Accumulating "stuff"

T's things are slowly taking over the entire apartment, every inch and every corner of it. He is barely 7 months and his toys are already more than my handbags.

Thanks to a friend, i received a wake-up call today. She shared this article on how parents can control this state of "stuff accumulation". Last thing i want is for T to feel a sense of entitlement and think that mom and dad can serve everything up on a silver platter. So from here on out, things are gonna be different in this household.

1. Be creative. How to make use of things that are already at home? How to make more out of the toys he already has?
2. Go out more often, experience new things.
3. Create an exchange program. Trade toys with other mommies.
4. Organise more play dates so he can play with other people's toys.
5. Hold back on buying new toys. Ask and ask again, DOES HE NEED THIS? WILL HE BE STUPID IF HE DOESN'T PLAY WITH IT?
6. Accept hand-me-downs. gimme gimme gimme!

It's not just money we'll be saving, this will also do good to the planet.