Life with Twins and the effects

Having twins is always a surprise. Not because now you have to change twice as many dippers and twice as much crying.  It really is you have to buy 2 - 4 times as much stuff.  This is especially true if both parents plan to work.

My twins are in kindergarten and as of today we have bought 10 car seats, 4 car seat bases, and 4 strollers and we got two others for free.  That is just to move them from place to place.

Car seats are a hard thing to get ride of.  The official stance is don't buy a used car seat because you don't know if they have been in a crash.  The other things about car seats are they expire.  They have a life I think of about 5-8 years. Which is roughly 2 kids back to back.

You have three choices

• Sell it (very hard) maybe to friends
• Gift it
• Take to recycle center (target takes them)

Lets move on to sleeping.  They have cribs, travel cribs, blankets, baby bumps.  Just to name a new.  Luckily for us we bought convertible cribs and are still use them in their full size form.

I believe we had 4 Travel cribs at the grandparents houses and they are still there. These should be sold and we also have 6 cots that we still use regularly.

The toys these kids get through the first 6 or so years is crazy.  So many books. So many matching games.  Not include all the plastic toy of he week they get at birthdays.

Books are easy. These can be donated. As long as the games are in good condition they can be sold or donated.  The other toys. Well depending on the condition it look for some to pass on and enjoy.

Clothes.  As the kids have gotten bigger we have saved there clothes by size and "gender"  this has made it easier to donate/sell/give away.  I haven't gotten into much selling of the clothes mostly because it seems like tons of work for little gain, but I know people make business out of doing this. 

Some days I look at our playroom and really feel like we should be a minimalist family.