Description: A disease that afflicts adults once they have children. Symptoms include: perpetually trolling the Internet and specialty toy shops for unusual and amazing toys. Such toys are not really for the adult's offspring, but are really for the adult. The adult, of course, will never admit this and even when confronted with the credit card statement, will maintain that the toys are for the kid(s) and justify them that way. The illness has severe flareups in the holiday season.
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My friends? I? I have toybuyitis. *hangs head in shame*
*whines*
It's a DISEASE, see. So It's not really my FAULT. It's the DISEASE. I just can't help myself.
And just LOOK at him. He's so cute how can you NOT buy toys?
Like this and this and this and this and this ?
Will SOMEBODY please hide my debit card?
28 comments:
Drop 'n go Emma... HAAAAA!!! I love that one!
I don't even have a kid yet (nor am I expecting one any time soon), but I bought a Wii on Black Friday. And, yes, I honestly used my future kids as my excuse. Here's hoping they like video games!
Did you really buy that first one? If so, I love you... really I do.
And THANK YOU. I was looking for something for G and I think the rocket will fit the bill!
i'm having the grownup version of that disease.
on etsy.
I didn't know it had a name, this disease that I TOTALLY have too!
Oh how I have this! I just didn't know it...
I keep looking at all the adorable toys and desperately want to buy them but the Damn Emos are all 'we are TEENAGERS and we don't want no damn Barbie Townhouse or play kitchen or adorable baby doll'
And I am sad.
Toybuyitis can be wonderful, if you can afford it. Lets you relive your childhood, and buy those things that Mom didn't get you when you were little.
I have found that a really excellent cure is to have a kid that is SOOO not impressed with what you think is the greatest toy ever. Mr. Husband hasn't bought Alexis a toy in months after she completely cured him a year ago.
I'm still infected, though. I just wish I could figure out a way to make this robot all about Alexis.
Won't work. You'll just find that other hidden credit card...
Ellie
!! That room is the color of vanilla!! You were being literal!!
Cure for toybuyitis: Second kids. I'm so burned out on toys after suffering through the disease with my daughter that my son gets nothing but hand-me-downs.
The Super Slam Basketball is so cool - but that chicken thing is creepy.
Ellie's right. You have to CANCEL the debit card. It's not like you don't have the number and the expiration date and the CVV code memorized. You'd just type them in at the online checkout without even caring where we hid the card.
Anonymous has a point, too. (I hate saying that, since she won the Green Beans giveaway, but I have to give her props): Second kids help with your affliction.
Girl, that's what grandparents are for! To buy the expensive and ridiculous! Those ARE some great toys, though. :)
Luckily we have a rule that after Christmas lists go out we can't buy stuff on the lists. And since most of the toys I would buy AJU5 are on the list, I can't spend money on her (other than what I already have). But I bet I will get it after Christmas!
Is this what I have to look forward to?? WOO HOO!
I'm totally there. And it's not just at Christmas...it's all the time. I see things and feel COMPELLED to buy them for Sasha. I'm the cheapest person on Earth, but for Sasha? I'd go broke happily.
Meanwhile, the kids happy with old shoeboxes and a box of Crayolas.
Hi I'm Lindsey and I'm an addict too! HA!
I totally feel your pain.
All those gifts are great. Anything that lays eggs is a MUST have. And anything with aliens. Totally cool.
I cannot help you.
I am similarly afflicted.
It would be like the blind leading the blind, except in this case it would be the woman with the recycle bin perpetually overloaded with discarded Amazon.com boxes leading same.
Frick.
Why did I click that first link?
Now I want Drop and Go Emma.
The rocket looks so cool. I am horrible. I always said I wasn't going to buy all this stuff and some how my house is full of toys. I have to keep telling myself she is set for Christmas, she is set for Christmas. I am doing my best to not be tempted.
Have you been to Etsy? Cause they've got some cracking shiz.
These toys are educational. That is how I justify my toybuyitis.
I would totally buy him toys. He is so darn cute.
I'm sorry, but Drop 'N Go Emma seems like a bad influence in the potty training department.
Chick, you are DOOMED. I was, now you are. DOOMED, I say.
It's only fair.
I totally had that disease too. I love nice toys. Love them! And then I use the excuse that "I'll use them for work". yah, right.
I have been mostly cured due to a different disease "trip-itis" (when you keep tripping over the @#$$@%^ toys b/c they are reproducing exponentially. Oh yeah, and all the kids play with are the boxes.
We have that disease, too. Especially Justin. Just ask Gavin about the eleventy-hundred Thomas trains he barely plays with anymore.
While we don't have that exact little play garage (ours is the Little People one), I give it a way big thumbs-up. Both my kids play with ours constantly.
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