Toy Organizer From Target By traceyb22 on - Updated Oct 15, 2011
I bought this organizer a few months to try to contain my sons ever growing collection of toys and books. We had toys in every room our house (still do actually) and lots of small ones with no home...balls, Little People, blocks, cars, books, etc. I thought this would be a great way to store lots of toys. They would have a place to go, but still be easy to see and clean up.
This storage unit has four shelves with colored bins that fit into it. There are 4 large bins and 8 smaller ones and they can be pulled out and moved around. The bins in ours are bright colors, but they also make on with pastel bins. I really like that the bins are open, so that you can see where things are and clean up easily, unless you are really picky about what goes in each bin. I'm not. As long it's not all over my floors, I don't care if the balls are mixed with cars.
I was disappointed when I realized my son would not be able to pull the bins out himself. They are really hard to get in and out once they have toys in them. I think they would work better if there was a little more space between the shelves. He even has a hard time getting toys out sometimes. The space is just too small.
The unit is pretty sturdy. My son's not a climber (yet), but if he does start climbing on them I'd definately want to anchor them to the wall. I don't think they'd tip just from pulling out toys or pulling on the bins, though.
Overall, I'm happy with these shelves. Yes, the design could be a little better, but they get the job done and I have lot fewer toys on my floors to trip over:-)
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Do it Yourself Storage Shelf with Bins - primary colors Purchased at: Target Price: 39.00 on sale
This sounds like a great idea that needs a little tweaking. I would hate for my daughter to not be able to get her toys out and she is a bit of a climber. On the plus side not having everything laying all over the house and rather having it neatly stored in the bins would be a dream come true!
Nothing better than not tripping over toys but as you pointed out, it's too bad that the drawers are a little bit hard to get into. Hopefully the more the drawers are pulled out, the "looser" they'll get for your little one!!
I always wondered if these would work for the kids. Thanks for letting us know the pros and cons of this product.
Believe it or not we have 5 of these units thorough the house! I do like them. Hopefully your son won't climb on them because they are not super strudy, but strudy enough for toys. My son uses two of them to storage his Legos in them!
I've seen these at Target and always wanted them for our playroom but never got around to getting the, We too have toys in everyroom in the house even though we have plenty of places to store them.
The older they get the worse it gets,LOL. My sons books and such has spread into our living area at times.
Awww.... how said that the bins are not as functional as you had hoped. Perhaps you can find something that would work better for your son and use the storage bins for storage of household items, tools, scrapbooking supplies or something as it does sounds like it could be useful for other things.
I have seen these at Target myself. We brought a unit and my son puts in Hot Wheels cars in them. It works great for us.
I have seen this toy organizer before and wondered if it was worth it. I agree with what you said about it needing to be easier for the child to use. Anything that helps keep those little toys in place is helpful lol. Great information!!
These sound like a fairly reasonably priced way to help contain the never-ending clutter. Thanks for the good description.