I mean, if I can listen to Elmo doing the chicken dance 58,120 times...
...each week...
...at a manic pace with fresh batteries and reeeeeaaaaaallllllyyyyy ssssssslllllooooooooooooowwwww because we didn't want to keep replacing the batteries every week....
I can put up with just about anything. I'd feel terrible, honestly. Wouldn't do it.
Ooooooh yes I have! Just about every one we received. Wen my daughter was a baby we lived in a 600 sq ft house and co slept. I HATE noisy, jingle-music, electronic sound effect toys. In a house that small there is nowhere to escape!
I let family know our preference politely and most honored our wishes. One relative took quite a bit of glee about going against our wishes, and blatantly told me, " I'm going to get the noisy stuff anyway. You wouldn't be so mean as to cut the battery wires." I just smiled and cut the battery wires after she left.
My daughter was young enough not to notice or care. By the time she was old enough to notice a new toy might have sounds almost all of our family were on board with the "no noise making toys" thing.
Usually I just postpone buying/putting in fresh batteries, but there was this creepy dancing flower that just wouldn't die. Somehow it landed on the chopping block while I was splitting wood.
Nope, but I do remove batteries or delay replacing them.
My parents just gave DS a musical Elmo birthday card and it is about the most annoying thing I've ever heard, so I told them they could keep it at their house (DS is okay with that).
I have issues with any kind of electronic noise, so we don't have any noisy toys in the house. Should one appear, it finds it's way to Goodwill mighty quick.
Does this mean I'm evil? Maybe. Do I feel bad? Nope.
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