This Christmas my daughter is 5 years old, so this was really the first year she got mostly toys as gifts. Three days later, my husband and I are still dealing with the avalanche of packaging from those toys. She didn't really get a lot, but what she did get were so increadibly over packaged.
On Christmas morning I spent quite a bit of time wrestling with the twist ties, plastic & cardboard trying to free a simple doll from her confinement. While I did so, my daughter bounced up & down in agitated anticipation as we both grew increasingly frustrated with the time & effort needed to open her gift.
The worst was the Lalaloopsy doll. There were so many twist ties, tape, string, rubber bands & plastic it took me a good 15-20 minutes to open.
Once we got everything opened, my saint of a huband spent at least an hour separating all the recyclable parts of the packaging from the parts that couldn't be recycled. Sadly, there were more unrecyleable pieces of packaging than recycleable.
Today we made a vow...next year, we are buying natural toys from small retailers. We've had it with the excessive, unnecessary packaging and really don't want to go through this next year. As our daughter gets older and her toy choices get more complicated, we assume the packaging and disposale issue will only get worse.
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