I went to Toys R Us today to get some presents for my daughters for Christmas.  Well, let’s just say the ambiance was a little off.  It was like a ghost town in there.  I also felt a little lost, it wasn’t because there is too much stuff in that place, no that wasn’t it.  It’s hard to see how the place is organized.  I was looking for a “Skip-It.”  It’s basically a jumprope type toy that attaches to an ankle while you swing it around and it rolls along the ground, you jump over it when it passes by the opposite leg.  In case you’ve never seen one.

Well, it wasn’t in the aisle with the pogo sticks or jumpropes.  I made a mistake by asking someone, they didn’t know.  The last time and the time before that I have been in the Tacoma Toys R Us no one knew where anything was.  I guess the layout of the store is confusing to them as well.  Basically, the way I see it is if you do not know the “fad” the toy was fashioned after or the “spokesperson/thing” the toy was marketed by you are S.O.L my friend.  Other than the bike section nothing really seems to have a section that makes sense anymore.  There is the board game section but not many people seem to stop there, no one buys those things anymore (except me).

There is an age appropriate section for toddelrs which makes sense but when you get past that it’s Bratz, Hannah Montana, High School Musical…all trends and fads.  I missed the Barbie section completely I was so distracted by all of the other junk.  My girls fall for those trends but they don’t last long, these girls are not the norm.  They don’t go “Ga Ga” over toys.  They watch TV but they don’t beg for toys like I seem to remember doing as a kid.  Thus, making it nearly impossible to find something to buy them at Toys R Us or “Trends and Highly Marketed Items R Us” as I like to call it. 

Over the past few years I have bought the girls all of the classics that once loved, a Radio Flyer Trike, Radio Flyer Wagon,  Barbie Malibu Beach House, Lite Bright, Bouncing Horse, Bozo Bop Bag, Magnetic Gyro Wheel, Slinky, Colorforms, Etch-A-Sketch, Shrinky Dinks, and Connect Four.

A lot of the toys I grew up on are sadly no longer found at Toys R Us.  Although, they are still sold online.  It’s too bad Toys R Us can’t seem to stock some of the classics that I loved so much, I know if I still have interst others would as well.

In the meantime, I am left to rifle through aisle after aisle of trendy garbage.  I’m glad my girls don’t fall for that junk.  Hopefully they will always go thier own way and not be crowd followers.

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