

[gummybear]

Stress balls and things filled with slime or goo or squish. Which they promptly cut open. The new thing is cutting all the things open. There are entire YouTube channels about it.

[katfco]

Shopkins. I know lots of people love them, and yes, they're kind of cute, but they're way too overpriced and overrated for what they are.

[PatBenatar]

Yep ditto Shopkins

Not the same but my MIL buys her all this cheap crap when they go to the dollar store together, especially dollar store barbies. Those things are the worst

Also today she was complaining that she doesn't have a hatchimal. Thanks You Tube

[gretchenindisguise]

Shopkins, num nums and other plastic shit, and the diamond/gold box things.

[imojoebunny]

This is why I give my kids allowance. If they waste it on useless junk, then they don't have anything to play with. If they have money, as they do now, being flush with cash from Christmas, the tend to buy more crap. Through the regular year, not so much. When you have to save for 4 or 5 weeks, you are much less likely to buy stuff you don't really want.

Pokemon cards are my current, "I can't believe I am buying this". At least, with shopkins, I get an actual thing, though Pokemon cards are great for practicing math skills, in multi digit subtraction and addition, so cup is sort of half full.

[ginandjucie24]

As seen on tv stuff.

Flipazoo
Snackezze
Snuggle tails

I dread the day when he finds the hsn and qvc channels.

[rageragerage]

You know what he's not playing with? The fucking $80 Zoomer Kitty he wanted.


He begs for the tsum tsum surprise packages- opens them, looks at them then leaves them on the floor and the dogs eat them.

[textbookcase]

Omg shopkins are ruining my life.

[lostrn]

Jan 14, 2017 23:38:15 GMT -5 @lauralynne said:

Building crap out of crap. Scotch tape and stapler used to talk e and staple everything together. I find my toilet paper unrolled onto the floor so he can use the tube....and make a periscope gun.
And then I have to sneak all of it into the recycle without him seeing it.

yes! This is the worst . I'm such a bad mom, he asks for the stapler and I tell him it's broken lol.

[lostrn]

Jan 15, 2017 0:07:00 GMT -5 farmvillelover said:

"Five Nights at Freddy's" - I mean wtf is this? A lot of the boys on our block are way into it right now (ages 5 to 7)

Five nights at Freddy's is so creepy, but DS moved on from it quickly at least.

[dochas]

Jan 14, 2017 21:27:34 GMT -5 katfco said:

Shopkins. I know lots of people love them, and yes, they're kind of cute, but they're way too overpriced and overrated for what they are.

Grossery Gang here. The rotten food version of shopkins. I actually don't mind those LOL But my son is a pack rat and saves absolutely everything. Tags from clothing if they have some cool picture on it. Sticky hands that aren't even sticky anymore. The worst has been the garbage he brings home from the 'science club' I signed him up for after school. One week was 2 plastic cups full of colored water and shaving cream and glitter that was somehow supposed to be weather. Since I'm half a hoarder myself I indulge him in all of this nonsense.

[dochas]

Jan 14, 2017 21:39:50 GMT -5 imojoebunny said:

Pokemon cards are my current, "I can't believe I am buying this". At least, with shopkins, I get an actual thing, though Pokemon cards are great for practicing math skills, in multi digit subtraction and addition, so cup is sort of half full.

Do I want to start down this path? I hate Pokemon. My son, of course, loves it. He is drawing his own Pokemon cards now which he gives me as gifts :? . I go from thinking it's really cool that he's making up his own and sad for him that he doesn't have real cards.

And I will never understand why people let their kids start on that youtube crap. Don't do that to yourselves!

[usm]

My kid is in therapy 4 days a week and comes home with junky crap from the treasure chest everyday. He has a memory forever and will attach himself to a broken paper glider and cry when it can't be repaired.

Yo Kai watch coins litter my house, power ranger morphed cards, Pokémon cards. My MIL and H buy him junk from the $ section of the grocery store whenever he goes with them.

[fancynewbeesly]

I am the dissenting argument with shopkins. I don't mind them.

However, my view is colored---Reese had to spend a LOT of time inpatient at CHOP--and things like that, num nums, blind bags were her currency.

She also brought a bookbag to the hospital. The plastic crap easily fit in there. She used it in water play. Playdoh. Orbeez.

It was seriously my sanity. She gave some to her favorite nurses. Traded with kids.

It made our stays SO much easier.

Now the furreal friends are my hatred---they seem so pointless.

[nicbreeful]

Jan 15, 2017 0:07:00 GMT -5 farmvillelover said:

"Five Nights at Freddy's" - I mean wtf is this? A lot of the boys on our block are way into it right now (ages 5 to 7)

Really?? That seems a bit young. Not about how scary it is but with keeping their attention. I bought it, played for like 2 days and then deleted it.

[usm]

Jan 15, 2017 10:03:55 GMT -5 dochas said:

Jan 14, 2017 21:39:50 GMT -5 imojoebunny said:

Pokemon cards are my current, "I can't believe I am buying this". At least, with shopkins, I get an actual thing, though Pokemon cards are great for practicing math skills, in multi digit subtraction and addition, so cup is sort of half full.

Do I want to start down this path? I hate Pokemon. My son, of course, loves it. He is drawing his own Pokemon cards now which he gives me as gifts :? . I go from thinking it's really cool that he's making up his own and sad for him that he doesn't have real cards.

And I will never understand why people let their kids start on that youtube crap. Don't do that to yourselves!

Thankfully we have mangaged to avoid YouTube because my kid wants every infomercial he sees.

I avoided Pokémon cards as long as I could. Then I though it was NBD the Easter bunny brought a $5 pack. Hell no the only thing he asked for for Christmas was freaking $50 boxed set of Pokémon cards. I have yet to find them onsale.

[nicbreeful]

Jan 15, 2017 10:15:06 GMT -5 farmvillelover said:

Jan 15, 2017 10:08:29 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Really?? That seems a bit young. Not about how scary it is but with keeping their attention. I bought it, played for like 2 days and then deleted it.

I mean I don't even know if it's a show (I thought it was lol) or a game or what. But I looked up gifts on amazon for a kid's party next weekend and was like "heh. I'll just give a gift card."

It's an app! I played it on my phone. Though an iPad probably would've been easier.

Basically, you're a night security guard at a toy factory/shop. Freddy and his friends are murderous teddy bears that come alive at night and try to make their way to the security guard station. You are in the station controlling the lights and cameras, which are the only things that stop them from getting closer. So you basically spend your time flipping between cameras, turning on and off lights and trying to conserve the power so you can lock your doors when the teddy bears are righty outside them.

[dochas]

Jan 15, 2017 10:09:47 GMT -5 usm said:

Thankfully we have mangaged to avoid YouTube because my kid wants every infomercial he sees.

I avoided Pokémon cards as long as I could. Then I though it was NBD the Easter bunny brought a $5 pack. Hell no the only thing he asked for for Christmas was freaking $50 boxed set of Pokémon cards. I have yet to find them onsale.

LOL at the informercials. We don't have cable so he really doesn't even see commercials. The only ones he sees are on the Qubo channel and they are all 'as seen on tv' stuff. So he was going to ask Santa for weirdly made pillow pets and off brand glowing race car tracks. Fortunately he remembered the Bionicles. haha!

I think I'll hold off on Pokemon. He got one in a goody bag so I don't know why he isn't asking to go shopping. Next year is first grade so I'm sure peer pressure will lead him to those then!

[TR]

Jan 14, 2017 21:30:15 GMT -5 jamie.1022 said:

Those little tablets that dissolve in water and turn into animal shaped sponges.

These still exist!?!? I used to love those!!

[dochas]

Jan 15, 2017 14:37:17 GMT -5 TR said:

Jan 14, 2017 21:30:15 GMT -5 jamie.1022 said:

Those little tablets that dissolve in water and turn into animal shaped sponges.

These still exist!?!? I used to love those!!

The best thing I can say about these things is that they don't make any noise when they get sucked up into the vacuum cleaner.

[readyin07]

Jan 15, 2017 14:37:17 GMT -5 TR said:

Jan 14, 2017 21:30:15 GMT -5 jamie.1022 said:

Those little tablets that dissolve in water and turn into animal shaped sponges.

These still exist!?!? I used to love those!!

I think I just saw some in the Target $ Spot. They usually have them at the $ Store too.

[CloudBee]

Nerf guns. It's not stupid. But it's way old for him. (3)

He walks right over to them in the toy store, Walmart, Target, etc.

Drives me insane. "When I bigga, please, please?"

[idoinjuly]

Jan 14, 2017 21:39:50 GMT -5 imojoebunny said:

This is why I give my kids allowance. If they waste it on useless junk, then they don't have anything to play with. If they have money, as they do now, being flush with cash from Christmas, the tend to buy more crap. Through the regular year, not so much. When you have to save for 4 or 5 weeks, you are much less likely to buy stuff you don't really want.

Pokemon cards are my current, "I can't believe I am buying this". At least, with shopkins, I get an actual thing, though Pokemon cards are great for practicing math skills, in multi digit subtraction and addition, so cup is sort of half full.

Really?  I might have to get my daughter into this then.  We need some math practice.

[flamingeaux]

Jan 15, 2017 10:03:55 GMT -5 dochas said:

Jan 14, 2017 21:39:50 GMT -5 imojoebunny said:

Pokemon cards are my current, "I can't believe I am buying this". At least, with shopkins, I get an actual thing, though Pokemon cards are great for practicing math skills, in multi digit subtraction and addition, so cup is sort of half full.

Do I want to start down this path? I hate Pokemon. My son, of course, loves it. He is drawing his own Pokemon cards now which he gives me as gifts :? . I go from thinking it's really cool that he's making up his own and sad for him that he doesn't have real cards.

And I will never understand why people let their kids start on that youtube crap. Don't do that to yourselves!

I plan to once my 2 year old is old enough. Sequence and order, addition, subtraction, multiplication, beginning statistics. Some basic scientific concepts such conductivity, as well as an opportunity to teach them how to lose and win graciously, are all skills that you can work on while playing Pokemon. Plus, it's fun, and organizing, maintaining the cards could be a special thing for you and him to do together.

[nsl]

I don't mind Pokemon cards at all, probably because A: they're helping to reinforce math facts for my 3rd grader, and B: my kids are super possessive about their cards and keep them neatly organized in binders.

Shopkins can go straight to hell.

[dochas]

Jan 16, 2017 18:22:08 GMT -5 flamingeaux said:

Jan 15, 2017 10:03:55 GMT -5 dochas said:

I plan to once my 2 year old is old enough. Sequence and order, addition, subtraction, multiplication, beginning statistics. Some basic scientific concepts such conductivity, as well as an opportunity to teach them how to lose and win graciously, are all skills that you can work on while playing Pokemon. Plus, it's fun, and organizing, maintaining the cards could be a special thing for you and him to do together.

Wow - I had no idea. I didn't even know it was a game never mind that you could get all of that out of it. I'll take him shopping with some of his money. Thanks!